UCLA Historian Jared McBride on SS Monument in Elkins Park

Dom welcomes in Jared McBride, professor at UCLA and historian of Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century with a focus on mass violence, the Holocaust, interethnic conflict, nationalist movements, and war crimes prosecution. McBride was recently quoted in the Inquirer in an article focusing on a very controversial monument that was erected in Elkins Park 30 years ago recognizing the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the Schutzstaffel, a Nazi military branch regularly referred to as ‘The SS.’ The argument from supporters is that these alleged Nazi sympathizers aided the United States in the war against the Soviet Union, which McBride dissects as revisionist history. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)