Lovely_sombrero [he/him]

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Cake day: July 26th, 2020

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  • Forward magazine’s ongoing “spot the Nazi” article series seems to be good, at least by their standards. I guess it is not difficult to write up the names of streets and monuments mailed in by your readers.

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    London, Ontario, a city of over 420,000, is home to Max Brose Drive, named for German industrialist Max Brose.

    Edmonton has a street honoring Peter Savaryn, a veteran of SS Galizien, a Ukrainian division in the Waffen-SS, which was the military arm of the Nazi Party

    Two Nazi collaborator honors in New Jersey have been added to the project. The first is SS Galizien’s divisional insignia on a monument celebrating “Fighters for Ukrainian Freedom” in a cemetery owned by Saint Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Memorial Church in South Bound Brook. It was originally reported on by researcher Moss Robeson on X.

    In 2023, a similar monument in Philadelphia was boarded up following a Forward investigation.

    The nearby city of New Brunswick has a scout lodge named after Hungarian Prime Minister Pál Teleki, who had championed and enacted numerous antisemitic laws stripping his country’s Jews of their rights, a key prelude on the road to genocide; around 550,000 Hungarian Jews were exterminated during the Holocaust.

    Readers have continued contacting the Forward with streets and monuments that had been previously overlooked. One such case is Finland’s monuments to the nation’s SS volunteers. Several years ago, research by Dr. André Swanström resulted in a report concluding it was “very likely” these soldiers murdered Jews.

    We’ve also seen Nazi honors removed: In addition to Philadelphia, a second SS Galizien monument in a Toronto suburb was taken down in 2024, while NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida recently renamed a conference facility that honored an SS officer.