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The 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) (German: 14. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (galizische Nr. 1); Ukrainian: 14-та гренадерська дивізія СС «Галичина», romanized: 14-ta hrenaderska dyviziya SS "Halychyna"), commonly referred to as the Galicia Division, was a World War II infantry division of the Waffen-SS, the military wing of the ...
Yaroslav Ilkovych Hunka (Ukrainian: Ярослав Ількович Гунька; Polish: Jarosław Hunka; born March 19, 1925) is a Ukrainian-Canadian World War II veteran of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician)—abbreviated [a] as SS Galizien—a military formation of Nazi Germany.
] Two soldiers of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Galicia (1st Ukrainian) Division of the Waffen-SS were killed and one wounded by the villagers. On February 28, elements of the Ukrainian 14th SS Division from Brody returned with 500–600 men, assisted by a group of civilian nationalists. The killing spree lasted all day.
On 28 April 1943, the German Governor of the District of Galicia, Otto Wächter, and the local Ukrainian administration officially declared the creation of the SS Division Galicia. Volunteers signed for service as of 3 June 1943 and numbered 80,000. [ 43 ]
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The Ukrainian Galician Army obtained its arms from Austrian depots and from the demobilized Austrian and German troops who streamed through Galicia by the hundreds of thousands following the collapse of the Central Powers at the end of World War I. However, the centers of Austria's military industry lay far from Galicia, and subsequent ...
SS division ‘SS Galicia’ [148] the division; Paul Robert Magocsi (1996), A History of Ukraine. Galicia Division [index entry] SS Galicia Division (German: Waffen SS Division Galizien) [627–28] The Dyviziia, as it was known in Ukrainian; the Galicia Division; Galicia Division [637] Orest Subtelny (1988), Ukraine: A History, 1st edition.