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the share-front of Riga at Lielupe under the leadership of R. Sternberg.
In the fall of 1944, all three brothers prepared themselves for a par-
tie= life in the Iaunpiebalgas forest, building bunkers for their
families and cattle. PPS sent them a radio set and an operator. Neither
dUring the time of Kurzemes Prison nor after the capitulation was any-
thing heard of their fate.
101. Edgard &mania
See No. 97.
102. Raimondg(Silarajs
Was - -a student of 3Arohitecture at the Latvian University in the same.
class as JANSON". During the German Occupation, was in the SD
service. In thefall of 1944, he WAS invited by the Germans to assist
in organizing the SS lagOverband Ostia the Latvian sector. In September
1944, he and about 30 Latvians went to Berlin for this purpose. He
appeared in Kuria= in the beginning of Octber 1944 with the SS •
Yagdverband Oat Latvian Operational Staff as the director of the political
sedtion with rank of lieutenant. About November 1944, he arrived in
Danzig, together with a Latvian unit that was scheduled to be dropped
behind Russian lines at Vidzeme or Latgale at the jump-training school.
Here, during a drunken brawl, he was shot :nd killed by some Estonian. .
103. (L44Augis
A fUrloughed lieutenant of the Latvian Army. He was one of the first to
finish the Latvian War College. He was the owner of a Water:Mill in
Rdales pagasta (county) and was the commander of the Edales Aizsarg
(Militia). He was the :director of the PPS organized pargisan groups in
Edale. (According to the Plan he was considered the Commander of the
Southern* part of the Ventspils district.) He sheltered and fed a great
nuMber of refugees in his Mill. After the capitulation, he was arrested
for treason and sent to Russia. In the fill of 1945, he wrote from
L7 J that he hoped to be able to retven the beginning of
winter.
104. JarLi
Was the manager of
in Zuru pagasta (county) in Ventspils district in 1944J 1945. (His
father had escaped to Sweden in 1944). In 1941, he was arrested by
-. the Russians and was in Riga Central Prison, when the Germans occupied
Riga." The cell in arbdch he wae Imprisoned was the only. one that
escaped getting shot when the Russians fled. He helped the PPS organize
a partisan group in Zurupagast. In the spring of 1945, he declined
leadership, hoping the Russians would permit him to live; in this non-.'
mention, he strove to maintain good relations with the local communiste.
After the capitulation, he was arrested by the Russians. (News item from
Latvian Government ,Press: The Oovefnment has discovered alp.,Orinvalds
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