Eduard Roschmann - War Crimes in Latvia

War Crimes in Latvia

Starting from January 1941 Roschmann worked in at the Central Reich Security Office, or RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt). Within RSHA, Roschmann worked in the Security Service, or SD (Sicherheitsdienst). Later, he worked in SD department IV, Gestapo with the commander of the security police and SD (Kommander der Sicherheitsdienst und SD, or KdS) in Latvia.

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 World War II, 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.