Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
34,3 (2020) 450-477
Keywords:
Ukrains'kyi Legion Samooborony
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World War, 1939-1945 Collaborationists
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
This study examines the German-sponsored Ukrainian Legion of Self-Defense (Ukrains’kyi Legion Samooborony, ULS), both its rank and file and its Ukrainian and German officers. Drawing upon sources in German, Ukrainian, American, and Israeli archives, the authors analyze the Legion’s command structure, its relationship to the Third Reich, and its relationship to the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists branch led by Andriy Atansovich Mel’nyk. The presentation of the political and military careers of lower-, mid-, and upper-level Legionnaires reveals their participation in killings of Jews, Poles, and other Ukrainians. The authors also identify the motivations of many of the actors. A close analysis of one case of German and Ukrainian “cooperation” in the Holocaust and other mass murders, this article relates to the debate over whether Holocaust perpetrators were “Ordinary Men.”
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