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Twilight of the Waffen SS: Collapse of Hitler’s Elite in the Dying ReichThey swore loyalty until death—and many met it in the ruins of Hitler’s empire. In the final chapter of the Waffen SS, we follow their failed last stand at Lake Balaton, their brutal retreat through ...
After the standing ovation for Nazi collaborator Yaroslav Hunka by the Canadian parliament, the Waffen SS Galicia division has been openly glorified on Ukrainian television.
Photo by historical photo Formed in 1943, SS Galichina was a Ukrainian unit in the Waffen-SS — the combat branch of the SS (Schutzstaffel) wing of the Nazi Party.
Nobel Prize-winning German writer Guenter Grass, author of the great anti-Nazi novel The Tin Drum, has admitted serving in the Waffen SS. He told a German newspaper he had been recruited at the age of ...
Event to defend the Waffen SS cancelled after University of Alberta professors complain about Nazi whitewashing.
The Waffen SS was the combat arm of Hitler's dreaded SS paramilitary force, which was responsible for atrocities throughout Nazi-occupied Europe. Guenter Grass was born in the northern port city of ...
The gaffe rekindled calls for a monument honoring his unit to be removed from a Canadian cemetery. Yaroslav Hunka served in the 14th Waffen SS Division, a voluntary unit of mostly Ukrainians.
Jewish groups said Yaroslav Hunka, who was lauded in Canada’s Parliament during a visit by President Zelensky, fought in a Waffen-SS unit during World War II.
As teenagers, Philippe Douroux, Alain Lejeune and Eric Frantz learned that their fathers had been among the 10,000 Frenchmen and 8,500 Walloons to enlist in the Waffen-SS. After decades of revolt ...
Politicians and anti-Semitism activists are calling out the Canadian Parliament after a 98-year-old Ukrainian World War II veteran, who fought for the Third Reich, was given a standing ovation and ...
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