Nachtigall Battalion
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The Nachtigall Battalion, also known as the Ukrainian Nightingale Battalion Group, or officially as Special Group Nachtigall was a subunit under command of the German Abwehr special-operations unit Le
Excerpt from a report by a member of the battalion about shooting "all Jews which were met" in Vinnytsia region
KGB document on action against Theodor Oberländer and Ukrainian Nachtigall (1959).
A Ukrainian postage stamp (2007) honouring the Ukrainian Commander of the Nachtigall Battalion - Roman Shukhevych on the 100th anniversary of his birth
Roman Shukhevych
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Roman-Taras Osypovych Shukhevych was a Ukrainian nationalist and a military leader of the nationalist Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which during the Second World War fought against the Soviet Union and to
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…1941, Wilhelm Canaris, head of the Abwehr, sanctioned the creation of the "Ukrainian Legion" under German command. The unit would have had 800 persons. Roman Shukhevych became a commander of the Legion from the OUN-B side. OUN expected that the unit would become the core of the future Ukrainian army. In the spring the…
Shukhevych in 1944
Shukhevych (left) in the Second Polish Republic in 1930
Schutzmannschaft Battalion 201 leaders, with Roman Shukhevych (sitting, second from left), 1942
Shukhevych, October 1943