The remains of an American soldier killed in a Nazi war crime during World War II have been returned to the San Francisco Bay Area. U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Yuen Hop of Sebastopol was a waist gunner on a ...

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Dennis O'Callaghan The moment of surrender by men from the Royal Norfolk and Royal Scots battalions in 1940 was photographed by SS soldier Herbert ... to hold back the German advance across ...

But others say the commemorations equate World War II victims with perpetrators ... feeling” coming to where multiple soldiers for the Waffen SS elite Nazi unit are buried.

"During World War II, Nazi propaganda and later a number of West German historians claimed that the Waffen’s SS members were just run-of-the-mill soldiers from the German armed forces (Wehrmacht).