Also it’s not clear whether the soldier (as a teenager to young adult in 1940s) lived in Ukraine or in Canada, as Ukrainians flocked into Canada as early as the 1905 troubles and again during and after WW-I, and a few certainly went back to Ukraine to fight Stalin’s Red Army given that opportunity. We cannot easily know how informed they may or may not have been about their new friends from Germany. They were probably motivated by anti-communist sentiments, some may also have been fascists. Europe was not short of fascists or communists in 1941. Even after they killed each other in large numbers, there still are a lot. What irks me is that progressives see only one side as evil. I’m not sure this guy Poland wants to extradite knew a lot about what the Nazis were about, at least not until after it was too late to leave the unit. And it is unseemly to want to put a 98-year old on trial. Let God deal with it.
Shrug! This was 79 years ago. He was a young man caught up in the throws of a world war.