Ukrainian Military Collaborators - Information in the Archive of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies
Ukrainian Military Collaborators - Information in the Archive of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses documents from the archive of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) that contain information about Ukrainian military collaborators. There are four groups of such sources: documents of personal origin; press materials; documents from archives in different countries; and printed publications. They differ in their information potential and purpose of creation. In this article, I analyse the research potential of documents from the VWI archive regarding crimes committed by members of the Ukrainian auxiliary police as well as by members of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (Galician). Information about the involvement of Ukrainian police officers in the Holocaust can be found in various types of sources. These include eyewitness accounts, archival documents, and press materials. They provide a lot of factual material about specific crimes. The information about the Division of the SS (Galician) is mainly concentrated in various brochures, bulletins, and books. These contain information not only about the military history of the division, but also about individual members of this unit who committed violence against civilians, including Jews.

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