Posted on 04/28/2014 8:30:11 AM PDT by kronos77
Ukrainian nationalists in western Ukrainian city of Lviv have held a rally in commemoration of a Nazi SS division created in 1943, despite a ban asking them to stop.
One attendee said "This march is to commemorate the Galician division, which had nothing to do with the divisions of the Waffen SS. Their oath of allegiance was for Ukraine. They are our heroes and that is why we honour them every year."
A woman shouts to the crowd during the Lviv rally. Credit: APTN Past marches have led to clashes between marchers and Soviet army veterans and left-wing groups.
Also called the Galician division, the group was formed to exclusively fight "Bolsheviks", but it still creates tension between political groups and affiliations today.
Meanwhile, the Kremlin has Lenin on ice and on display.
No, Putin is more like Hitler.
Try again.
Is Gubarev a Ukrainian Nazi? The Russian Foreign Ministry is a supporter of him and just demanded his release today:
http://www.mid.ru/brp_4.nsf/0/D03359B5BA8590AF44257CC8004F60A3
Your silence on this issue is very telling. You keep good company, FRiend.
Good at using brutality to put down unarmed civilians,poorly armed partisans, and hunting down Jews, lousy in actual combat. At Brody, they broke and ran away.
Brutally put down the Slovak Uprising in 1945, burning some 90+ villages to the ground, and executing 5,000+ Partisans Jews and Roma, and sending thousands of others to concentration camps.
The divisions own German Commanders considered them brutish and unreliable.
Bad time to bring this up—playing into Putin’s Propaganda.
There was a reason, but the reason was insane. Hitler actually believed his handlers that there will be a peace treaty between Nazi Germany and British Empire and that he will get the British colonies as the spoils of war.
The complete story of Rudolf Hess is still under wraps.
Yes....Rudolf Hess’s flight to the UK still remains one of the great mysteries of WWII. Was Hess insane or was he on a mission sanctioned by Hitler? Hess’s behavior at the Nuremberg Trial would seem to indicate the former and it also probably saved him from the hangman’s noose as well.
That would indicate that Hess was acting as a lone ranger and that his mission had no chance for success and therefore he was not playing with a full deck.
His performance at Nuremberg was either one of the best acting jobs of the war, or an accurate reflection of his true mental state.
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