Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Canadian ‘Victims of Communism’ monument features Nazis – media

from RT

Canadian authorities could remove more than half of the names from a planned Memorial to the Victims of Communism in Ottawa due to suspicions that many of the individuals honored could be linked to the Nazis, local media reported Monday.

According to a document obtained by the Ottawa Citizen through an information disclosure request, the Department of Canadian Heritage found that out of the 553 people and organizations originally planned to be mentioned on the monument, 50 to 60 of the names were “were likely directly linked to the Nazis.”

Furthermore, a 2023 report for Canadian Heritage insisted that over 330 names be excluded from the list “to be on the safe side,” as there was not enough information about possible links to the Nazis. It was proposed to remove other names because of there being no direct link to Canada, the outlet said...

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1 comment:

  1. They don't want history archives revealed and history as taught changed to the truth, which is why all you see in memorials is the other side, their side.

    https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/10/13/Canada-Let-Thousands-Former-Nazis/#:~:text=But%20in%20May%201950,%208,000%20Ukrainians%20detained%20in
    The Hunka affair should lead to finally opening our war criminal archives. I saw first-hand why they are explosive.

    The Deschênes Commission, as it was also called, reported in 1986 and did confirm that there were many war criminals in Canada. But a large part of its report was kept secret, and the public report, in my view, ignored the issue of why there were tens of thousands of former Nazis in Canada, including a very large number of individuals whom the Nuremberg courts after the war labelled as war criminals.

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