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A women wears a yellow star during the annual event to commemorate the Latvian Waffen-SS unit, also known as the Legionnaires, during the Remembrance Day of the Latvian legionnaires in Riga, Latvia. Soldiers of the Latvian Legion were part of the notorious German Nazi Waffen-SS during World War Two.
- Categories: Human Interest
- Location: Riga, Latvia
- Event date: 16.03.2023
- Date published: 16.03.2023
- Author: Stringer
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 4108x2831px, 9.3Mb
- Job-ID: 7d1bfdee4c14d157