Ukrainian Association in Baraboo honors Nazi collaborators with statues at children's summer camp
A Chicago-based Ukrainian Youth Association owns a property in Baraboo where kids attend summer camp in the bluffs near the Wisconsin Dells — it’s also the location of statues honoring four Ukrainians who aided the Nazis during the Holocaust.
The property is miles away from downtown Baraboo and the front gate keeps out members of the public, but in a community that has had its own brush with antisemitic hate, the statues’ presence is alarming.
An investigation by the Jewish news outlet The Forward found more than 300 monuments to and statues of Nazi collaborators around the world, including two in Wisconsin — the Ukrainians in Baraboo and a Serbian general in Milwaukee, Dragoljub ‘Draza’ Mihailovic, who was killed for collaborating with Hitler.
The existence of the statues was unveiled as communities across the U.S. and Wisconsin debate who and what should be memorialized with public statues in the wake of widespread protests for racial justice.
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... and Nazis. He raided Nazi supply trains for weapons, and he looked to the Allies for support. The Brittish backed Tito and the Partisans over him. The US backed him.
In 1945 Truman issued a medal to Mihailovic for rescuing over 500 American flier shot down in Nazi occupied Yugoslavia.
The Germans also offered a reward for his capture.
He's a complicated person, and he has been "rehabilitated" in Serbia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dra%C5%BEa_Mihailovi%C4%87
