Pencil sketch of a Nazi by Dr K Prabhakar Rao

HERBERT CUCURS. LATVIAN NAZI

 Herberts Cukurs (17 May 1900 in Liepāja, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire – 23 February 1965 in Shangrilá, Uruguay) was a Latvian aviator.[1] He was a member of the Arajs Kommando which was involved in the mass murder of Latvian Jews as part of the Holocaust but he never stood trial, though there are eyewitness accounts linking Cukurs to war crimes.He was assassinated by operatives of the Israeli intelligence service (Mossad) in 1965.The Mossad agent Künzle, who killed Cukurs, and the journalist Gad Shimron wrote a book The Death of the Executioner of Riga in which they called Cukurs the "Butcher of Riga", and the term was later picked up by several sources.