Former Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler: An important question that has been missed. How did a veteran of the SS Galicia division] end up in Canada in the first place and he was not prosecuted?

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Former Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler: An important question that has been missed. How did a veteran of the SS Galicia division] end up in Canada in the first place and he was not prosecuted? - Lemmy

Didn’t Canada expel and revoke the citizenship of a hundred year old Nazi that had been living there for decades? If so, can’t they just do that again?
I think the real question is how many nazis there are in Canada and why the Canadian government won’t release this information to the public.

how many nazis there are in Canada

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@yogthos @OprahsedCreature
Likely because majority of the government is occupied by them.

It’s been a week for this guy. Went from being applauded for being a nazi to steps being taken to hold him accountable for his crimes.^[cbc.ca/…/yaroslav-hunka-poland-minister-extradite…]

But our institutions need to find the rest of them to hold them accountable.

Poland's education minister says he's 'taken steps' to extradite Yaroslav Hunka | CBC News

Poland's education minister says he has "taken steps" to effect the extradition to Poland of Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old Ukrainian Canadian, after it emerged that the veteran served in the Nazi SS Galizien formation during the Second World War.

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I mean, even if he gets deported all the way to the front lines he still got away with naziing for decades so…yikes

What should he be prosecuted for exactly? This very article says that membership in the division, which was separate from the rest of the SS, was not in itself a war crime. I’ve not heard anybody claim that this guy in particular committed any crimes.

I do agree the results of the commission should be made public, and if that reveals crimes that weren’t prosecuted then we should do so.

You’re seriously trying to pretend that somebody who volunteered for this division isn’t a war criminal. That’s quite the hill you picked there buddy espritdecorps.ca/…/whitewashing-the-ss-the-attemp…
Whitewashing The SS: The Attempt to Re-Write the History of Hitler’s Collaborators — espritdecorps

By David Pugliese Over the years some Ukrainian Canadians have staunchly defended the 14th SS Division Galicia. They have falsely claimed that Ukrainians who served in the division were conscripted, when in reality 80,000 volunteered and 13,000 were selected. Other apologists argue that the divisio

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