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Vandalism of private property was not a hate crime against Nazis

That’s right folks, as hard as it is to fathom, there is actually a monument on Canadian soil that pays tribute to Hitler’s SS troops.
SS Galizien recruits wait as Kreishauptmann Hoffstetter of SS Galizien enters a Greek Catholic church in Sanok, Poland, in 1943.
OTTAWA—In the wake of the high-profile Black Lives Matter movement, there has been a lot of soul searching into a North American history riddled with racism and the institutional glorification of colonialism. In the U.S., we have seen protestors topple statues of Confederate generals and Christoph...

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