The 'Final Solution' in Riga
Exploitation and Annihilation, 1941-1944

Ghetto, forced labor camp, concentration camp: All of the elements of the National Socialists' policies of annihilation were to be found in Riga. This first analysis of the Riga ghetto and the nearby camps of Salaspils and Jungfernhof addresses all aspects of German occupation policy during the Second World War.

He has published numerous articles about the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and co-edited Der Dienstkalender Heinrich Himmlers 1941/42 (1999) and Die Gestapo nach 1945: Karrieren, Konflikte, Konstruktionen (with Klaus-Michael Mallmann, 2009), as well as Besatzungspolitik und Massenmord: Die Einsatzgruppe D in der sudlichen Sowjetunion 1941-1943 (2003). Peter Klein, a Berlin-based historian, consultant, and researcher affiliated with the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture, has published widely on the Holocaust and German occupation in various parts of central and eastern Europe during the Second World War. Klein was the editor of Die Einsatzgruppen in der besetzten Sowjetunion 1941/1942 (1997) and a co-editor of Der Dienstkalender Heinrich Himmlers 1941/42 (1999). He is the author of "Gettoverwaltung Litzmannstadt" (2009). Ray Brandon is a freelance translator, historian, and researcher based in Berlin. A former editor at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, English Edition, he is co-editor, with Wendy Lower, of The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization.

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Introduction
Chapter 1. Latvia Caught between Two Dictatorships
Chapter 2.Operation Barbarossa: Preparations for the German Attack on the Soviet Union
Chapter 3. From the Pogroms to the Establishment of the Ghetto
Chapter 4. Securing German Rule in Occupied Riga: The Period of the Large Ghetto for Latvian Jews
Chapter 5. Murder on a Massive Scale: The Murder of the Ghetto's Latvian Jews
Chapter 6. In Search of Territories for the
Final SolutionA": The Road to Riga as a Final Destination for Deportations
Chapter 7. Plans for the Salaspils Camp
Chapter 8. The Deportation of German Jews to Riga
Chapter 9. The Salaspils Camp: A Detention Center with Many Functions
Chapter 10. German Jews Build Salaspils: December 1941-August 1942
Excursus I: SS Major Rudolf Lange and the Wannsee Conference
Chapter 11. The Latvian Labor Market and the Compulsory Deployment of Jews in Riga
Chapter 12. The Utilization of Jewish Assets and the Issue of Ghetto Administration
Chapter 13. Ghetto Life and Forced Labor in Riga in the Spring of 1942
Chapter 14. The Turning Point: Operation Dunamunde at Jungfernhof and in the
Ghetto for Reich JewsA"
Chapter 15. Forced Labor and Annihilation in County Commissariat Riga City
Chapter 16. Failed Resistance: The Tin Square Operation, October 1942
Chapter 17. Annihilation Instead of Forced Labor: Himmler's Struggle against Production Constraints and Armaments Interests in General Commissariat Latvia
Chapter 18. Concentration Camp Kaiserwald and the Barrackings
Excursus II: SS Second Lieutenant Fritz Scherwitz, The Commander at Lenta: A Biographical Sketch
Chapter 19. The Decommissioning of Concentration Camp Kaiserwald, Evacuation, and Liberation
Chapter 20. A New Start and the Search for Justice
Chapter 21. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index