Ukrainian SS Galicia Division in Britain: War Crimes Questions

Soviet citizens captured in German

army uniform or who had served the Third Reich in any capacity.

But the problem was in

determining precisely where the men came from.

If they were from Eastern Ukraine,

which before the war had been under Soviet

rule,

they were liable to be deported.

But if they came from Western Ukraine,

which before the war had been under Polish

rule, they were not liable to be sent back.

Eight thousand men of the

Ukrainian SS division into Britain.

It was unprecedented for such

a large number of men to

be brought into the United Kingdom

without going through any of the normal channels.

The news leaked out that a

division of Ukrainian

soldiers who fought for the Germans was arriving in England.

Questions were asked in Parliament

that men who'd been involved in

war crimes were now being housed in

camps in Britain without

apparently having been very

carefully screened.

Member of the Galicia division has ever

been tried for war

crimes in Great Britain.

And we could find no evidence that any

member has even been investigated

for

crimes committed in the service of the Nazis.

Government records

which could help expose the guilty men

have

never been made public.