For reasons that have yet to be explained, a Canadian government agency has rebuffed a request by B’nai Brith Canada and its supporters to release a list of suspected Nazi war criminals who were permitted to settle in Canada following World War II.
Among them were Germans who served in the German army and Ukrainians who joined the Galician SS division, which fought alongside the Wehrmacht and committed war crimes.
The data B’nai Brith has requested under the Access to Information law is contained in documents generated by the federal government’s war crimes commission, which was created in 1985 and headed by Justice Jules Deschenes.
For nearly four decades, Library and Archives Canada has declined to release the material to the public, a decision that is baffling and morally unacceptable.
As David Granovsky, B’nai Brith’s director of government relations, put it in a statement on December 19, “We must prevent history from repeating itself. It is imperative that everyone understands the degree to which this country was complicit in enabling Nazis to escape accountability for their crimes.” (more...)
Canada Should Release Nazi War Criminal List
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