In the final days of World War II, as Berlin crumbled under the weight of the Soviet onslaught, a small group of French ...

Afterward, the division was transferred to Yugoslavia for action against the partisans. ... The open glorification of the Waffen SS Galicia division on Ukrainian television is not a one-off.

The event honored Waffen-SS collaborators, paying tribute to a failed operation in which Nazi and Hungarian troops attempted to break out of the city during the Soviet Army’s siege in 1945.

The university’s Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies received endowments and donations worth more than $1-million from Ukrainians who served in the Waffen-SS Galicia division or who helped ...

The admission by Nobel prize-winning novelist Guenter Grass that he served in the notorious Waffen SS during World War II has sent shockwaves through Germany and neighbouring Poland. The Waffen SS was ...

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has released newly declassified documents detailing mass atrocities committed by Latvian Waffen-SS units duri Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT عربي ...

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 ...

It was later pointed out that Hunka served in the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, a Nazi military unit. ... I accept full responsibility for my action,” Rota said.

It has since emerged that Mr Savaryn served in Nazi Waffen SS units. The apology comes a fortnight after a row in Canada's parliament over an invite to an elderly Ukrainian man who had fought with ...

The monument, located around 25 miles from Toronto, is a centograph that was erected in remembrance of those who fought for the 14th SS Division, also known as the Galicia Division.

VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY and Justin Trudeau led the Canadian Parliament in a standing ovation for a Waffen SS veteran on Friday evening. The incident, noted obliquely in a photograph caption on the ...