--- title: "As Expected Poland Enters Canada’s Nazi Fray" type: "post" post_id: "5039" slug: "as-expected-poland-enters-canadas-nazi-fray" canonical: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2023/09/26/as-expected-poland-enters-canadas-nazi-fray/" markdown_url: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2023/09/26/as-expected-poland-enters-canadas-nazi-fray.md" json_url: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2023/09/26/as-expected-poland-enters-canadas-nazi-fray.json" txt_url: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2023/09/26/as-expected-poland-enters-canadas-nazi-fray.txt" published: "2023-09-26T16:52:33+00:00" modified: "2023-09-26T16:52:33+00:00" author: "penny2" categories: - "Uncategorized" tags: - "Canada" - "Covid" - "perception management" site_name: "PFYT2" publisher: "" language: "en-US" generator: "easyPress Markdown" generator_version: "1.0.6" --- **I was waiting for Poland’s reaction. I’m sure the action in Canada’s HoC’s came across as a complete and total insult to the Poles.** **This particular bunch of Nazi volunteers was known to be especially brutal, inhumane and atrocious in their activities. Yes, that’s right this was an all volunteer** [CBC](https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/yaroslav-hunka-poland-minister-extradite-1.6978266) > On Friday, Hunka was invited to sit in the parliamentary gallery by Speaker Anthony Rota for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s address to Parliament. Rota introduced **Hunka as a “Ukrainian hero” and a “Canadian hero,” prompting a standing ovation in the House of Commons.** Over the weekend, it was reported th**at Hunka was part of the First Ukrainian Division, also known as the Waffen-SS Galicia Division or the SS 14th Waffen Division, a voluntary unit that was under the command of the Nazis.** > **`a voluntary unit that was under the command of the Nazis.`** **But this information was known before the week end.. Canada has long history with it’s Ukrainian Nazis.** > “**In view of the scandalous events in the Canadian Parliament, which involved honouring, in the presence of President Zelenskyy, a member of the criminal Nazi SS Galizien formation, I have taken steps towards the possible extradition of this man to Poland,” Przemysław Czarnek said in a social media post Tuesday.** ##### ‘[Deeply hurtful’: Polish ambassador condemns Nazi veteran’s invitation to Canada’s Parliament](https://www.erienewsnow.com/story/49729490/deeply-hurtful-polish-ambassador-condemns-nazi-veterans-invitation-to-canadas-parliament) > “***This is a person who participated in an organization that was targeting Poles, was committing mass murders of Poles, not only the military personnel but also civilians,” Dzielski said. “For me, such people should not be present in public life and probably should be prosecuted.”*** **They didn’t just kill Polish Jews, the killed Poles in general.** **The Poles were simply considered lesser then. Sort of like how Trudeau viewed the unvaccinated in Canada. Lesser then. Unclean. Unworthy.** ##### [Canada’s long history of soft-pedalling the Ukrainian Waffen-SS Galicia Division](https://nationalpost.com/opinion/canadas-soft-pedalling-ukraine-ss-galicia) **If Canada was ever going to embarrass itself by having its Parliamentarians applaud the enthusiastic veteran of a Nazi combat unit,` it’s almost inevitable that the unit would be the Waffen-SS Galicia Division.`** **There are monuments to the unit at cemeteries in both Alberta and Oakville, Ont., both of which avoid any mention of its SS origins,** instead referring to it as the 1st Ukrainian Division of the Ukrainian National Army. **When this was pointed out by the Russian Foreign Ministry in 2018, documents later obtained by Postmedia would show that [Global Affairs Canada ](https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/canadian-government-comes-to-the-defence-of-nazi-ss-and-nazi-collaborators-but-why)rushed to have the claim labelled as “misinformation.” The minister of foreign affairs at the time, Chrystia Freeland, has [also played the “disinformation” card](https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/did-chrystia-freeland-pose-with-extremist-symbols-or-is-it-russian-disinformation) whenever Russia has pointed out that her own family tree contains a Ukrainian collaborator (although not one who served with the Galicia Division).** **Officially known as the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, the Galicia Division was one of a number of “foreign” units of the Waffen-SS formed during the course of the Second World War.** After conquering a new corner of Europe, **Nazi commanders would put out a call for volunteers to sign up for the Schutzstaffel (SS), an elite corps loyal to the Nazi Party that stood distinct from the German arm** **There was a French SS unit, a Norwegian SS unit, a Dutch SS unit, and even SS units formed from British and American prisoners of war. And in 1943, the Nazi occupiers of what is now Ukraine recruited a unit of racially acceptable Ukrainians to bolster their invasion and subjugation of the Soviet Union**