What nationality were the killing squad who helped murder 100,000 people mainly from Vilnius?
Ponary massacre The Ponary massacre (Polish: "zbrodnia w Ponarach" ) was the mass murder of up to 100,000 people by German SD, SS and Lithuanian Nazi collaborators, such as the Ypatingasis būrys units,
Robert Eideman Robert Eideman (Latvian: "Roberts Eidemanis" ) (1895 – June 12, 1937) was an ethnic Latvian Soviet Komkor, writer and poet. He was born in Lejasciems, Gulbene Municipality in modern-day Latvia. He fought in World War I in the Imperial Russian Army and the Russian Civil War on the side of the Soviet Red Army. He was a member of the Russian Constituent Assembly of 1918. He was one of the defendants in the Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization alongside Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky. He was executed in Moscow. After the death of Joseph Stalin, he was rehabilitated.