Russia and France have not fought one another since the Patriotic War of 1812, and were allies during both the First and Second World Wars. However, the fight of French fascist forces allied to Hitler against the USSR during WWII is a well-documented fact, even if it’s often unjustly relegated to the status of a historical footnote.
Following the war, Canada’s Liberal government classified thousands of Jewish refugees as “enemy aliens” and held them alongside former Nazis in a network of internment camps enclosed with barbed wire, fearing that they would infect their new country with communism. At the same time, Ottawa placed thousands of Ukrainian veterans of Hitler’s army on the fast-track to…
By celebrating a Waffen-SS volunteer as a “hero,” Canada has highlighted a longstanding policy that has seen Ottawa train fascist militants in Ukraine while welcoming in thousands of post-war Nazi SS veterans, writes Max Blumenthal.
1,800 Nazis, Including Ukrainians,
Settled in Canada After W
Fred Chapal was in the third wave of soldiers who landed on Utah Beach on D-Day. He later fought in the Battle of the Bulge and never forgot its horrors.