Herberts cukurs biography of william
A highly controversial musical production honoring the memory of Latvian aviator and Nazi war criminal Herberts Cukurs.
Herberts Albert Cukurs (– 23 February ) was a Latvian aviator and Nazi collaborator.!
Herberts Cukurs
Latvian aviator and Nazi war criminal (1900–1965)
Herberts Albert Cukurs (17 May 1900 – 23 February 1965) was a Latvian aviator and Nazi collaborator.
He served as the deputy commander of the Arajs Kommando, a collaborationist unit that carried out the largest mass murders of Latvian Jews during the Holocaust.[1][2] Although Cukurs never stood trial, the accounts of multiple Holocaust survivors, including Zelma Shepshelovitz, credibly link him to personally supervising[3] and committing war crimes and crimes against humanity for the duration of the German occupation of Latvia.[4][5][6] His crimes included shooting Jewish children and babies in captivity,[7] burning Jews alive,[8] and sexually assaulting Jewish women.[8]
Two decades after World War II, Cukurs was identified in Brazil by a Holocaust survivor, who attempted to alert the authorities after seeing Cukurs' face