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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 ...
In Ukraine, the events are called "Volhynia tragedy". [230] [4] Coverage in textbooks may be brief and/or euphemistic. [231] Some Ukrainian historians accept the genocide classification, but argue that it was a "bilateral genocide" and that the Home Army was responsible for crimes against Ukrainian civilians that were equivalent in nature. [229]
In May 2006, the Ukrainian newspaper Ukraine Christian News commented, "Carrying out the massacre was the Einsatzgruppe C, supported by members of a Waffen-SS battalion and units of the Ukrainian auxiliary police, under the general command of Friedrich Jeckeln. The participation of Ukrainian collaborators in these events, now documented and ...
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.
[30] [31] On April 25, 1945, the Waffen-SS Galizien was officially reorganized as the First Division of the Ukrainian National Army, and swore a new oath of loyalty to the Ukrainian people. [32] Bernie Farber of the Canadian Jewish Congress wrote that "removing this monument will require the Ukrainian-Canadian community to take a hard look at ...
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 ...
Institute of Ukrainian History, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine clearly identify 4 and 5 regiments of SS-Galicien “”freewiller” under SD command (per IMT conclusion all SD agents regardless they member of SS or NOT are war criminals) participate in many war crimes from the autumn 1943 which raged from the beginning of the 1944 ...
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 ...