Jewish Ukrainian persecuted for death of Hitler collaborator

This is a 10 February 1943 Dutch nazi propaganda video. It is about the burial of Dutch General H.A. Seyffardt, the commander of the Dutch Waffen SS fighters collaborating with Adolf Hitler’s war. The Dutch SS men participated in many Holocaust atrocities in the Soviet Union, especially in the Ukrainian Soviet Republic. On 5 February 1943, Dutch resistance group against the nazi occupation of the Netherlands CS-6 killed Seyffardt. Nazi propaganda in the Netherlands, as, eg, in this video depicted Seyffardt as a hero and CS-6 as ‘terrorists‘. Most people in the Netherlands saw Seyffardt as a traitor. People like CS-6, after the end of the German occupation, were honoured by the Dutch government as heroes.

In the government of Ukraine today, values seem to be upside down in this.

From daily The Morning Star in Britain:

Ukraine: Jewish war hero probed over killing of WWII nazi collaborator

Wednesday 3rd May 2017

UKRAINE’S far-right coup regime has launched a murder probe into a Jewish war hero for killing a nazi collaborator in battle.

Colonel Boris Steckler faces trial over the 1952 death of Neil Hasiewicz in a gun battle in Rivne Oblast on Ukraine’s western border.

Russia’s Pravda reported last week that the case was launched on April 18. Col Steckler does not deny he killed the terrorist who served as a fascist propagandist and district judge during the WWII nazi occupation.

Since the 2014 Maidan Square coup, backed by the US and the EU, the government has sought to rehabilitate nazi collaborators.

Yesterday marked the third anniversary of the Odessa trade union house massacre, with still no prospect of justice for the victims from the Kiev authorities.

Over 40 people were killed when neo-nazi thugs besieged pro-democracy protesters inside the building before setting it alight, blocking the exits so they couldn’t escape.

27 thoughts on “Jewish Ukrainian persecuted for death of Hitler collaborator”

I am not surprised. Nothing good towards Jews is expected from the Ukrainians. I am surprised that so many Jews are still there and more are traveling back and forth to take advantage of economic opportunities. Doesn’t history teach us anything?

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petrel41 on May 3, 2017 at 6:23 pm said:

Hi Dolly, thanks for your comment!

I agree that, especially in the present political situation, there is much anti-Semitism in Ukraine. However, I would not blame ALL Ukrainians for that.

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- koolkosherkitchen on May 3, 2017 at 6:30 pm said:
  
  I would be the last one to blame ALL anybody, of any ethnic group, but anti-Semitism is a very deeply ingrained sentiment there, going back to 12th century. I have lived there, traveled extensively, and worked with them. Government-sanctioned attitude brings out the worst in the population, unfortunately.
  
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  - petrel41 on May 3, 2017 at 6:39 pm said:
    
    Indeed, if an ‘”orange” Ukrainian government declares nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera a ‘national hero’ .. rescinded by the successor government … then made a ‘national hero’ again by the post-Maidan Poroshenko government … then it is to expected that anti-Semitism.,like in Banders’s movement will increase again:
    
    https://dearkitty1.wordpress.com/2010/04/03/ukrainian-nazi-collaborators-medal-annulled/
    
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    - koolkosherkitchen on May 3, 2017 at 6:44 pm said:
      
      Certainly!
      
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      - petrel41 on May 3, 2017 at 6:46 pm said:
        
        Yes, some people may think in such a situation: ‘If someone whom the government calls a national hero was an anti-Semite, then supposedly anti-Semitism is not wrong’.
        
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        koolkosherkitchen on May 3, 2017 at 7:06 pm said:
        
        But they’ve never thought it was wrong; it wasn’t was centuries, why would it be now?
        
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        petrel41 on May 3, 2017 at 7:08 pm said:
        
        True. But government decisions like this may just be enough to push people who used to be not sure into the wrong direction.
        
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        koolkosherkitchen on May 3, 2017 at 7:11 pm said:
        
        Give them a “license to kill,” so to speak. Think of pogroms between 1905 – 1913; the “Black Hundred” was created by the government.
        
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        petrel41 on May 3, 2017 at 7:14 pm said:
        
        Yes. And the infamous anti-Semitic forgery “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” was probably written by the Ochrana, the czar’s secret police.
        
        https://dearkitty1.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/greek-nazi-recites-anti-semitic-protocols-in-parliament/
        
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        koolkosherkitchen on May 4, 2017 at 12:01 am said:
        
        Ochranka’s authorship is one of the theories. There are others. Regardless, the ideas are very much alive and kicking, and circulating right now.
        
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        petrel41 on May 4, 2017 at 6:11 am said:
        
        To me, the most convincing theory is by historian James Webb, in The Occult Establishment, that the author was Ochrana agent and noblewoman Julianka Glinka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuliana_Glinka who plagiarized a satire about French Emperor Napoleon III which she had found in a French library.
        
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        koolkosherkitchen on May 4, 2017 at 7:11 pm said:
        
        I am familiar with this one, especially because she was a descendant of a famous composer, but the question is, who wrote the original satire. Another theory is that it was a reaction to the frankist movement of 18th century, and yet another one places it even earlier, at the end of 17th century. Who knows?
        
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        petrel41 on May 4, 2017 at 7:16 pm said:
        
        Hi Dolly, the original satire was Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu (Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu), a 1864 political satire by Maurice Joly:
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dialogue_in_Hell_Between_Machiavelli_and_Montesquieu
        
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        koolkosherkitchen on May 4, 2017 at 7:22 pm said:
        
        Thank you so much for this reference; I didn’t know.
        
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        petrel41 on May 4, 2017 at 7:31 pm said:
        
        My pleasure, dear Dolly 🙂
        
        Another source for the Protocols was a chapter from Biarritz, a 1868 novel by the antisemitic German novelist Hermann Goedsche, which had been translated into Russian in 1872:
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Goedsche
        
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        koolkosherkitchen on May 4, 2017 at 7:34 pm said:
        
        Yes, that one was a reaction to Jacob Frank’s false messianism. It was widely quoted in communist propaganda in the 60s and 70s.
        
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