Владимир, многие из тех, кто сейчас прославляет Легион, в качестве доказательства невиновности часто приводят решение американской Комиссии по перемещенным лицам об их допуске в США. В то же время не припомню, чтобы кем-то из "наших" историков использовалось интервью ее председателя Розенфилда, где он объясняет, что решение было принято невзирая на наличие в распоряжении комиссии неоспоримых свидетельств их преступлений. 

Почему так, просто никому на глаза не попалось?

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Now, I might add that on other occasions the vote was two to one against me. For example, I wrote an extremely thoroughly researched memorandum on the admissibility of the Waffen SS; and I came to the conclusion, on the basis of highly secret information--so secret that I can't even see my memorandum now, because it's so highly classified--that they shouldn't be admitted. Well, after about 18 months of hassling back and forth in the Commission, Mr. Carusi and Mr. O'Connor voted against me, and some of those people were admitted. I think they had the obligation to act in accordance with their consciences, and their knowledge of the situation. I just disagreed with them, then, and I disagree with them now.

FUCHS: In certain groups, the people were there involuntarily or due to innocent apprehensions, but other groups, such as Waffen SS you felt they . . .

ROSENFIELD: They were in it because they wanted to be.

FUCHS: And the program was what they wanted.

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ROSENFIELD: That's right.

Now, that isn't to say that there mayn't have been some poor Joes that were dragged into it, but the record that I had from the ultra secret files of the Army showed an unbelievably improper behavior on the part of that group as a whole. My reaction was, with so many people wanting to come in, and a limited number allowable, let's take the ones that we have no black marks against. I was voted down.

FUCHS: What was the Baltic group?

ROSENFIELD: The Balts were--as a matter of fact, a good many of the Waffen SS were Baltics.

FUCHS: I see. They were what they called the "inimical list?"

ROSENFIELD: Well, that was the list that was maintained by the immigration service of security and related people. The Waffen SS were never on that; that was mostly the Communists. The Waffen SS were Fascists rather than Communists.