Michael Karkoc%2C 94%2C was an officer in SS Galician Division Records do not show that Karkoc had a direct hand in war crimes Karkoc%27s unit is accused of burning villages filled with women and ...

Initially small, it eventually numbered some 600 soldiers. The legion was dissolved and folded into the SS Galician Division in 1945; Karkoc wrote that he remained with it until the end of the war.

Karkoc's name surfaced when a retired clinical pharmacologist who researched Nazi war crimes in his free time came across it while looking into members of the SS Galician Division who immigrated ...

Other Ukrainian military units, such as the SS Galician Division or the Ukrainian Self Defense Legion, remained loyal to the Nazis. Veterans of the Galician see themselves as freedom fighters.

Evidence puts Michael Karkoc, 94, at scene of massacre, other crackdowns by his Nazi SS-led Ukrainian unit, AP says, adding he lied to get into U.S.

Heinrich Himmler, center, reviews troops of the Galician SS-Volunteer Infantry Division. Michael Karkoc became a member of the Galician division after the Ukrainian Self Defense Legion was ...

The legion eventually numbered some 600 soldiers and was folded into the SS Galician Division in 1945.

A June 3, 1944, photo provided by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum shows SS chief Heinrich Himmler (center) as he reviews troops of the Galician SS-Volunteer Infantry Division. A 94-year-old man ...

Karkoc was allegedly an officer in the SS Galician Division, which was responsible for committing atrocities against civilians, the release said. Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the ...

Initially small, it eventually numbered some 600 soldiers. The legion was dissolved and folded into the SS Galician Division in 1945; Karkoc wrote that he remained with it until the end of the war.

Initially small, it eventually numbered some 600 soldiers. The legion was dissolved and folded into the SS Galician Division in 1945; Karkoc wrote that he remained with it until the end of the war.