Memorials in Canada to Nazis and Nazi collaborators
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Canada has several monuments that to varying degrees commemorate people and groups accused of collaboration with Nazi forces. International Military Tribunal's verdict at the Nuremberg Trials declares the entire Waffen-SS a "criminal organization" guilty of war crimes.[1] Many of these monuments have been vandalized by activists at differing times as "Nazi monuments". Canadian police apologized for originally stating that the anti-Nazi vandalism of those monuments is motivated by hate.[2][3] Leaders of the Canadian Ukrainian community said the Ukrainian monuments are not related to Nazism.[4]
Draža Mihailović statue, Hamilton
There is a statue in Hamilton, Ontario of Draža Mihailović, a Yugoslav Serb general during World War II. He was the leader of the Chetniks, a royalist and Serbian nationalist movement and guerrilla force, who collaborated with the Nazis following the German invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941.[5]
Mount Pétain
A mountain formerly known as Mount Pétain, but with no current official name, is located on the border of the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia. It was named in 1918 after the then-to-be Nazi collaborator, the French Marshal Philippe Pétain,[6][7] who was then an honoured war hero for the Allies of World War I. The name was retained despite the later reversal in Pétain's reputation after his having been Head of State of Vichy France and being partly responsible for the murder of 76,000 Jews.[8][9]
The name was rescinded by the governments of the two provinces in which the mountain sits in 2019 and 2021 respectively. As of July 2022, neither of the government had decided on a new name.[10]
See also
- List of Holocaust memorials and museums in Canada
- List of Holodomor memorials and monuments in Canada
- Monument of Lihula, Estonia
- Monuments in the United States to Nazi collaborators
References
- ^ "Waffen-SS". jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
- ^ Carter, Adam (17 July 2020). "Police apologize for saying anti-Nazi vandalism was 'hate motivated'". Canada Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
- ^ Pugliese, David (17 July 2020). "Graffiti on monument commemorating Nazi SS division being investigated as a hate crime by police". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
- ^ Holt, Faygie (2021-08-16). "Canadian Jewish group renews campaign to remove World War II-era monuments". JNS.org. Retrieved 2022-11-21.
- ^ "Nazi collaborator monuments in Canada". The Forward.
- ^ "Mount Petain". cdnrockiesdatabases.ca. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
- ^ "Mount Petain". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
- ^ Golinkin, Lev. "Nazi collaborator monuments around the world". The Forward. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
- ^ "Mount Pétain". BC Geographical Names. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
- ^ "Canadian mountain no longer named for Nazi collaborator thanks to father and son". CBC Radio. July 5, 2022. Retrieved July 6, 2022.
External links
- Owen Schalk, Why isn’t Canadian media condemning Nazi collaborator Roman Shukhevych?, Canadian Dimension, November 3 2022.
- Harrison Samphir, How did a monument to a Nazi SS division end up being erected in Canada?, The Georgia Straight, 25 July 2020.