King Charles accepted award from Nazi veteran

Exclusive: Charles received honorary degree from Ukrainian Nazi veteran when he was Prince of Wales in 1983. Support our work: A photograph has been discovered of the then Prince Charles receiving an award from a former member of the Waffen-SS. Charles was given an honorary law degree during a ceremony at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada in 1983. In his acceptance speech, Charles praised those who had “sacrificed their lives 40 years ago” in the fight against Adolf Hitler. Yet the award was conferred on him by a Nazi collaborator – the university’s chancellor Peter Savaryn. Originally from Ukraine, he served in the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS – the so-called Galicia division – during World War Two. Savaryn was among thousands of Waffen-SS Galicia men who escaped to the West after 1945, often with British assistance. Watch our interview with investigative journalist Hunter Pauli who gave the story exclusively to Declassified UK. Read more: