Release the names

The best way to counter Russian propaganda is not to be silent, but to tell the whole truth. That’s what the Library and Archives Canada should be giving us regarding the Galician Waffen SS Division in this country.

Heinrich Himmler inspecting the Galicia Division in May 1944. Otto Wächter is in the background.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY DAVID MATAS

October 3, 2024

WINNIPEG—Library and Archives Canada has been urged to keep secret the names of around 900 members of a Nazi Galician Waffen SS Division who came to Canada after the Second World War. The reason given for the silence request is that naming the members of the division ...

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