• TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    All of the Waffen SS without exception was charged with war crimes at Nuremburg. Canada had their own special commission in the 80s that was not allowed to cite the Nuremburg trial and that's probably what he was referring to. Hunkas unit was in the Waffen SS despite the name change in 1945. Hunka himself joined in 1943, he wasn't caught up in stuff - also, true Ukrainian patriots joined the Red Army to liberate their homeland not the invading Nazi German army. The Red Army had plenty of Ukranians in it in WW2, it's not like they were confused who they should fight unless... th3y were nazis.

    • Kieselguhr [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      One incredible attempt at whitewashing Hunka was someone saying that Hunka maybe didn't have enough information that the nazis were bad.

      I was flabbergasted. Hunka joined in 19-fuckin-43. Nazis raped and burned villages, shot people in mass graves left and right, literally killed millions of civilians in those years - how could you possibly say that someone from the Eastern front was unaware that nazis were "not good"? what the fuckin fuck