The Russians invaded and occupied Latvia in 1940 and the Germans invaded it a year later.

After the Soviet Union occupied Latvia in 1940, Mārtiņš Hartmanis was arrested by Soviets and died in a prison.

The Latvian nationalists sought assistance from the Estonian army which had been occupying northern Latvia since earlier that year.

He stayed in Latvia until 1944 when it became obvious that after the war the USSR would again occupy Latvia.

Kaiserwald was built in March, 1943, during the period that the German army occupied Latvia.

The Soviet Union occupied Latvia in 1940, and it enumerated people there by ethnicity from 1959 to 1989.

When the German Army occupied Latvia, they used all possible resources to add to their war machine.

The four Latvian aircraft had not been delivered when the Soviet Union occupied Latvia in 1940 and were retained by Germany.

Did the Soviet Union occupy Latvia?

After the Second World War, the Soviet Union again occupied Latvia, this time from 1944 to 1990.