Serving Hitler, the soldiers of the Waffen SS “Galicia” division whose ranks included members of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) directly cooperated with Hitler’s SS units and Hitler’s ...

A significant number of those who made their way to Canada were members of the Nazi SS’s Galicia Division, which was made up of Ukrainian nationalist volunteers who fought on the side of the ...

While Galicia Division recruits may have been attracted by the idea of eventually seeking a sovereign Ukraine through force, in joining the SS they had all sworn a personal oath of loyalty to Nazi ...

But he said he would be hesitant to press the issue of the SS Galicia memorial at present, in part because of Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine. “I believe the time is now to support ...

An SS Galichina recruitment poster that says ... The unit was created in 1943 out of recruits from the Galicia region in western Ukraine. The soldiers took an oath of loyalty to Hitler and ...

The SS organized a subgroup in Ukraine called the 14th SS-Volunteer Division "Galicia." Many Ukrainian Nazis volunteered to become death camp guards in Poland, and many were complicit in the ...

The tweets focussed on three monuments: the bust to Shukhevych and two monuments to the veterans of the 14th Waffen SS Galicia Division that was renamed into the 1st Ukrainian Division shortly ...

Jewish groups demanded an explanation after Anthony Rota, the speaker of Canada’s House of Commons, introduced a 98-year-old veteran of an SS unit as a “hero.” By Isabella Kwai The Ukrainian ...

It discusses how and why Ottawa threw open its doors to Hunka and some 2,000 Ukrainian SS veterans. As the article explains, this was part of a broader policy of providing a safe haven to the Nazis’ ...