Recently learned that Peter Savaryn, who was chancellor at the University of Alberta from 1982-1986, was a veteran of the Waffen SS from 1943-45. Canada is a funny country.
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It’s a mistake to lump German Waffen-SS with non-German. The latter were created as the war got worse for Germany and were Waffen-SS because that was supposedly a volunteer organisation outside the military so Germany could pretend it wasn’t conscripting conquered folks.
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I do not know the history of the Galician division but for others ‘volunteering’ meant choosing to pick up arms against Soviets rather than pick up shovels for Germans behind the lines, far away from their homes.
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