{"id":51934,"date":"2017-05-07T17:05:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T15:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=51934"},"modified":"2017-05-05T06:24:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T04:24:58","slug":"07-05-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=51934","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine opens criminal probe against 94-year-old Jewish WWII hero"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Ukraine opens criminal probe against 94-year-old Jewish WWII hero<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Itamar Eichner<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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In an unprecedented move, Ukrainian authorities are opening a criminal investigation into 94-year-old Jewish WWII hero, Col. Boris Steckler, who is accused of having killed a Nazi collaborator.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Ukrainian authorities have decided to open a criminal investigation into a 94-year-old Jewish WWII hero who is being accused of killing a Nazi collaborator.<\/span>
\n Col. Boris Steckler was warned that he is expected to stand trial for killing a Ukrainian nationalist in 1952.<\/span><\/p>\n

Col. Boris Steckler<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Steckler was a senior officer in the Soviet Army and after the war was appointed as an officer in the KGB and was responsible for capturing Nazis and collaborators in western Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n

During a battle in the Rivne Oblast in western Ukraine, Steckler was involved in a confrontation with nationalists who cooperated with the Nazis. During the confrontation, a man by the name of Neil Hasiewicz, who was a propagandist and district judge during the war, was shot and killed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Local nationalist groups recently filed a complaint against Steckler, accusing him of responsibility for the assassination of Hasiewicz\u2014a fact that Steckler does not deny.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sketch of Neil Hasiewicz<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In an unprecedented move, this is the first time Ukrainian authorities have sought to arrest a person who worked against Nazi collaborators during and after the Second World War.<\/span><\/p>\n

Steckler was recognized as a local war hero and is regularly invited to the parades commemorating the victory over the Nazis. He was wounded during the war and received countless medals for courage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alex Tantzer, whose family was murdered in the Holocaust in the Rivne region, said that it was nothing less than a sign of cultural decline for Ukrainians.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I do not know whether this is anti-Semitism or not. In Ukraine, there are occasional complaints from nationalist organizations, and it’s a shame that the authorities take it seriously … It’s a shame that the government in Ukraine does not stop these horrific things. Now when we celebrate victory over Nazi Germany, we are persecuting this Jew who fought against Nazis.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ukraine opens criminal probe against 94-year-old Jewish WWII hero Itamar Eichner In an unprecedented move, Ukrainian authorities are opening a criminal investigation into 94-year-old Jewish WWII hero, Col. Boris Steckler, who is accused of having killed a Nazi collaborator. Ukrainian authorities have decided to open a criminal investigation into a 94-year-old Jewish WWII hero who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51934"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51938,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51934\/revisions\/51938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}