Thunder Cross Jean Goeppinger Sandwiched between mountain and sea

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Thunder Cross Jean Goeppinger Sandwiched between mountain and seaFounded in 1932, the Perkonkrusts ("Thunder Cross") was the largest and most prominent right wing political party in Latvia in the early twentieth century. Its motto "Latvia for Latvians!" echoed the ultranationalist rhetoric of similar movements throughout Europe at the time. Unlike the Nazis in Germany or the Fascists in Italy, however, the Perkonkrusts never succeeded in seizing power. Nevertheless, Holocaust historian Paula A. Oppermann argues,