A huge group of German troops held out in western Latvia until the final capitulation of the Third Reich. Soviet soldiers jokingly called it a “camp for armed POWs”. By noon on April 25, 1945, the Red ...

Trapped in the Courland Pocket during the final phase of the Eastern Front, German forces faced relentless Soviet armored assaults in brutal winter conditions. Among the defenders was Major Sepp ...

In the town of Kuzhi, the local Jews were accused of hiding German troops in their homes prior to a German attack on that town. The First World War was a time of tragedy, trial and tribulation for ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. A Journey to Nowhere: Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Courland, by Jean-Paul Kauffmann, ...