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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.
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 ]
The West Ukrainian National Republic was a short-lived republic that existed in late 1918 and early 1919 in eastern Galicia.The republic managed to issue about one hundred types of postage stamps during its brief existence, all but two of which are overprints on existing stamps of Austria or Bosnia.
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 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.
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 ...
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