Governor-General Mary Simon has apologized for the appointment to the Order of Canada of Peter Savaryn, a veteran who served in the same Nazi-led Waffen-SS division as Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old ...

The office of Governor General Mary Simon says it "deeply regrets" appointing Peter Savaryn to the Order of Canada in 1987. Mr Savaryn died in 2017, aged 90 Canada's Governor General Mary Simon has ...

Otto Kumm rose from frontline regimental commander to lead Waffen-SS divisions in some of the war’s fiercest battles. After 1945, he faced extradition demands for crimes committed in the Balkans—but ...

Peter Savaryn served in the same Second World War Nazi unit as a man recognized in the House of Commons last month You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an ...

Finnish volunteers in SS units took part in WWII Nazi atrocities, Finland says After an Israeli historian’s appeal to Finland’s president to examine murder of Jews, country’s state archives look into ...

Canada's Governor General Mary Simon has apologised for a top Canadian honour awarded to a former Nazi soldier nearly four decades ago. Peter Savaryn, a former chancellor of the University of Alberta, ...