People from Courland - Herberts Cukurs, Magnus, Duke of Holstein, Mamert Stankiewicz, Princess Wilhelmine, Duchess of Sagan, Wessel Freytag V (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Herberts Cukurs, Magnus, Duke of Holstein, Mamert Stankiewicz, Princess Wilhelmine, Duchess of Sagan, Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven, Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler, Dorothea von Medem, Eduard Totleben, Balys Dvarionas, Max Weinreich, Herman Rosenthal, Karl Davydov, Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer, Konstantin Danzas, James Martin Eder, J nis Rudzutaks, Lilia Estrin Dallin, Mirdza empe, Carl Schmidt, Paul Schiemann, Zelig Kalmanovich, Woldemar Kernig, Eduard von Keyserling, Oswald Schmiedeberg, Adolph Strumpell, Fyodor Petrovich Pahlen, Yanka Maur, Oswald Kulpe, Leonas Bistras, August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, Hugo K rlis Grotuss, Fred Rebell, Pyotr Bestuzhev, Jacob Klein, Karl Eichwald, Alexander Keyserling, Boris Brutskus, Lizete Iesmi a-Mihelsone, Eduard Tisse, Paul Einhorn, Eduard Schmidt von der Launitz, Wilhelm Kettler, Uga Skulme, Otto August Rosenberger, Kri j nis Valdem rs, Mi elis Valters, Nicolaus Kleinenberg, L ga Purmale, Jonas vedas, Alexander of Courland. Excerpt: Herberts Cukurs (May 17, 1900, in Liep ja, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire - February 23, 1965, in Montevideo, Uruguay) was a Latvian aviator. He was a member of the notorious Arajs Kommando and was involved in murders of Latvian Jews as part of the Holocaust but he never stood trial. There are eyewitness accounts linking Cukurs to war crimes. He was assassinated by Mossad agents in 1965. As a result of actions during the occupation of Latvia from 1941 to 1944, Cukurs became known as the "Butcher of Riga." As a pioneering long-distance pilot, he won national acclaim for his international solo flights in the 1930s (Latvia-Gambia and Riga-Tokyo). He was awarded the Harmon Trophy for Latvia in 1933. Cukurs built at least 3 planes of his own design. In 1937 he made a 45,000-kilometre (24,000 nmi; 28,000 mi) tour visiting Japan, China, ...