Strazde Manor Infrastructure
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Strazde Manor is located on the side of the Riga-Ventspils highway and was the headquarters of General Jānis Kurelis' group from September 29 to October 28, 1944. The Skrīveri Battalion commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Eduards Graudiņš was stationed in the manor buildings. The Kurelis were a military unit formed in Vidzeme in the summer of 1944 from the Riga District Guards, whose goal was to restore Latvia's independence between the retreat of the German army and the attack of the USSR troops on Latvian territory.
Heavily rebuilt for the needs of a school (from 1922), it has lost its original appearance and proportions during the reconstruction. Strazde Manor is surrounded by a beautiful park.
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In November 1944, a court-martial of the German occupation authorities sentenced 8 staff officers of General Kurel's group, three staff officers were pardoned for various reasons. The lieutenant colonel managed to escape from being shot, but Graudiņš was "trampled" by the German concentration camp system