The Ukrainian National Committee (Ukrainian: Український Національний Комітет, romanized: Ukrainskyi Natsionalnyi Komitet [ʊkrɐˈjinʲsʲkɪj nɐts⁽ʲ⁾ioˈnɑlʲnɪj komiˈtɛt]) was a Ukrainian political structure created in October 1944 and officially recognised by the Nazi authorities under the leadership of Pavlo Shandruk,[1] on March 17 (or March 12), 1945 in Weimar, Nazi Germany,[2] nearly two months before the German Instrument of Surrender,[3] with the intention to release Ukrainian Nazi-sponsored military units[1] from the German command. After a series of negotiations, the authorities of the Third Reich officially acknowledged their recognition of the committee as the sole representative of Ukraine and Ukrainian nation, with the extraterritorial rights and the right to command the Ukrainian National Army under Ukrainian flag and national symbols.
Alfred Rosenberg was one of the initiators of creating the committee. On 23 February 1945 Rosenberg formally empowered Shandruk to head it. On 12 March 1945 he promulgated the official act of recognition of the committee:
Notes
- 1 2 Rolf-Dieter Müller (2014). The Unknown Eastern Front: The Wehrmacht and Hitler's Foreign Soldiers. I.B.Tauris. p. 211. ISBN 978-1-78076-890-8. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
- ↑ Jonathan D. Smele (2015). Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 1012. ISBN 978-1-4422-5281-3. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
- ↑ Bernhard R. Kroener; Rolf-Dieter Muller; Hans Umbreit (2003). Germany and the Second World War. Vol. 5: Organization and Mobilization of the German Sphere of Power, Part 2: Wartime Administration, Economy, and Manpower Resources 1939-1941. Clarendon Press. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-19-820873-0. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
- ↑ The History of the Galician Division of the Waffen SS: Stalin's Nemesis
- 1 2 3 Markiewicz, Paweł. "The Ukrainian Central Committee, 1940-1945: A Case of Collaboration in Nazi-Occupied Poland" (PDF). Instytut Histori.
Further reading
- John Alexander Armstrong Ukrainian nationalism Ed. 3, Englewood, Colorado, U.S.A. : Ukrainian Academic Press, 1990; ISBN 0-87287-755-8
- Nicholas Bethell, The Last Secret. Forcible Repatriation to Russia 1944- 1947, London 1974 ISBN 0-233-96619-6
- Hans-Heinrich Herwarth von Bittenfeld; S. Frederick Starr (1981). Against Two Evils: Memoirs of a Diplomat-Soldier during the Third Reich. Rawson, Wade. ISBN 978-0-89256-154-4.
- (in Polish) Pavlo Shandruk, Historyczna prawda o Ukraińskiej Armii Narodowej, Kultura, nr 6, Paris, 1965
- Pavlo Shandruk, Arms of Valor, Robert Speller & Sons Publishers, Inc., New York 1959
- Nikolai Tolstoy, Victims of Yalta, originally published in London, 1977. Revised edition 1979. ISBN 0-552-11030-2