• Oldmandan@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Eh, common knowledge if (and only if) you are someone chronically online and in the habit of trying to understand current events. :P

      That said, rage bait is a bit harsh; while I’m not sure there’s much to be done (the calls to deport geriatrics into an active warzone are… a little silly, even if we can prove these people to be war criminals), there are questions worth asking wrt to the circumstances and legitimacy of the rulings and descisions around both their post war status and entrance to Canada. Some acknowledgement and reckoning with some of the questionable actions taken as a nation in the aftermath of WWII is likely past due. /shurg

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        1 year ago

        That said, rage bait is a bit harsh;

        The event happened on the 22nd and I read about it on the 23rd or 24th, and at that time, I also learned about the Deschênes Commission. This is from an article 7 days ago:

        The decision to allow about 600 members of the division to live in Canada after the second world war has long been a source of controversy in Canada, and was the subject of a government commission of inquiry in the 1980s into whether Canada had become a haven for war criminals. Members of the division were accused of killing Polish and Jewish civilians. The Nuremberg tribunals found the Waffen-SS guilty as an organisation of war crimes but not the Galicia division.

        I’m in no way trying to excuse their actions, or whitewash, or whatever. My argument is the title of the article:

        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?

        Which is straight up bullshit; the question has been asked since the end of WW2 and has been answered several times.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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          1 year ago

          This question need to be continued to be asked because as the recent events demonstrate, it absolutely has not been answered adequately. Releasing Deschênes Commission findings to the public would sure be a good start towards actually answering some questions.