“The Nazi regime was a genocidal regime,” McBride said. “This idea of parsing these things out — that ‘We were the good SS division,’ or ‘The good police unit,’ or ‘The good mobile death battalion’ — is not the strongest of arguments.”
https://www.inquirer.com/news/st-mary-ukrainian-catholic-cemetary-ss-memorial-20230903.html #Philadelphia #NaziMemorial #ElkinsPark #WaffenSS
#philadelphia #nazimemorial #elkinspark #waffenss
« Je propose une interprétation de ce qui s'est passé qui est de dire qu'on est dans une forme de prolongement en #France de ce qu'on a appelé sur le front de l'Est la Shoah par balles càd l'élimination physique de populations entières comprenant des femmes et des enfants »
- #GillesAlfonsi, auteur de #SortisDeLOmbre
#Résistants, #communistes, #Tsiganes : l'histoire oubliée des massacrés du #23juin1944
#regards #livres #roms #waffenss #histfr #resistance #23juin1944 #tsiganes #communistes #resistants #sortisdelombre #gillesalfonsi #france
Jochen Partsch gave a great speech highlighting the parallels between the #WagnerGroup and the #WaffenSS and describing the importance of supporting #Ukraine not just with humanitarian aid but also with arms
#wagnergroup #waffenss #ukraine
The #Holocaust started with the systematic execution of #Jews in the Ukraine. On 29-30 Sept 1941 alone, 33,371 of those native in #Kyiv were shot over the ravine of #BabiYar. The #WaffenSS used the infrastructure of the #NKVD in its barbarism. In total, it deliberately murdered 900,000. 3/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/babi-yar-ukraine-massacre-holocaust-180979687/
#nkvd #waffenss #BabiYar #kyiv #jews #holocaust
A Scandinavian volunteer of the German “Wiking” Division in action on the Eastern Front - 1943
#worldwartwo #worldwar2 #ww2 #worldatwar #secondworldwar #conflict #history #worldwartwopictures #war #worldwar2pictures #historyofwar #historyofwarfare #waffen #waffenss #easternfront #wehrmacht #sovietunion
#worldwartwo #worldwar2 #ww2 #worldatwar #secondworldwar #conflict #history #worldwartwopictures #war #worldwar2pictures #historyofwar #historyofwarfare #waffen #waffenss #easternfront #wehrmacht #sovietunion