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131.; Lt.;Julijs Daugavietis
, TirluebnarltNGA. An aviation officer. Be arrived in Kurzeme in
the eg g of April 1945 from Berlin with special instructions
from SS Yagdverband Oat Headquarters. Until the capitulation he
was the assistant to VI lankava, the director of the SS Yagdverband
Ost, Latvian Operatiar-STEff:—
132. Sgt.)Voldemarlenitis
From the neighborhood of Madona. In the fall of 1944 was in the
Gen. Kurela group, Lt. Rubena's Battalion, the heid seargeant of
the 3 Company
Participated in Lt. RubenaBattalion's fight against the Germans.
After the dispersal of the It. Rubena Battalion in Nov. 18, 194h,
he lived illegally in the woods with some Kurelist group near Ugiles.
In the beginning of 1945, he was imprisoned by,the Ventspils SD. In •
connection with the intervention of a PPS 'worker, he was freed and
put in the post of chief of the "russian partisan activity suppression
unit" in Ugales Rayon. At first he was with the SD and later with
the Ventspils district police. He worked with the PPS. In April
19h5, he functioned as liaison officer between the PPS and some ..! 7
Kurelist group which was operating together with a Russian partisan .
organization known as the "Sarkana Bulta" (Red Arrow). After the
capitulation, he found himself in the "Filteration" camp in Talsas, t'
where he,-was pointed out as the leader of the Red Partisan Suppression
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Uni and was imprisoned.
133.( ft° Vaivars ..
• Head forester in Zlekas. In 1941, before the German Occupation, was
Active as a National Partisan. After the German occupation commanded
a Latvian "pagaizsardtibas" unit in Ventspils district under company
cimmander Karla Lobes. During German Occupation was head forester of
2:Jokes. In May 8, 1945, tried to escape to Sweden in a boat from
Ventspils but the tug-boat "Rota" returned him to Ventspils. On the
road from Ventspils to Zleka he was detained by the Russians, and
placed in the "filteration" camp, from where he was sent to Moscow
' to do reconstruction work. In the fall of 1945, he wrote from there, that
due to his good knowledge of Russian, he was elevated to brigadier
and hoped to be able to return home bytthe end of the year. His friend
Vilis Zvanitajs received word in Sweden in 1947 that he had returned .
and was living under a different mane in Kurzeme.
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.134. Sasa (Aleksandrs?)A Dreimanis , --....:s.:...
Half-brother of head forester Vaivars. In May 8, 1945, he tried to
escape to Sweden by a boat from Ventspils, but was turned back to
Ventspils by the tug-boat "Rota". May 12, he got together with the
"PPS" workers in the Zleka command, and after that Worked as a PPS
liaison officer. In the fall of 1945, he worked as a forester of
the Bolshevik land reform in Varves county, Ventspils district.