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On September 22, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal-NDP axis honored Yaroslav Hunka, 98, as “a Ukrainian hero, a Canadian hero, and we thank him for all his service.” That service, it turned out, was with the German National Socialists, also known as Nazis.
During World War II, Hunka served under Nazi command with the Waffen-SS Galicia Division, a volunteer unit that, among other atrocities, massacred adults and children in the Polish village of Huta Pieniacka. The International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg declared Hunka’s unit a criminal organization but Yaroslav Hunka made his way to Canada and lived peacefully under his own name. So did thousands of other Nazis, and CBS’ Sixty Minutes exposed “Canada’s Dark Secret,” way back in 1997.
As host Mike Wallace explained, Canada welcomed “thousands of Nazi war criminals” at the end of World War II. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) failed to track down and expose them, but American private detective Steven Rambam had an easy time. He got the names from the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem and found the Nazis in telephone directories. In Canada, the Nazi war criminals had not even bothered to change their names.
The vast majority of the Nazis, Rambam told Wallace, “stabbed Jews, shot Jews, beat them to death.” Other war criminals, “coordinated the rounding up and execution of thousands of Jews.” One of them was Anastus Kenstiviscius, a Latvian implicated in the deaths of more than 8,000 Jews.
Identifying himself as a researcher from the fictitious St. Paul’s University of the Americas, Rambam recorded Kenstiviscius and his wife about murderous operations. Without active, collaboration from these murder squads, Rambam said, “the Nazis could never have murdered as many Jews as they did.”
Irving Abella, a professor of history at York University and former president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, told Wallace that Nazi war criminals “had an easy time emigrating to Canada.” The government of Pierre Trudeau claimed they were “afraid of exacerbating relationships between Jews and Eastern European ethnic communities.” So the Trudeau government “did not go after war criminals,” though lobbied extensively to do so. That enabled many Nazis to escape notice.
One of them was Helmut Oberlander, who served in Special Detachment 10a of Einsatzgruppe D, “a mobile killing unit of the Nazi SS that murdered tens of thousands of Jewish and other civilians in southern Ukraine and the Caucasus.” Oberlander made his way to Canada and established himself as a homebuilder in Ontario.
On a 1995 trip to Florida, the United States deported Oberlander back to Canada. One longtime neighbor, a professor of German, described them as “fine people. Very quiet, nice neighbors,” and so forth.
Canada tried to prosecute Nazi war criminals but failed to get convictions. According to Wallace, in 50 years, Canada managed to deport only one.
“These people aren’t afraid,” Rambam said. “They made the right choice. They came to Canada.” So did members of the Hitler’s SS. As Mike Wallace noted, the RCMP intended to investigate more than 1800 SS members, “presently living in Canada who are still receiving their German military pensions.” In 1997, that was big news.
As the New York Times reported, one family in the Toronto area tried to keep Global Television from broadcasting “Canada’s Dark Secret” because it “identified a member of the family as an accused war criminal.” Global news decided to broadcast the program anyway. As the Times noted, Jewish organizations had notified Canada about Anastus Kenstiviscius back in 1948. The war criminal died a month before the “60 Minutes” broadcast, just as deportation proceedings were gearing up against him.
Helmut Oberlander, who served with the deadly Einsatzgruppen, lived on peacefully in Ontario and died there in 2021 at the age of 97. “To Canada’s great shame, justice was never served in this case,” said a statement from Michael Levitt of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center.
“Oberlander was handed the privilege of dying peacefully by his family’s side as a free man,” wrote Levitt, “a reality denied to the millions of Holocaust victims who had their freedoms, dignity and lives taken away from them. Let this be an opportunity for us all to reflect on the failure at bringing a former Nazi death squad member to justice.”
In 2022, Trudeau accused Conservative politicians who supported the protesting truckers of standing with “people who wave swastikas.” Liberal member of Parliament Ya’ara Saks claimed that the truckers’ “honk honk” meant “heil Hitler.” Saks, who serves as “Mental Health and Addictions Minister,” was among those cheering Hunka on September 22, a full 26 years after the “60 Minutes” broadcast.
