Apparently the 14th Waffen SS was unique in that it was the sole branch of the Nazis that didn’t do anything Nazi like, and never attacked the other Allies. Nope, just fought the communists.
How convenient.
Apparently the 14th Waffen SS was unique in that it was the sole branch of the Nazis that didn’t do anything Nazi like, and never attacked the other Allies. Nope, just fought the communists.
How convenient.
That’s the thing that also made the vote on deleting Yaroslav’s page irrelevant (now they’re debating in the edits if he was a fugitive). The entire organisation was considered criminal, ALL Nazis after the war were considered to be criminals, regardless of their personal involvement in atrocities or lack thereof. If you were in the Wehrmacht, you were a criminal. If you were in the Waffen-SS, you were a criminal. If you were in the SS, you were a criminal.
What defines a criminal is being tried for their crimes. It doesn’t matter if Yaroslav or other 14th division nazis did not commit war crimes or they can’t prove that, just being part of it (especially as he bragged about it on his blog in the 2010s) is enough to convict him.