Commander of Nazi-led unit lives in US

[struggle4progress]

By DAVID RISING, RANDY HERSCHAFT and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA, Associated Press
Updated 12:18 pm, Friday, June 14, 2013

Michael Karkoc, 94, told American authorities in 1949 that he had performed no military service during World War II, concealing his work as an officer and founding member of the SS-led Ukrainian Self Defense Legion and later as an officer in the SS Galician Division ... The Galician Division and a Ukrainian nationalist organization he served in were both on a secret American government blacklist of organizations whose members were forbidden from entering the United States ...

... statements from men in his unit and other documentation confirm the Ukrainian company he commanded massacred civilians, and suggest that Karkoc was at the scene of these atrocities as the company leader. Nazi SS files say he and his unit were also involved in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising ...

Polish prosecutors announced Friday .. that they will investigate Karkoc and provide "every possible assistance" to the U.S. Department of Justice ... The AP evidence of Karkoc's wartime activities has also prompted German authorities to express interest in exploring whether there is enough to prosecute. In Germany, Nazis with "command responsibility" can be charged with war crimes ...

Karkoc refused to discuss his wartime past at his home in Minneapolis, and repeated efforts to set up an interview, using his son as an intermediary, were unsuccessful ...

http://www.timesunion.com/news/crime/article/AP-IMPACT-Commander-of-Nazi-led-unit-lives-in-US-4600219.php#page-1

[Octafish]

1. Track each of them down.

Galician SS were among the worst of war criminals.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=1739696&mesg_id=1739696

[DisgustipatedinCA]

3. I watched a BBC documentary about Treblinka yesterday evening

Nazis are to be stood up against a wall and shot.

[Octafish]

7. They are not monsters. They are humans...

...and thus responsible for their criminality.

Many came here after the war, recruited by CIA to fight the commies.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1547206

Justice denied, so the rich can sleep well.

[Nimajneb Nilknarf]

2. One of his long-time neighbors was quoted on the radio referring to him as a pillar of the community

A really nice old man, loved by all, active in his church, etc.

[COLGATE4]

4. Yeah, except for that little thing in 1944 n/t

[arely staircase]

6. so if you overlook the genocide

he's a really nice guy

[Behind the Aegis]

5. I wonder if he was one of the ones responsible for pruning a huge branch from my family tree!

My relatives were in Belarus and the Ukraine. The ones who didn't flee to the US, went to Poland, mostly the boonies, a few set up in Warsaw.