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Minor quibble. EVERYONE in the military had to swear allegiance to Hitler personally, not just the SS. I think also civil servants had to do it.

The author also doesn't seem to know there were two SS-es. The Waffen SS, which was their elite combat units, and the "normal" SS which was responsible for most of the genocide. The Wehrmacht was the regular army.

This particular unit had quite the record:

https://www.realhistoryonline.com/soldiers/14thss-...
From some of the volunteers who were not included in the first recruitment to the Galicia division, on the initiative of Himmler, the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th Galician SS volunteer regiments ( die Galizische SS-Freiwillige Regimenter ). They armed themselves and received supplies from the Central Bureau of the SS division in cooperation with the HSSPf from the Ukraine and Ordnungspolizei (Orpo). These regiments were subordinated not to the military, but to the police command of the Germans, in particular to the highest leader of the SS and police of the General Government. In February 1944, the 4th and 5th Galician volunteer regiments, according to the order of Himmler, were sent to fight the Soviet and Polish partisans. They were included in the Galicia division in June 1944.

According to the Polish and Ukrainian historical commissions, in February 1944, the 4th Galician Volunteer Regiment, with the assistance of the UPA, took part in the destruction of the Polish village of Guta Penyatska, where 172 houses were burned and more than 500 people of the Polish population, including women and children. In March, they themselves, with the assistance of the UPA detachment, in the Dominican monastery of the village of Podkamen killed more than 250 Poles.

Somebody should tell the Politico writer that Poles /= Soviets.
The Poles, by the way, want this guy back there for investigation and trial.

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