And so the information in the above quotation leads to several more questions:
(1) As the population of The Netherlands is small, and as it contributed the
largest number of Waffen SS divisions, this gives The Netherlands the largest per
capita contribution to the Waffen SS of any country. Would you conclude from this that
the people of The Netherlands are the most anti-Semitic in the world? And following
the same line of reasoning, would you conclude that the people of Belgium are the next
most anti-Semitic? And also that as the population of France is approximately equal to
the population of Ukraine, and as each of these contributed one Waffen SS division,
that the French are approximately as anti-Semitic as the Ukrainians?
(2) As you have expended considerable energy attacking the former members of the
Galicia Division as war criminals, I wonder if you have expended any similar energy
attacking former members of The Netherlands, Belgium, and French Waffen SS divisions in
the same way? For example, have you demanded any investigation of The Netherlands
Waffen SS, and as a result has the government of The Netherlands ever created a
commission on war criminals comparable to Canada's Deschenes Commission on War
Criminals? And have you done so in Belgium? In France?
If not, then why not? Why do you single out the Galicia Division? How is the
Galicia Division different from the other Waffen SS divisions?
(3) If in comparison to several other countries, Ukraine contributed
proportionately fewer numbers to the Waffen SS, or to any of the German armed forces,
then shouldn't you as a Nazi hunter, commend or thank Ukrainians for their relatively
small contribution to the German war effort?
(4) Are you aware that the chief motive behind the creation of the Galicia
Division was to prevent the Soviet re-occupation of Ukraine? Are you aware that in
consequence, the Galicia Division was organized with the proviso that it not be used
against the Western allies, but only against the Soviets on the Eastern front; and that
in fact, the only use to which the Galicia Division was ever put was against the
Soviets in the Battle of Brody? If you are aware of this, then why did you not mention
it on the 60 Minutes broadcast in which you were the chief witness and the Galicia
Division the chief subject of discussion? If you are not aware of this, then why does
60 Minutes consider you an authority on World War II?
Would you happen to know if the Waffen SS divisions of other countries were
created under the same proviso?
(5) Given that Canada's Deschenes Commission on War Criminals failed to identify
even a single member of the Galicia Division as calling for further investigation; and
given that neither you nor anyone else has ever had any member of the Galicia Division
convicted of any crime, or even tried for any crime; and, most importantly, given that
neither you nor anyone else has ever even specified any crime of which the Galicia
Division as a whole, or any member of the Galicia Division, might have been guilty
given all this, I wonder if the time has not finally come when you have to admit that
your obsession with the Galicia Division has been misplaced?
And would you happen to know if the Waffen SS divisions of The Netherlands,
Belgium, and France have proven to be as free from blame as has the Ukrainian Galicia
Division?
Sincerely yours,
Lubomyr Prytulak
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Wiesenthal Letter 19 Sep 12/97 Testimony of Erwin Schulz
September 12, 1997