Pierre Trudeau once said he intentionally didn\u0027t prosecute Nazi war criminals living in Canada, lest it inflame European expats
This is House of Commons speaker Anthony Rota as he introduced a former member of the Waffen-SS, Yaroslav Hunka, as a “Canadian hero” during the visit of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. This image catches Rota as he raised an eyebrow and took a slight pause just after saying that Hunka had fought against “the Russians” during the Second Word War – and more than one observer has speculated that this is the precise moment that Rota realized he had brought a Nazi to Parliament.
with the intention of finding out just how many Nazi war criminals Canada had been allowed to fly under the radar.Article content The report also found that Canada was home to several thousand ex-Nazis who couldn’t be directly implicated in war crimes given the available evidence. This is a cenotaph at Oakville, Ont.’s St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Cemetery honouring the Galician Division, which it refers to as the First Ukrainian Division, Ukrainian National Army. It’s one of two monuments in Canada paying homage to a division of the Waffen-SS.The division had surrendered to the Western Allies at the close of the Second World War, and following a period of detention in the U.K.
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