#remember this?

[happyheidi]

[wildbluesorbit]

bringing this back today because we moved on way too quickly😮‍💨

[zvaigzdelasas]

The Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals, headed by Justice Jules Deschênes, completed an important report into its investigation on Holocaust war criminals living in Canada in 1986. It was accompanied by an assessment by scholar Alti Rodal, a document that Justice Deschênes said deserved “wide distribution.”

But it’s been 38 years, and we’re still waiting to read Ms. Rodal’s report as well as the full version of the Deschênes report itself. To this day, many Canadian Holocaust-related records and investigations are inaccessible[...]

The U.S. government provides researchers and the public various avenues of access to Holocaust records through its National Archives and the robust Freedom of Information Act, where scholars and others are empowered to access sensitive documents about Nazi war criminals who took refuge in the U.S. No such system exists in Canada, neither through Library and Archives Canada nor via the federal Access to Information Act.[...]

Most governments became aware of the hundreds, if not thousands, of potential war criminals living in their societies in the late 1970s and 80s, and Canada was no different. In response, Canada decided to conduct the Deschênes Commission, an internal two-year investigation tasked with finding out if and how Nazis found refuge in Canada. The final report, which was released publicly with extensive deletions, marked the premature end of investigations into hundreds of war criminals and called for the federal Justice and Immigration departments to take the lead on future prosecution.[...]

The post-Deschênes era has been a failure. The commission asked for 218 individuals to be investigated, and specifically targeted 20 “really bad guys,” as Ms. Rodal recently remarked. The 218 other cases were bad, too – they included gas chamber operators, policemen who shot thousands of Jews and murderers of Jewish children. The Canadian government has charged just four alleged Holocaust perpetrators over four decades, all of whom were acquitted. [...]

The fact that a soldier of the Third Reich was welcomed into the Canadian Parliament, and that there was such shock as to how this could happen, demonstrates how Canada has yet to confront its past relationship with Nazi war criminals in earnest. And perhaps the blanket denial of access to the nation’s own government records and investigations is an underlying cause. In response to the Yaroslav Hunka affair, the federal government has flirted with new disclosures. In October, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remarked, “There are top public servants looking very carefully into the issue, including digging into the archives. We’re going to make recommendations.” Months have passed – we are still waiting.

27 Jan 24

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changes

[draxl3rs]

17/23 brothers + quotes (2023 edition): julian brandt

[sendryl]

[khudkifavourite]

Ma'am ye mera hindi grammer ka kaam hai🥹🥰 mamdaaa😩aye mamdiiii😏pagal hai ma'am tu pagal😡

[dilftesbiggestfan]

Father is fathering tonight

[d-lanx]

[ano-ripper-inc]

Anyone else Remember Spy Vs Spy? AKA These chaotic fuckers 👇

Who else would love for these guys to be redesigned and brought back to the modern day? Also may make a few sketches in my spare time. LOVE YA!!! (Also, I JUST FOUND OUT THEY HAD FUCKING NAMES!!! (Just to clarify, the White Spy is Heckel, and the Black Spy is Jackal, ik right? All this time and we have NO FUCKING CLUE!!!)

[peoplegettingreallymadatghosts]

[theseventhveil1945]

penny dreadful s02e01 "fresh hell"

[sidesinwonderland]

Little throw back

[sleepy-stories]

"Wish Now" Music Video by Star Darlings

[durnesque-esque]

Weird side effect of social media: the annual reminder of the first time you had sex.

[tooncraze]

Hey, Brain. I notice you like to read, something I appreciate. Pray tell, what's your favorite book, if you have one?