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After the Reich fell: What happened to Hitler’s Waffen-SS commanders

When Nazi Germany collapsed, senior Waffen-SS leaders did not simply disappear—they were hunted, captured, and put on trial.
World Socialist Web Site

How the Waffen SS Galicia division is glorified on Ukrainian television

The author is a socialist living in Ukraine. In late September, while on an official visit to Canada, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, along with the Canadian parliament, gave a standing ...
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Otto Kumm: The SS general who built the Waffen-SS veterans’ lobby

Otto Kumm rose from frontline regimental commander to lead Waffen-SS divisions in some of the war’s fiercest battles. After 1945, he faced extradition demands for crimes committed in the Balkans—but ...
The Forward

Nazi Waffen SS Veterans Join Ultranationalist March in Latvia

Several hundred ultranationalists, including seven veterans of Nazi Germany’s Waffen SS, marched through Riga on the independence day of the Baltic nation of Latvia. The march Wednesday, a ...
World Socialist Web Site

Government-backed Ukrainian Canadian Congress chides: Don’t “besmirch” the reputation of Nazi Waffen-SS veteran Hunka

The politically influential, state-supported Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) has responded to the political firestorm triggered by the Canadian parliament’s standing ovation for the Nazi war ...
The National Interest

Battle for Itter Castle: When Nazis Joined with Americans to Fight Hitler’s SS

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Before the Waffen-SS soldiers attacked the castle, Gangl had managed to phone members of the Austrian resistance in Wörgl, explaining the situation. The resistance ...
The National Interest

Waffen-SS

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Before the Waffen-SS soldiers attacked the castle, Gangl had managed to phone members of the Austrian resistance in Wörgl, explaining the situation. The resistance ...