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About Herberts Cukurs: The Hunt For The Latvian Nazi Collaborator

Explore how Israeli secret service agents tracked down and executed Nazi war criminal Herbert Cukurs in South America. Infamously known as the "Hangman of Riga," Cukurs played a role in the deaths of over 30,000 Latvian Jews. A Mossad agent, operating under the alias "Anton Kunzle," shot him in a secluded suburb of Montevideo, Uruguay.

Herberts Cukurs: The Hunt For The Latvian Nazi Collaborator is presented by Real History. Its listed runtime is 42 minutes. The source link and publisher attribution are provided with the embedded film.

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Herberts Cukurs: The Hunt For The Latvian Nazi Collaborator
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42 minutes
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English
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Real History

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