• GnastyGnuts [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    “In Ukraine, the SS Galicia Division is perceived as heroes”

    I’m curious how the Jewish Ukrainians feel about this, although I imagine the ones that are still there have learned to keep their heads down for safety.

    “the coat of arms of the SS Galicia division, which is taken from the Lviv coat of arms”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv_pogroms_(1941)

    "The Lviv pogroms were the consecutive pogroms and massacres of Jews in June and July 1941 in the city of Lwów in German-occupied Eastern Poland/Western Ukraine (now Lviv, Ukraine). The massacres were perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists (specifically, the OUN), German death squads (Einsatzgruppen), and urban population from 30 June to 2 July, and from 25 to 29 July, during the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Thousands of Jews were killed both in the pogroms and in the Einsatzgruppen killings. "