[Above: Latvian Waffen-SS volunteer in winter gear, circa 1943.]

[Above: Latvian volunteers in the summer of 1943 manning an artillery piece.]

[Above: Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler visiting Latvian SS artillery units on the Narva River. In 1944 the Latvian SS would see terrible fighting in the same area.]

[Above: This Latvian SS volunteer sends a signal using a Walther LP flare gun.]

[Above: A Latvian Waffen-SS volunteer preparing horse meat to feed the animals of a canine field detachment.]

[Above: Staff of 19th SS Grenadier Division 2nd Latvian. Seen here are: Valdemars Skaistlauks, Rudolfs Bangerskis, Bruno Streckenbach and Arturs Silgailis.]

[Above: Voldemars Veiss (right) 2nd in command for 2. Lettische SS-Freiwilligen Brigade which became 19. Waffen Grenadier Division der SS (lettische Nr 2) in January 1944, briefs his troops in September 1943.]

[Above: Some of the guys from the picture above.]

[Above: Latvian volunteers with the Luftwaffe, from the newspaper 'Laikmets', September 8, 1944 (No. 37)]

[Above: Latvian volunteers with the Luftwaffe, seen here in front of a flaq 3.7 cm, from the newspaper 'Era', September 8, 1944, No. 37]

[Above: Latvian Waffen-SS captured by the British on May 2, 1945.]

[Above: Constantine Lozhenitsyn, a longtime veteran of the Latvian army. He was killed fighting on Germany's side against communism.]

[Above: Constantine Lozhenitsyn]

[Above: The funeral of Constantine Lozhenitsyn]

[Above: The funeral of Constantine Lozhenitsyn]

[Above: The funeral of Constantine Lozhenitsyn]

[Above: The funeral of Constantine Lozhenitsyn]

[Above: The funeral of Constantine Lozhenitsyn]