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This history of Canada’s attitude toward Jews destroys the image of Canadians as polite, genteel, open, and cultured Westerners. When it comes to Jews, the opposite is true.
The Deschenes Commission was given a remit framed to ensure it would produce a whitewash. Ottawa would not tolerate the disruption of the close political relations it had developed over decades with the Nazis’ Ukrainian far-right collaborators.
The leaders of the Kindertransport were tireless in creating the frameworks and overcoming the obstacles that saved many lives.
In the decades following World War II, Canada became a safe haven for Ukrainian fascists who had been accomplices of the Nazis in the mass extermination of European Jewry and Hitler's "war of annihilation" against the Soviet Union.