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Canada’s anti-communist memorial honours hundreds of Nazis
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Memorial to the Victims of Communism in Ottawa
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THE Canadian federal government has ensnared itself in yet another embarrassing Nazi scandal. The Department of Canadian Heritage was just informed that over half of the 550 names engraved on its Memorial to the Victims of Communism in Ottawa are Nazis or have links to fascist groups.
The Ottawa Citizen newspaper obtained a copy of a report commissioned by the government, which found that at least 330 of the supposed “victims” were members of fascist organisations or were collaborators with Hitler’s Germany during World War II.
Many were perpetrators of war crimes in the USSR, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and other countries occupied by the Nazis.
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