Theodor Oberländer
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Theodor Oberländer was an Ostforschung scientist and German Nazi official and politician, who after the Second World War served as Federal Minister for Displaced Persons, Refugees and Victims of War i
Oberländer in 1952
KGB document from the campaign against Oberländer and Ukrainian Nachtigall (1959).
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
Theodor Oberländer
…of disloyalty to the Nazi cause. In 1940, he endorsed the ethnic cleansing of Poland. He later became the leader of the mixed German and Ukrainian Nachtigall Battalion, as well as the German-Caucasian Bergmann Battalion (established in October 1941), which were active in anti-partisan warfare. Both groups were later…
Excerpt from a report by a member of the battalion about shooting "all Jews which were met" in Vinnytsia region
A Ukrainian postage stamp (2007) honouring the Ukrainian Commander of the Nachtigall Battalion - Roman Shukhevych on the 100th anniversary of his birth