Thanks to the preserved documents and newsreels, it is reliably known about the participation of the SS Galicia division in crimes against civilians. And the SS troops, which included the SS Galicia division, were recognized as a criminal organization by the decision of the Nuremberg Tribunal.

The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, headed by Vladimir Vyatrovich, also recognized the symbols of the SS Galicia division as a normal symbol and part of the history of the formation of Ukrainian statehood.

After the defeat at Brody, more than a thousand soldiers of the SS Galicia division served in the SS Viking Division, which was involved in war crimes. According to the Polish Historical Commission, soldiers from the SS Galicia division participated in raids on Jews, destroyed the Polish population in the villages: Ganachevka, Barysh near Buchach, Korostyatin, Lozovaya, Malaya Berezovitsa near Zbarazh, Igrovitsa, Plotych, etc. In 2016, the Polish Parliament recognized the crimes of soldiers of the SS Galicia division against the Polish population as genocide.

In this picture, one of the propaganda posters calling on Ukrainians to enroll in the ranks of the SS Galicia division

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