Title In the maelstrom : the Waffen-SS "Galicia" Division and its legacy / Myroslav Shkandrij

Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 424 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Introduction -- Part one. Motives. Genesis and reasons for volunteering -- Collaborators and co-operators -- Kubijovyč, Pankivskyi, and the Ukrainian Central Committee -- Military training : propaganda, chaplains, and relations with Germans -- Part two. Actions. Beyersdorff Battle Group, February-March, 1944 -- District of Lublin as war theatre : battalions, guards, and mutinies -- Galician SS volunteer regiments -- Slovakia, Slovenia, Austria, and the Ukrainian National Army, 1944-45 -- Youth soldiers, women, and nurses -- Part three. Camps. Bellaria and the repatriation campaign, 1945 -- Rimini, 1945-47 -- United Kingdom, 1947-49 -- Part four. Stories. Stories of captured men : interrogations 1944-54 and interviews 1987-2012 -- Émigré press and the patriot image, 1951-74 -- Poetry and memoirs -- Popular fiction -- Part five. Reappraisals. Commissions of inquiry and postwar trials -- Reasons recalled : last interviews, 1987-2012 -- Accomplices, traitors, and foes : three narrative perspectives -- Monuments and memory -- Conclusion Summary "An estimated 25,000 Ukrainians served in the Fourteenth Waffen-SS "Galicia" Division. Conflicting accounts of their reasons for enlistment and continuing accusations of wartime criminality have fuelled controversial debate for decades. The first comprehensive study of the Division to address both the military formation's wartime experience and its postwar fate, In the Maelstrom draws on archival research that includes interrogation records, interviews, memoirs, testimonies, and creative literature. The accounts of veterans often begin with being drafted for the force in teenage years and continue into postwar life in Italian and British internment camps. These reminiscences are compared with wartime records and recent narratives. The book then discusses the commissions of enquiry into war crimes during the 1980s, recent debates over the issue of monuments and commemoration, and different ways in which veterans, the diaspora community, Western governments, and researchers have approached the topic. In the Maelstrom brings to light the underexplored Ukrainian experience in the "Galicia" Division during and after the war. Due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, this experience resonates strongly today."-- Provided by publisher Analysis 14th Waffen Grenadier Division Army Board Central Cold War Committee Cooperative Deschenes General Germany Government Hetherington-Chalmers Himmler Kubijovyc Nazism Nuremberg OSI OUN Poland Rimini Russia Second World War Shandruk Sheptytskyi Stalin UK UPA Ukraine Ukrainian-German Ukrainian Vlasov Volunteer Wachter chaplains collaboration colonialism commissions crimes emigre history inquiry interrogations liberation literature memoirs memory military monuments movement national partisans politics postwar press prisoners propaganda regiments relations repatriation screenings soldiers trials war youth Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Waffen-SS. Grenadier-Division, 14. -- History Waffen-SS. Grenadier-Division, 14. -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc Waffen-SS. Grenadier-Division, 14 World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- Germany World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- Ukraine World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Ukrainian HISTORY / Europe / Eastern Recruiting and enlistment Regimental histories Germany Ukraine Genre/Form Electronic books History Personal narratives Form Electronic book ISBN 0228016541 9780228016540

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