Not sure if you're a historian or an expert on the matter but I'll believe the author way easier than I would believe someone on the internet.
I can only imagine what it was like for a Ukrainian hated by both Germany and Russia and having to choose one to fight the other, or do nothing while your country and people are killed.
These articles claim that if Poilievre gets cleared to read the report, then he now has to shut up about it, which hurts his campaign.
Which is bullshit and we all know it because Jagmeet did get clearance, read the report and has talked about it. Just not in detail but he sure af can comment about it. Bitcoin Millhouse just can't continue to lie about something when he's been informed it's actually bullshit.
I guess Conservatives consider that a strong leader?
But some guy here was upvoted for saying 'if you fought Russians during WWII, you were a Nazi'.
Great article but as it states, people willing to read this are already the kind of people who are open to change their minds with new information with the desire to take the time to read this new information.
56- The Galicia Division ( 14. Waffengrenadierdivision der SS [gal. #1]) should not be indicted as a group.
57- The members of Galicia Division were individually screened for security purposes before admission to Canada.
58- Charges of war crimes of Galicia Division have never been substantiated, either in 1950 when they were first preferred, or in 1984 when they were renewed, or before this Commission.
59- Further, in the absence of evidence of participation or knowledge of specific war crimes, mere membership in the Galicia Division is insufficient to justify prosecution.
60- No case can be made against members of Galicia Division for revocation of citizenship or deportation since the Canadian authorities were fully aware of the relevant facts in 1950 and admission to Canada was not granted them because of any false representation, or fraud, or concealment of material circumstances.
61- In any event, of the 217 officers of the Galicia Division denounced by Mr. Simon Wiesenthal to the Canadian government, 187 (i.e., 86 percent never set foot in Canada, 11 have died in Canada, 2 have left for another country, no prima facie case has been established against 16 and the last one could not be located
It is inconsiderate without question. It's a massive gaffe on our government's part but it's still not clear what wrong this guy did. Lots of Germans were fooled into thinking Germany was being attacked when it wasn't. My best friend is German and his mother is insanely embarrassed by what happened and refuses to talk about it. It's a huge source of guilt and shame for many Germans but most Germans at one point supported Hitler. That doesn't make them bad people.
Our Government saw this as a slam dunk against Russia and it backfired in the worst way possible. Maybe our Government will learn from this and no longer invite anyone to the house of commons to avoid any more future gaffes?
No one knows what this guy did during WWII but you're all so quick to assume because he was SS he most certainly did something bad. That's lazy thinking and if you had any shame, you'd be embarrassed by your words
Like Oskar Schindler, he too was a Nazi but he saved lots of Jews and Jews love him for it. I've not heard 1 Jew call Oskar a Nazi but this entire thread is acting like just being SS means you're the worst person in the world, without any merit.
We sure live in a fucked up place where merit doesn't matter and the opinion of people who admittedly know nothing and are just assuming from nothing.
I also didn't say Hitler Youth and the SS were comparable. You clearly don't know how to read if someone is making a comparison or not so you come off as uneducated and ignorant.
For someone who told me I don't know much, it's clear as day that you don't know much.
I wonder what he did while in WW2 or does anyone care? Does the fact that he was in the SS just makes him a bad guy regardless of his actions? His Wikipedia says he fought Russians, it doesn't say anything about exterminating Jews or anything else we know Hitler's Nazi's did.
It reminds me of Pope Benedict being a member of the Hitler youth. Some people were forced into that shit during a time of high propaganda and deception. Hitler was elected in a Democracy and fooled his own people to think they were being attacked so many normal regular Germans supported him. Are they all Nazi's?? No.
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Cut it out with the hyperbolic bullshit. There's no genocide apologies here so get a brain.