At 98, Hunka could be the last of Canada’s Nazi war criminals, but when he dies that will not close the deal. During the 1980s Canadian judge Jules Deschênes chaired a commission to reveal how many war criminals were residing in Canada. The first volume, published in 1987, was redacted. The second volume, which identified the war criminals, remains classified.
“The history lives with us, whether we get the records or not,” explains David Matas, who represented B’nai Brith Canada at the 1986 inquiry. “Canada should not be a haven for mass murderers, war criminals, criminals against humanity, genocidal killers. Genocide was not just a Holocaust problem, it continues to this day and people from all over the world are trying to get into Canada.”
Canadians soon will be rolling out the welcome mat for thousands of Hamas pogromists deserting the sinking ship of state of Gaza like the rats they are.
This author lies! Hunka is not a war criminal. He had been investigated snd cleared by Canada, the UK and the Soviet Union
Who said so?
“Honk, honk” means “Heil Hitler?” What,about “Happy holidays?”
Sounds like you would be very comfortable running your own Einsatzgruppen of war criminals.
Pardon me while I barf and what made you say such a thing?
He was a member of the Waffen SS. If you don’t know who that group was and their sordid history then shame on you.
Canadians have elected Trudeaus 7 times, so the answer to your obvious question is, yes Canadians are that stupid. We are getting what we voted for, good and hard.
The UK and US also imported tens of thousands of Nazi war criminals immediately after the war
So did Ukraine.
Only the rocket scientists who were useful in keeping us ahead of the Nazis that the USSR imported.
There has been so much misrepresentation of events that took place during World War II that it is pathetic. The Germans get blame for everything when in reality there were numerous military units of other ethnic groups that served with the German army that may have engage in atrocities. The individual in this article is Ukrainian, not German. .
The author should also point out all the war crimes committed by the Allies during World War II, if you want a balance picture of that war. Start with Poland butchering almost 60,000 German men, women, and children in 1939 before the Second World War even started. How come the Polish people were not put on trial for their crimes? If you remember, a part of Germany was given to Poland along with the German people that live in that area after the First World War. The Polish government engaged in genocide of the German people in Poland.
Like they say , when there is a war the first thing that goes out the window is the TRUTH. That certainly applies to the Second World War.
Just ecactly when and why did Poland butchet 60,000 German men, women and cjildren? Where’s the documemtation?
Miranda:
Do your research. I have copies of the documentation. That the problem with many people in America, they will not take the time to do any research. I realized over the years that there has been a lot of sugar coating of historical events. Its take time and effort to find the truth. Once, I learned the truth, I have a different perspective of historical events. One of the things I learned is the fact that the Allies were no angels when it comes to war crimes during and after World War I and II by the Allies.
Have a nice evening.
Without the Allies, Europe would be saluting with Seig Heil.
You’re right. I remember a quote: If you’re reading this, thank a teacher.
If you’re reading this in English, thank a soldier.
I’m of Polish origin and I would appreciate if you could provide some evidence of this please.
And why is Zelenskyy in a photo about NAZIs? Incredible.
The Biden administration played the sympathy card to start using US funding for the Ukraine war. They are also trying to drag the US into a 20 year war in the Middle East to put combat troops on the ground in Israel. We fully support Israel, but we need to think this through. This is the other reason why they are trying to rush in a Speaker of the House vote because of the the conflict in Israel. Everything we see is a plot to undermine America.
With the endless war Biden Crime Family in power we may not see a 2024 let alone an election. They know they’re funding Nazis and elite pension funds but the only thing that matters to democrats is the slush fund. BTW McCarthy gladly took the FTX money too. How many more Ukrainians, Russians need to die to keep the leftist gravy train flowing. Now Biden gives billions to Iran to start another war.