IIRC, he fought the Russians to protect Ukraine from their invasion. He had no other allegiance to Germany or Nazis. It was a "the enemy of my enemy is my ally" situation.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Man was literally a part of the 1st Galician division of the SS

[–] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago

He was literally in a volunteer division of the SS. Wtf do you mean no allegiance to the nazis? He was a nazi.

IIRC, he fought the Russians to protect Ukraine from their invasion.

Wtf is this historical revisionism? The soviets did not invade Ukraine, Germany did. He was fighting for the invaders.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Ukraine/The-Nazi-occupation-of-Soviet-Ukraine

Read this. Seriously.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He volunteered to be part of the waffen ss, they mostly terrorized the civilian population and helped with extermination, they weren't involved in actual warfighting that much and when they did fight they lost badly because they weren't meant to be military, they were meant to terrorize civilians and help with extermination.

[–] SMT42@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah he wasn't a nazi, he was a nazi ally

Not... much better, but could be worse?

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Most Ukrainians fought for their country as part of the red army. Something like 28:1. The nazi collaborators of the waffen SS like the fascist who was celebrated by the Canadian parliament mostly did "antipartisan activities" which involved killing a bunch of Jewish people.