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30 Latviešu kaŗavīrs .., 271. lpp.
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Juris Pavlovičs
No Man’s Land: The Change of Occupying Powers
in the Eastern Part of the District of Riga
(28 June – 6 July 1941)
Summary
During the change of occupying powers in Latvia in the summer of 1941 almost every region
and district experienced this process in a slightly different way. Such quite usual wartime
factor as lack of information sometimes led to totally unexpected consequences. The subject
of this article is the illusion of no man’s land that existed among the population of the district
of Riga for more than a week. The Wehrmacht, having reached Riga on 1 July stopped
there till 5 July because of logistical problems. As a result, people in the area that lay about
50 km to the east of Riga concluded that the German forces should arrive in the next few
hours and that there was no need to organise themselves or to restore the institutions of local
self-government. In addition, slight presence of the Red army was felt till 4 July creating fear
of a Soviet counter-attack and possible retribution. Thus the only partisan activities in the
above area during this period were carried out by newly demobilised soldiers of the former
Latvian army who gathered themselves into armed squads of 50–100 men.
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