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concentration camps, and carried out no SS functions? I wonder if you are aware of

this, as you typically - perhaps always? - drop the qualification "Waffen" and refer to

members of the Galicia Division simply as members of the "SS," which gives the

misleading impression that combat soldiers were administrators of concentration camps.

If you are already aware of the distinction between the SS and the Waffen SS, then I

wonder that you would allow yourself to present the misleading picture that you have

been presenting. If you are unaware of this distinction, then I wonder how it came to

be that you are accorded the status of an expert witness on World War II events, as you

were on the 60 Minutes broadcast The Ugly Face of Freedom on October 23, 1994. Would

you be able to throw any light on this question?

But on top of that, you must have become aware during your long career as a Nazi

hunter that Ukraine was not unique in providing the German armed forces with Waffen SS

troops. Below, I reproduce a quote from an interview by Slavko Nowytski of Professor

Norman Davies, historian at the University of London, and author of the recent Europe:

A History, published by Oxford University Press:

In discussing the question of collaborating with Germany Prof. Davies

noted that, "A large number of the volunteers for the Waffen SS came

from Western Europe. The nation which supplied it the largest number

of divisions was the Netherlands [four]. There were two Belgian

divisions, there was a French Waffen SS. To my mind, it's rather

surprising that Ukraine, which is a much larger country [than the

Netherlands or Belgium] supplied only one Waffen SS Division.... It's

surprising that there were so few Ukrainians [in the German Army].

Many people don't know, for example, that there were far more Russians

fighting alongside the Wehrmacht or in the various German armies than

there were Ukrainians.... Thanks to Soviet propaganda, the Russian

contribution to the Nazi war effort has been forgotten, whereas the

Ukrainian contribution has been remembered, I think, too strongly."

(Andrew Gregorovich, Forum, No. 95, Spring, 1997, p. 34)

And so the information in the above quotation leads to several more questions:

(1) As the population of The Netherlands is small, and as it contributed the

largest number of Waffen SS divisions, this gives The Netherlands the largest per

capita contribution to the Waffen SS of any country. Would you conclude from this that

the people of The Netherlands are the most anti-Semitic in the world? And following

the same line of reasoning, would you conclude that the people of Belgium are the next

most anti-Semitic? And also that as the population of France is approximately equal to

the population of Ukraine, and as each of these contributed one Waffen SS division,

that the French are approximately as anti-Semitic as the Ukrainians?

(2) As you have expended considerable energy attacking the former members of the

Galicia Division as war criminals, I wonder if you have expended any similar energy

attacking former members of The Netherlands, Belgium, and French Waffen SS divisions in

the same way? For example, have you demanded any investigation of The Netherlands

Waffen SS, and as a result has the government of The Netherlands ever created a

commission on war criminals comparable to Canada's Deschenes Commission on War

Criminals? And have you done so in Belgium? In France?

If not, then why not? Why do you single out the Galicia Division? How is the

Galicia Division different from the other Waffen SS divisions?

(3) If in comparison to several other countries, Ukraine contributed

proportionately fewer numbers to the Waffen SS, or to any of the German armed forces,

then shouldn't you as a Nazi hunter, commend or thank Ukrainians for their relatively

small contribution to the German war effort?

(4) Are you aware that the chief motive behind the creation of the Galicia

Division was to prevent the Soviet re-occupation of Ukraine? Are you aware that in

consequence, the Galicia Division was organized with the proviso that it not be used

against the Western allies, but only against the Soviets on the Eastern front; and that

in fact, the only use to which the Galicia Division was ever put was against the

Soviets in the Battle of Brody? If you are aware of this, then why did you not mention

it on the 60 Minutes broadcast in which you were the chief witness and the Galicia

Division the chief subject of discussion? If you are not aware of this, then why does

60 Minutes consider you an authority on World War II?

Would you happen to know if the Waffen SS divisions of other countries were

created under the same proviso?

(5) Given that Canada's Deschenes Commission on War Criminals failed to identify

even a single member of the Galicia Division as calling for further investigation; and

given that neither you nor anyone else has ever had any member of the Galicia Division

convicted of any crime, or even tried for any crime; and, most importantly, given that