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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 ...
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 ]
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.
Anna Reid (1999), Borderland: a journey through the history of Ukraine. 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 ...
Part of SS Waffen Gebirgsjäger Regiment 2 under 13th Division of the SS Handschar [69] 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician/Ukrainian) July 1943 [61] Ukrainian volunteers [61] n/a In November 1944, renamed 1st Ukrainian Division of the Ukrainian National Army" (1st UD UNA). [64] [20] [h] 15th Waffen Grenadier Division of the ...
The primary purpose of creation of the Ukrainian National Army was to integrate all the Ukrainian units fighting the Soviets under a single command. The intended size of the army, encompassing all the Ukrainian units subordinate to Oberkommando des Heeres was 220,000. However within the two months left till the end of the war, Shandruk was able ...
The Nachtigall Battalion (English: Nightingale Battalion), also known as the Ukrainian Nightingale Battalion Group (German: Bataillon Ukrainische Gruppe Nachtigall), or officially as Special Group Nachtigall [1] (German: Sondergruppe 'Nachtigall' [2]) was a subunit under command of the German Abwehr special-operations unit Lehrregiment "Brandenburg" z.b.V. 800 in 1941.
The Battle of Małków (Polish: Bitwy o Małków, Ukrainian: Бої під Малковом; February — March, 1944) was fought between the Battalion “Ryś” of the Peasant Battalions and Home Army under the command of Stanisław Basaj against the Third Reich, Ukrainian Auxiliary Police and 14th Grenadier Division of the Waffen–SS “Galicia” in the Hrubieszów Country of the Lublin ...