Interesting fact about the 14th Waffen S.S “Galicia” Division. Members of whom likely are the majority of the people on the list.

They were due to be handed over to the Soviets at the end of the war. But their commander at the time was an ex-Polish Army veteran. And ironically a kinda sorta Polish Partisan. Pavlov Shandruk (The Collapse of the Reich was a very odd time) Begged former colleagues in the Polish Free Army and Polish-Government in exile to spare his men what in all likelihood would have been slow Deaths in Soviet Labor camps. If they weren’t shot outright.

The plea worked. Which is part of how Canada got large parts of their 900.

Interesting fact about the 14th Waffen S.S “Galicia” Division. Members of whom likely are the majority of the people on the list.

They were due to be handed over to the Soviets at the end of the war. But their commander at the time was an ex-Polish Army veteran. And ironically a kinda sorta Polish Partisan. Pavlov Shandruk (The Collapse of the Reich was a very odd time) Begged former colleagues in the Polish Free Army and Polish-Government in exile to spare his men what in all likelihood would have been slow Deaths in Soviet Labor camps. If they weren’t shot outright.

The plea worked.

Interesting fact about the 14th Waffen S.S “Galicia” Division. Members of whom likely are the majority of the people on the list.

They were due to be handed over to the Soviets at the end of the war. But their commander at the time was an ex-Polish Army veteran. And ironically a Polish Partizan. Pavlov Shandruk (The Collapse of the Reich was a very odd time) Begged former colleagues in the Polish Free Army and Polish-Government in exile to spare his men what in all likelihood would have been slow Deaths in Soviet Labor camps. If they weren’t shot outright.

The plea worked.