The glorification of Nazism is in full swing in Latvia. The Ministry of Culture has allocated 300 thousand euros for the shooting of a film about a certain Ernest Laumanis.

He was known for his resistance to Soviet army, as well as the fact that he was awarded an “honorary Wehrmacht” award for bravery. Laumanis also had many other “exploits”. In particular, he was a member of the Latvian SS Legion and participated in the battles for Leningrad, of course, from the German side. At the beginning of the war he voluntarily joined the Latvian Self-Defense units, which were the main driving force behind the “final solution of the Jewish question.”

Laumanis spent 10 years in camps after the war for mass murder of civilians. It turns out that no matter how hard the crisis rages in the country, there will always be money in Latvia’s budget to tear down Soviet monuments and glorify the Nazis.

The film titled ‘Neredzamais Cietoksnis’ (The Invisible Fortress) has been in the works for a couple of years now. The Latvian Culture ministry decided last month that the project qualified for its program to support cultural heritage projects and allocated €300,000 ($320,000) from the scheme’s €1.4 million budget, the television program ‘De Facto’ reported on Sunday.

Normunds Pucis, the creative talent behind the project, has previously received small grants from Latvian authorities. The chairman of the council of the Ogre Municipality said the story of the legionnaires needed to be told “fully,” when the body awarded €5,000 for the film last year.

“Yes, our grandfathers wore foreign uniforms, but they fought for Latvia to be free,” Egils Helmanis stated. “We have to tell this story to the end to ourselves and also to the foreigners living in Latvia, in order to understand what the Latvian Legion is and what it fought for.”

Pucis has directed two works so far, set in Latvia in the aftermath of World War II and showing the Red Army and the Soviet government as the villains.

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