The Riga Trial was a war crimes trial held in front of a Soviet military tribunal between 26 January and 3 February 1946 in Riga, Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union against six high ranking Wehrmacht officers, Höheren SS- und Polizeiführer Friedrich Jeckeln and SA-Standartenführer Alexander Boecking.

[1] Unlike some previous trials, the prosecutors wanted to and were able to prove concretely that the main defendant, Jeckeln, was responsible for the crimes of which he was accused.

Prosecutors were able to trace his "blood trail" through Ukraine and the Baltic states as a commander of Einsatzgruppen death squads and determine his responsibility for the murder of over 100,000 Jews, Romani, and others.

Jeckeln defended his actions on the grounds that he was acting on orders from Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler.

Boecking, the area commissioner of the Tallinn district, was accused of the "Germanisation policy" in Estonia with the looting and extermination of Estonian people and the settlement of Germans in their place.