Schiessl, C.. Alleged Nazi Collaborators in the United States after World War II, Lexington Books, 2016, ISBN: 9781498529419. LINK
As we investigate scholarly representation of the Latvian Legion, we continue to encounter the case of Vilis Hāzners as a microcosm of war crimes allegations against Latvians and Latvian Legion Waffen-SS units in WWII.
A recent book examining the Holocaust in Latvia and touching on the Hāzners case is Christoph Schiessl's Alleged Nazi Collaborators in the United States after World War II (March, 2016).
Unlike other books we have analyzed for their historical treatment of the Latvian Legion and its officers and members, Alleged Nazi Collaborators is an academic work, the publication of his doctoral thesis1. In our own study of the Soviet legacy in central/eastern Europe, we have encountered dissertations and similar which have come to be regarded as seminal works in their field, such as
- William J.H. Hough III's "The Annexation of the Baltic States and its Effect Upon the Development of Law Prohibiting the Forcible Seizure of Territory." New York Law School Journal of International and Comparative Law, Winter, 1985
- Charles King's "The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture." Hoover Institution Press, 1999.
We hoped Schiessel's thesis built on this tradition of excellence.
| 1 | "The Search for Nazi Collaborators in the United States", dissertation submitted to the Graduate School of Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (2009). |