The 14th Waffen SS Galician Division, two thousand or more of whose members ultimately found refuge in Canada, was formed in 1943 at the urging of the Ukrainian Central Committee, a branch of the ...

Among them were Germans who served in the German army and Ukrainians who joined the Galician SS division, which fought alongside the Wehrmacht and committed war crimes.

But David Matas, legal adviser to B’nai Brith, said “by coming to Canada, the members of the Galician SS Division were able to find immunity for their criminality because the Deschênes ...

Canadians from across the country blasted the Liberal government and federal leaders for honouring in the House of Commons a Ukrainian veteran who fought for a Nazi SS division.

Luciuk has also vociferously defended the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician), commonly known as SS Galizien.

But as commentators soon pointed out, Hunka’s fight against the Russians during the war was as a Nazi collaborator and member of the Waffen-SS 1st Galician Division.

Canada's House of Commons gave a standing ovation to Yaroslav Hunka, a member of the 14th Grenadier Division of the Waffen-SS (1st Galician Division), ...

To say the least, it’s complicated. However, the way forward, at least in the short term, is clear: Public tributes to the Ukrainian Galician SS division or its individual members must be ...

The SS was under the command of Heinrich Himmler, and the Gestapo answered to the SS. The unit was known officially as the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS or the “1st Galician” unit. German ...

The grandfather of Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s deputy prime minister, worked for a Nazi newspaper that recruited for the Galicia Division of the Waffen-SS — the same division as Yaroslav Hunka, the ...

Heinrich Himmler, one of the top Nazi officials, inspects a line of troops with the 1st Galician Division, also known as the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, in an undated photo.