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Yaroslav Hunka ( Ukrainian: Ярослав Ількович Гунька, Polish: Jarosław Hunka; born 1925) is a Ukrainian-Canadian World War II veteran of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) —abbreviated [a] as SS Galizien —a military formation of Nazi Germany. [b] Hunka was born in Urman, [10] Second Polish ...
Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany. Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany took place during the occupation of Poland and the Ukrainian SSR, USSR, by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. [1] By September 1941, the German-occupied territory of Ukraine was divided between two new German administrative units, the District of Galicia ...
Paul Joseph Goebbels ( German: [ˈpaʊ̯l ˈjoːzɛf ˈɡœbl̩s] ⓘ; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician and philologist who was the Gauleiter (district leader) of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler 's closest and most ...
Oskar Dirlewanger. The Dirlewanger Brigade, also known as the SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger (1944), [1] or the 36th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS ( German: 36. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS ), or The Black Hunters ( German: Die schwarzen Jäger ), [2] was a unit of the Waffen-SS during World War II. The unit, named after its commander ...
Of the six million Jews killed during the Holocaust, two million were women. Between 1941 and 1945, Jewish women were imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps or hiding to avoid capture by the Nazis under Adolf Hitler's regime in Germany. [1] [2] They were also sexually harassed, raped, verbally abused, beaten, and used for Nazi human ...
Kharkov Trial. The Kharkov Trial was a war crimes trial held in front of a Soviet military tribunal in December 1943 in Kharkov, Soviet Union. Defendants included one Soviet collaborator, as well as German military, police, and SS personnel responsible for implementing the occupational policies during the German–Soviet War of 1941–45.
Conviction (s) Crimes against humanity. Trial. Stutthof trials. Criminal penalty. Death. Ewa Paradies (17 December 1920 – 4 July 1946) was a Nazi concentration camp overseer. In August 1944, Paradies arrived at the Stutthof SK-III camp for training as an Aufseherin, or overseer. She soon finished training and became a wardress.
Klaus Barbie. Nikolaus Barbie (25 October 1913 – 25 September 1991) was a German officer of the SS and SD who worked in Vichy France during World War II. He became known as the " Butcher of Lyon " for having personally tortured prisoners—primarily Jews and members of the French Resistance —as the head of the Gestapo in Lyon.