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[János Székely]

Yes but Bandera was in Sachsenhausen all the while.

2015-01-04 21:15 GMT+01:00 Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>:

> > And Bandera a Nazi collaborator or an Stalin-enemy? And wasn't
> > Stalin himself a "Nazi collaborator" until June 1941?
>
> Bandera was of course both a Nazi collaborator and an enemy of Stalin.
>
> I do not get your point about the Hitler-Stalin-Pact.
>
>
> Here is some information on Bandera and Banderists from the U.S.
> government archives:
>
> 'A Banderist proclamation in April 1941 claimed that “Jews in the USSR
> constitute the most faithful support of the ruling Bolshevik regime and the
> vanguard of Muscovite imperialism in the Ukraine.” Stetsko, even while
> under house arrest in July 1941, said that “I…fully appreciate the
> undeniably harmful and hostile role of the Jews, who are helping Moscow to
> enslave Ukraine…. I therefore support the destruction of the Jews and the
> expedience of bringing German methods of exterminating Jewry to Ukraine….”
> In Lwów, a leaflet warned Jews that, “You welcomed Stalin with flowers
> [when the Soviets occupied East Galicia in 1939]. We will lay your heads at
> Hitler’s feet.” At a July 6, 1941, meeting in Lwów, Bandera loyalists
> determined that Jews “have to be treated harshly…. We must finish them
> off…. Regarding the Jews, we will adopt any methods that lead to their
> destruction.” Indeed pogroms in East Galicia in the war’s first days killed
> perhaps 12,000 Jews. Back in Berlin, Stetsko reported it all to Bandera.
>
> Nazi authorities mobilized Ukrainians into auxiliary police units, some of
> which cleared ghettos. Few such auxiliary police belonged to Bandera’s
> group, which operated independently. But Banderist guerrillas in western
> Ukraine often killed Jews. Historian Yehuda Bauer writes that Banderists
> “killed all the Jews they could find,” surely “many thousands” in all.
> Moshe Maltz, a Jew living in hiding in Sokal, heard from a friendly Polish
> contact “about 40 Jews who were hiding out in the woods near his home … the
> Bandera gangs came and murdered them all.”
>
> When the Soviets reconquered East Galicia in November 1944, there were few
> Jews there left alive. But Maltz recorded that, “When the Bandera gangs
> seize a Jew, they consider it a prize catch. The ordinary Ukrainians feel
> the same way…. they all want to participate in the heroic act of killing a
> Jew. They literally slash Jews to pieces with their machetes….”
>
> When the war turned against the Germans in early 1943, leaders of
> Bandera’s group believed that the Soviets and Germans would exhaust each
> other, leaving an independent Ukraine as in 1918. Lebed proposed in April
> to “cleanse the entire revolutionary territory of the Polish population,”
> so that a resurgent Polish state would not claim the region as in 1918.16
> Ukrainians serving as auxiliary policemen for the Germans now joined the
> Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). Maltz recorded that “Bandera men … are not
> discriminating about who they kill; they are gunning down the populations
> of entire villages.… Since there are hardly any Jews left to kill, the
> Bandera gangs have turned on the Poles. They are literally hacking Poles to
> pieces. Every day … you can see the bodies of Poles, with wires around
> their necks, floating down the river Bug.” On a single day, July 11, 1943,
> the UPA attacked some 80 localities killing perhaps 10,000 Poles.'
>
> http://www.archives.gov/iwg/reports/hitlers-shadow.pdf
>
> p. 74-76
>
>
> What do you think?
>
> Thomas (!)
>
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