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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a video celebrating the anniversary of the referendum called illegal by the UN in four Ukrainian regions one year ago, in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, September 30, 2023. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
October 6, 2023, 10:58 am
Putin calls Canada’s former house speaker ‘an idiot’ for applauding Nazi war veteran
Russian leader says ‘absolutely disgusting’ that Canadian parliament inadvertently honored ex-Waffen SS volunteer
By AFP
The speaker of Canada's House of Commons Anthony Rota delivers a speech following an address by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, September 22, 2023. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)
September 26, 2023, 9:36 pm
Canada’s House Speaker resigns after organizing ovation for ‘hero’ Nazi war veteran
Anthony Rota steps down after meeting party leaders amid fury over his invite to veteran of Waffen-SS unit; Polish minister says he will seek 98-year-old’s extradition
By Rob Gillies
A copy of the file on Ulrich Schnaft that Israel's General Security Agency recently declassified shows a picture of the Nazi soldier turned Israeli army officer. (Israel State Archives via Haaretz)
June 4, 2023, 11:11 pm
Israel declassifies file on Nazi who enlisted in the IDF and spied for Egypt
Ulrich Schnaft’s capture underscores the challenges and vigilance of a counterintelligence body vetting countless undocumented immigrants while fighting a 4-front war
By ToI Staff
Undated illustrative image of Waffen-SS 'Wiking' division in Russia. (CC BY-SA Bild National Archives, Wikimedia Commons)
June 5, 2021, 11:26 am
New Zealand still not opening files on ‘resettled’ alleged former Nazi emigres
Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff supplied a list of 50 suspected war criminals decades ago, but successive governments keep classified the immigration documents that could implicate them
By Lance Morcan
Marchers hold up the symbol of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS in Kyiv, Ukraine on April 28, 2021. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)
May 4, 2021, 4:20 am
Hundreds in Ukraine attend marches celebrating Nazi SS soldiers
For first time ever, parade celebrating 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of SS, made up of ethnic Ukrainians, takes place in capital Kyiv
By Cnaan Liphshiz
SS veterans and their supporters march in Riga, Latvia on March 16, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz via JTA)
February 4, 2021, 9:42 am
Germany names Dutch SS veterans still receiving pensions for serving Hitler
Reports in 2014 revealed hundreds of thousands of former Nazi soldiers or widows across Europe continue to get monthly war stipends
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A man taking part in a march to honor member of the Latvian Legion SS units in Riga, Latvia, on March 16, 2019. (Courtesy: JFDA e.V. / Grischa Stanjek(
March 17, 2019, 3:23 am
Latvians march to honor troops who fought alongside Nazis
About 1,000 gather in Riga for annual march of veterans of local Waffen SS units, with some 50 counter-demonstrators separated by police
By ToI Staff and JTA
Kaja Kallas, leader of the Reform Party casts her ballot in a polling station during Estonia's general election in Tallin, on March 3, 2019. (Raigo PAJULA / AFP)
March 4, 2019, 2:36 am
Estonia’s liberal opposition wins election as far-right surges
Reform party leader Kaja Kallas rules out coalition with anti-immigration EKRE, which is led by son of man who served in Estonian Legion, part of Nazi German SS forces in WWII
By Polina KALANTAR and Mary SIBIERSKI
SS members carry flags with a swastika and names of German states and towns as they march towards the town hall of Nuremberg, Germany, September 10, 1935, to open the convention of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. (AP Photo)
February 20, 2019, 9:25 pm
Germany insists no former Nazi SS getting war pensions in Belgium
Berlin issues clarification after Belgian lawmakers demand end to war-victims’ pensions ‘for Belgian Nazi collaborators’
By Agencies
Soldiers of the Waffen-SS Wiking Division advancing into the Soviet Union in 1941 during Nazi Germany's Operation Barbarossa. (Wikipedia/Bundesarchiv/Hummel/CC BY-SA)
February 10, 2019, 12:38 pm
Finnish volunteers in SS units took part in WWII Nazi atrocities, Finland says
After an Israeli historian’s appeal to Finland’s president to examine murder of Jews, country’s state archives look into the role of Finns in the Waffen-SS drive eastward in 1941-3
By ToI Staff
Members of a delegation from Israel arrive for a ceremony to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp in Mauthausen, Austria, Sunday, May 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
November 23, 2018, 11:19 pm
95-year-old alleged SS camp guard charged in Germany
Hans Werner H. faces 36,000 counts of accessory to murder for his time as a guard at the Nazis’ Mauthausen concentration camp
By David Rising
July 12, 2018, 3:41 pm
The SS officer was a doctor first
Small wonder the baby he delivered grew up to be a birth coach and labor companion
Illustrative: People stand during an unveiling ceremony of the monument to Estonian soldiers fighting alongside the Nazis against the Soviet army, in Lihula, Estonia, Friday, Aug. 20, 2004. (AP Photo/NIPA)
June 30, 2018, 2:40 am
Jewish community protests after plaque honoring SS officer unveiled in Estonia
Across Eastern Europe, collaborators with the Nazis, including perpetrators of the Holocaust, are celebrated as heroes, often for their fight against the Soviets
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Undated illustrative image of Waffen-SS 'Wiking' division in Russia. (CC BY-SA Bild National Archives, Wikimedia Commons)
May 31, 2018, 5:51 pm
Finland to probe role of SS volunteers in WWII atrocities
Jerusalem’s Simon Wiesenthal Center requested investigation into actions of Finnish battalion serving within Nazi Germany’s Waffen SS
By AP
A man dressed in a pre-WWII Latvian military uniform salutes as veterans of the Latvian Legion, a force that was commanded by the German Nazi Waffen SS during WWII, and their sympathizers walk to the Monument of Freedom in Riga, Latvia on March 16, 2016. (Ilmars Znotins/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)
April 19, 2018, 1:27 am
After Nazi SS veterans hold annual march in Latvia square, one woman fights back
Some of them skinheads wearing fascist symbols, the marchers spark bitter debate among Latvians. Until recently, though, nobody sought to speak out for the victims
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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