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Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany took place during the occupation of Poland and the Ukrainian SSR, USSR, by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. [ 1 ] By September 1941, the German-occupied territory of Ukraine was divided between two new German administrative units, the District of Galicia of the Nazi General Government and the ...
The Reichskommissariat Ukraine (RKU; lit. ' Reich Commissariat of Ukraine ') was established by Nazi Germany in 1941 during World War II.It was the civilian occupation regime of much of German-occupied Ukraine (it also included adjacent areas of the Byelorussian SSR, Russian SFSR, and pre-war Poland).
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 Ukrainian National Army (Ukrainian: Українська національна армія, romanized: Ukrainska natsionalna armiia, abbreviated УНА, UNA) was a World War II Ukrainian military group, created on March 17, 1945, in the town of Weimar, Nazi Germany, and subordinate to Ukrainian National Committee.
The government was declared by the proclamation of the Ukrainian state on 30 June 1941, which also pledged to work with Nazi Germany. It was led by Stepan Bandera's faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the OUN-B. When German troops entered Lviv, the German authorities told the leadership of the Ukrainian nationalists to ...
With the Red Army forces successful counteroffensive against the Nazi Germany and their invasion into western Ukraine in July 1944, UPA resisted the Red Army's advancement with full-scale guerrilla war, holding up 200,000 Soviet soldiers, particularly in the countryside, and was supplying intelligence to the Nazi Sicherheitsdienst (SD) security ...
The battle took place over a large area in eastern Ukraine, with Kiev being the focal point of Soviet defenses, and of the German encirclement. Adolf Hitler , the leader of the Third Reich , described the Battle of Kiev as "the biggest battle in the history of the world", while Joseph Goebbels , the German minister of propaganda , called it ...
The Ukrainian National Committee (Ukrainian: Український Національний Комітет [ʊkrɐˈjinʲsʲkei̯ nɐt͡sʲiɔˈnalʲnei̯ kɔmʲiˈtɛt]) was a Ukrainian political structure created under the leadership of Pavlo Shandruk, [1] on March 17 (or March 12), 1945 in Weimar, Nazi Germany, [2] nearly two months before the German Instrument of Surrender, [3] with the ...