The National Archives of Latvia has published a comprehensive biographical dictionary, “The Latvian Police, 1918–1940: Biographies of Senior and Middle-Ranking Officers." The book was compiled by Dr. Ēriks Jēkabsons and Dr. Valters Ščerbinskis. The largest part of the publication consists of 426 biographies of senior and middle-ranking Latvian state police officers, gathering information on a largely previously unknown group of police officials. It covers the period from the establishment of…
The National Archives of Latvia has published a comprehensive biographical dictionary, “The Latvian Police, 1918–1940: Biographies of Senior and Middle-Ranking Officers." The book was compiled by Dr. Ēriks Jēkabsons and Dr. Valters Ščerbinskis. The largest part of the publication consists of 426 biographies of senior and middle-ranking Latvian state police officers, gathering information on a largely previously unknown group of police officials. It covers the period from the establishment of the Latvian state to the liquidation of police institutions under the Soviet occupation in 1940. The biographies are based on personnel files held in the Latvian State Historical Archives of the National Archives of Latvia. The publication features a…
