Konrads Kalejs was a volunteer and officer of the SD Sonderkommando, his division participated actively in executions of the Jews and punitive actions against the peaceful population. Because of the concealment of his Nazi past, Konrads Kalejs was deprived of the citizenship and deported from the USA, then forced out of Canada. At present he lives in Australia. Some quotes of the speeches during the discussion in the parliament follow. Representatives of the Jewish nation also committed crimes under different banners.
Stateless persons are mostly persons belonging to national minorities.
Some of them were even born in Latvia. After that he became an officer in the Soviet Army, then in the Russian Army and came back to Latvia after demobilization in 1995. In 2004 he will be able to start naturalization and become the citizen of Latvia. On November 5, a memorial in honour of the Latvian SS-Waffen legion's soldiers was opened in Lestene. The wheel of naturalization is turning.