...The advent of the era of the “new order” in Riga certainly had to be celebrated with a pogrom against the Jews. No, it was, of course, possible to shoot, for example, the wounded Red Army soldiers left in the university clinic, thereby marking the victory of the Wehrmacht and the Latvian partisans, but that would have been somehow petty and uninteresting. And who needed them - half-dead, helpless people in rotting bandages, exhausted from thirst and hunger. Yes, the Nazis needed, oh how the Nazis needed, a Jewish pogrom in Riga, “liberated from Bolshevik tyranny.” But it was not easy to move the people of Riga to him. This is where Victor Arais and his fellows came in handy... The book by Riga resident Maxim Margolin talks about the Nazi extermination of the Jews of Latvia and the role that Latvian nationalists played in this crime.