Whitewashing The SS: The Attempt to Re-Write the History of Hitler’s Collaborators — espritdecorps
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By David Pugliese Over the years some Ukrainian Canadians have staunchly defended the 14th SS Division Galicia. They have falsely claimed that Ukrainians who served in the division were conscripted, when in reality 80,000 volunteered and 13,000 were selected. Other apologists argue that the divisio
    • @mycatiskai@lemmy.one
      3•8 months ago

      Is it really defacing to write the truth on an incorrectly marked monument?

      It is more adding footnotes to historically inaccurate signage.

      • FiveAEnglish
        2•8 months ago

        Whatever you call it, it’s an improvement.

            • @mycatiskai@lemmy.one
              1•8 months ago

              I’m glad his life is going to get more complicated. Depending on his actions during his time spent working as a Nazi, he might be deserving of punishment up to and including hanging. I’m all for the abolishment of the prison state, but that does not include Nazis. Intolerance has no place in society or society will eventually fall to those intolerant who gain power.

              If he killed 100 civilians because they were Jewish or disabled or gay then moved to Canada with a clean slate do you think he should face no repercussions just because he got old?

              • FiveAEnglish
                1•8 months ago

                I clearly did not say no repercussions. I agree we should be intolerant of intolerance, but Popper’s dictum implies a de-escalation; calls for genocide should be responded to with censorship, perhaps violence, but not murder. Capital punishment has a finality that requires perfection of clearly imperfect human justice. Corpses don’t reflect, regret, or reparate.

                I’m merely asserting a position. I’m not that invested in the fate of a Nazi when people who have done less have received worse, nothing I say will have any effect on the outcome, and the source of your wrath is just.