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Colonel Ethell speaks of how they found Nazi sympathizers during the Balkan crisis 50 years after the Second World War
Donald Stewart Ethell
Donald Stewart Ethell est né en juillet 1937 et a grandi à Victoria (Colombie-Britannique). Son père était un ancien combattant de la Première Guerre mondiale et de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Sa mère était infirmière. Sa soeur et lui ont étudié dans un pensionnat en raison des emplois qu’occupaient ses parents et ils retournaient à la maison seulement à Noël et pendant les vacances d’été. La mère de M. Ethell est décédée lorsque ce dernier n’avait que 10 ans.
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Lorsqu’il s’est enrôlé, M. Ethell a joint les Queen's Own Rifles à Calgary. Après plusieurs années de service comme soldat d’infanterie, on l’a recommandé pour qu’il reçoive la formation d’officier. M. Ethell réussit le programme et s’éleva au rand de colonel. Plus tard, il a commandé des troupes canadiennes et des troupes des Nations Unies au cours de divers missions partout dans le monde. Au milieu des années 1990, Col. Ethell a pris sa retraite après plus de trente-cinq ans de services distingués.
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In the case of the Balkans, it stabilized to the extent but early on believe it or not we still had Ustashian Chethnik groups that were in the area and this is during the Second World War. There's a little town, Sibernik I think it was, along, near the Dalmatian Coast where the Croats went in and took out 28 villages, but there was also all sorts of swastikas there. And the same further north of Tuzla where the Chetnik was, I can't remember his name now but he was assassinated in Belgrade last year, which was no loss. He led the Chetniks, you know this was going back, hatreds goes back many, many years. As Lou Mackenzie responded one day when somebody said to him when he was isolated at the airport with his troops and there was nobody else there but CNN and the other media and they couldn't get out either, so Lou got a lot of air time. He said he was sick of, he was running out of one liners, but one great line was, "Who fired the first shot? " and his response was, "Some asshole about 200 years ago", and that's true. It hasn't stopped since.
