The SS Galizien is accused of burning Polish villagers alive in February 1944 as they liquidated Huta Pieniacka. “But what is a war crime with what the Russians did?” said Tabora, one of the men Wiesenthal sought. Two others were alleged by the U.S.S.R. to have committed war crimes. The newspaper found more than two dozen soldiers who served in the Ukrainian-bred SS Galizien division, formed in 1943 to be one of Adolf Hitler’s elite paramilitary units. At least 25 former members of a notorious Nazi special unit rumored to have committed unthinkable atrocities are living free in Britain, including two ex-lieutenants who drew the interest of a famed Nazi hunter, The Sun reported.

Source: Fox News August 03, 2016 13:41 UTC