page_title: Eduard Roschmann
section_title: War crimes in Latvia
hierarchical_section_title: Eduard Roschmann / War crimes in Latvia
caption_attribution_description: English: This map shows the boundaries of the Riga ghetto. It was published in Tēvjia, a Latvian newspaper under Nazi control.
context_page_description: Eduard Roschmann was an Austrian Nazi SS-Obersturmführer and commandant of the Riga ghetto during 1943. He was responsible for numerous murders and other atrocities. As a result of a fictionalised portrayal in the novel The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth and its subsequent film adaptation, Roschmann came to be known as the "Butcher of Riga".
context_section_description: Within the SS Roschmann was assigned to the Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst), often referred to by its German initials SD. Following the German occupation of Latvia in the Second World War, the SD established a presence in Latvia with the objective of killing all the Jews in the country. To this end, the SD established the Riga ghetto.
caption: Map of the Riga ghetto, as published in a Nazi-controlled newspaper in Riga in 1941.
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