MILITARY PERSONNEL

Herberts Cukurs

1900 - 1965

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Herberts Albert Cukurs (17 May 1900 – 23 February 1965) was a Latvian aviator and Nazi collaborator. He served as the deputy commander of the Arajs Kommando, a collaborationist unit that carried out the largest mass murders of Latvian Jews during the Holocaust. Although Cukurs never stood trial, the accounts of multiple Holocaust survivors, including Zelma Shepshelovitz, credibly link him to personally supervising and committing war crimes and crimes against humanity for the duration of the German occupation of Latvia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herberts Cukurs has received more than 1,131,986 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Herberts Cukurs is the 735th most popular military personnel (up from 1,083rd in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Latvia (up from 66th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Latvian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Herberts Cukurs ranks 735 out of 2,058. Before him are Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquess of Santa Cruz, Osman Pazvantoğlu, Georgios Karaiskakis, Yitzhak Hofi, Köten, and Minamoto no Yorimasa. After him are Osami Nagano, Boris Sheremetev, Herbert Kappler, Artur Phleps, Iosif Gurko, and Artabazos II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Herberts Cukurs ranks 82. Before him are Robert Desnos, George Uhlenbeck, Marc Allégret, Eduardo De Filippo, Joseph Needham, and Herbert Bayer. After him are Ernst Neufert, Kiyoo Kanda, Hassan Fathy, Bluma Zeigarnik, Otto Braun, and Ernst Busch. Among people deceased in 1965, Herberts Cukurs ranks 49. Before him are Bernard Baruch, Henry A. Wallace, Chen Cheng, Hayato Ikeda, Jesse Douglas, and Georges Gurvitch. After him are Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, Taimur bin Feisal, Porfirio Rubirosa, Carl Værnet, Otozō Yamada, and William M. Branham.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Herberts Cukurs ranks 32 out of 323. Before him are Frederick Casimir Kettler (1650), Pauline Therese of Württemberg (1800), Frederick William, Duke of Courland (1692), Jānis Čakste (1859), Pēteris Vasks (1946), and Guntis Ulmanis (1939). After him are Valdis Zatlers (1955), Wilhelm Kettler (1574), Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751), Jukums Vācietis (1873), Oswald Külpe (1862), and Laimdota Straujuma (1951).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Latvia

Among military personnels born in Latvia, Herberts Cukurs ranks 2. Before him are Wolfgang Lüth (1913). After him are Jukums Vācietis (1873), Yevgeny Miller (1867), Jānis Balodis (1881), and Hans-Diedrich von Tiesenhausen (1913).

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