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| The Simon Wiesenthal Centre, as a private non-governmental organization, faults the ] efforts to investigate and prosecute Nazi war criminals.<ref name="TheStar" /><ref name="NationalPost" /> The Simon Wiesenthal Center claims that approximately 2,000 Nazi war criminals obtained Canadian citizenship by providing false information.<ref name="Yahoo"></ref> | |||
| In 1985, the ] was created as a Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals in Canada.<ref name="Yahoo" /> The Deschênes Commission recommended changes to the ] to allow for the ] or ] of suspected war criminals.<ref name="Yahoo" /> However, only a small number of cases have been pursued.<ref name="Yahoo" /> | |||
| In 2000, the ]<ref>''Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act'', S.C. 2000, c. 24.</ref> passed as a ] of the ], which implements Canada's obligations under the ].<ref>, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, gc.ca.</ref> | |||
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Vladimir Katriuk (born 1921) is a Ukrainian immigrant in Canada accused by Simon Wiesenthal Center of being an active participant in the Khatyn massacre during the Second World War. In 2012, Katriuk was ranked number four on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's most wanted list of former Nazi's. Katriuk has denied any involvement in war crimes.
Background
In 1951, Vladimir Katriuk immigrated to Canada. Since 1959, Katriuk has been a beekeeper in Quebec. Currently, Katriuk owns a beekeeping farm in Ormstown, Quebec and resides in a small house on the property with his wife.
Canadian citizenship
In 1999, a Federal Court of Canada decision concluded that Katriuk immigrated to Canada in 1951 under a pseudonym and obtained his Canadian citizenship by providing false information. The court concluded that Katriuk had been a member of the Schutzmannschaft Batallion 118, which was implicated in numerous atrocities in Belarus, including the deaths of thousands of Jews there between 1942 and 1944.. In mid 1944, Katriuk joined the French Resistance, and was fighting against the Nazis. In September 1944 as a private he joined the French Foreign Legion, and was one of twenty to twenty-five "volunteers" who were asked by their French commanders to go to the front to fight the German army. At the front, V. Katriuk was placed in charge of a machine gun and, during the course of his participation, was severely injured. He spent two and one half months in an American hospital in France. In 1945, Katriuk again fought with the allies, this time at the Italian front near Monaco. It was during this period of time that the Second World War came to an end.
The Federal Court of Canada found no evidence that Kartiuk had participated in war crimes. In 2007, the Cabinet of Canada decided not to revoke Kartriuk's citizenship.
Schutzmannschaft Batallion 118
Katriuk's Nazi ties were known at the time of the Federal Court of Canada decision, but more details did not emerge until the release in 2008 of the KGB interrogation reports from the trial of of one of the batallion officers named Vasiura. The new KGB documents claim that Katriuk was directly involved in the Khatyn massacre. In an article written by Lund University historian Per Ander Rudling, relying on KGB interrogation reports, wrote that “One witness stated that Volodymyr Katriuk was a particularly active participant in the atrocity: he reportedly lay behind the stationary machine gun, firing rounds on anyone attempting to escape the flames,” Another war crimes trial in 1973 heard that Katriuk and two others killed a group of Belarusian loggers earlier on that fateful day, suspecting they were part of a popular uprising. "I saw how Ivankiv was firing with a machine-gun upon the people who were running for cover in the forest, and how Katriuk and Meleshko were shooting the people lying on the road," the witness said. Katriuk was a member of Schutzmannschaft Batallion 118 that helped the Nazi's to create "dead zones." The dead zone policy involved exterminating Soviet partisans who had launched ambushes against Nazi forces.
Later on Katriuk defected from the unit and even participated in the fight against Nazi Germany.
See also
- Helmut Oberlander
- Imre Finta
- List of Axis personnel indicted for war crimes
- Nazi hunter
- Ukrainian collaborationism with the Axis powers
- Ukrainische Hilfspolizei
References
- ^ Accused Nazi living as Quebec beekeeper
- ^ Ottawa to re-examine former Nazi’s past after evidence emerges linking him to 1943 massacre
- ^ From Nazi to beekeeper? Accused war criminal living quiet life in Quebec
- Federal Court of Canada decision Docket: T-2409-96 The Minister of Citizenship and Immigration v. Vladimir Katriuk
- Petrouchkevitch, Natalia. (1999). Victims and Criminals: Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118. Wilfrid Laurier University. ISBN 0612448231
- Alleged Nazi living as Quebec beekeeper
- Federal Court of Canada decision Docket: T-2409-96 The Minister of Citizenship and Immigration v. Vladimir Katriuk
- ^ New information links Montrealer to WWII massacre
- Holocaust Genocide Studies (Spring 2012) 26(1): 29-58 The Khatyn Massacre in Belorussia: A Historical Controversy Revisited
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