Posted on 09/06/2023 10:03:31 AM PDT by McGruff
A national Jewish advocacy organization is calling for the removal of a monument to Nazi collaborators in Montgomery County, just outside of Philadelphia, that until recently went largely unnoticed for decades.
The large stone cross, which was the subject of an Inquirer article published Sunday, was erected about 30 years ago at St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery in Elkins Park in honor of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the Schutzstaffel — the Nazi military branch often referred to simply as “the SS.”
The unit, known also as the “1st Galician” or “SS Galizien,” was formed in 1943. It was composed of volunteers and conscripts from Nazi-occupied Ukraine who fought for Germany during World War II. Some in the Ukrainian diaspora view those soldiers not as Nazi collaborators but “freedom fighters” who wanted to establish Ukrainian independence by battling the Soviet Union.
Jewish groups — and many historians — don’t see it that way.
(Excerpt) Read more at inquirer.com ...
That's just too damned bad. It's not your cemetery; the symbol is of the unit that freed the Ukrainians from the evil Communists who had starved millions of Ukrainians.
Leave it alone.
The Poles. It was the Poles against which the Galicians sought revenge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huta_Pieniacka_massacre
Any monument dedicated to SS troops should be torn down, blown up or otherwise destroyed.
What’s in a Jewish cemetery is none of anyone’s business and what’s in a Ukrainian Catholic cemetery is also none of anyone’s damned business. The commies were against this Ukraine unit.
Wołyn (I’ve watched “Come and See”, this movie is even more brutal)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdWPAwAjSEs
The article glosses over the genocide that Stalin and the CPUSSR did to the Ukrainians from 1926 through 1941.
The Jewish people have better public relations than the 10 Million Ukrainian people starved to death and another 2-5 Million killed while being arrested, summarily executed, or worked to death in a camp.
If you are being killed slowly by Stalin, Hitler might have some appeal, simply because he has not started killing you yet. I guess that is a little too subtle and nuanced for the perpetual victim class...
We just can’t make this stuff up. And always remember that virtually all DemocRATs and some pretend Repulsicans support that corrupt country. Nope, I don’t agree with the invasion, but that’s Europe’s problem. Yes, it’s their problem. After all, what’ll we do if there’s war, let our LGBTs threaten the Russians with pronouns?
“Following the recommendation of the Ukrainian ambassador to Poland, Andrii Deshchytsia, showing the film has been banned in Ukraine.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volhynia_(film)#In_Ukraine
Interesting.
Americans don’t glorify Nazis. Far be it from post WW11 arrivals to come here and do so. . Who they are honoring were not of our American blood. Destroy it.
Wernher Von Braun?
Both were equally Demonic. Both were echoes of the antichrist. Not sure what should be done with this.
Von Braun helped us go to the moon. I don’t recall him ever pushing to restore the Reich after he surrendered or getting political thereafter.
Stalin hated Jews too.
He was more than happy to let Hitler take care of his “Jewish Problem”.
This is like the tree in the forest—if nobody hears it did it really fall?
Now they are outraged....lol.
You have to find them all first.
Why don’t you devote the rest of your life to visiting every square inch of the country to make sure no SS monuments are hidden anywhere....
Lol.
“Wernher Von Braun?”
and the cast of thousands from Project Paperclip.
The virtue signaling around here is amusing.
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