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In the maelstrom : the Waffen-SS 'Galicia' Division and its legacy / Myroslav Shkandrij.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shkandrij, Myroslav, 1950- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Waffen-SS. Grenadier-Division, 14--History.
- Waffen-SS.
- Waffen-SS. Grenadier-Division, 14--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.
- Waffen-SS. Grenadier-Division, 14.
- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Ukrainian.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--Ukraine.
- Germany.
- Ukraine.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives.
- History.
- Personal narratives -- Ukrainian.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (459 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- In the Maelstrom is the first study of the Fourteenth Waffen-SS "Galicia" Division that covers both the military formation's wartime experience and its postwar fate. It explores the lives of the Division's veterans, controversial ongoing debates surrounding the motivation of recruits, and accusations of wartime criminality.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Figures
- Glossary and Abbreviations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Usage
- Notes on Political and Military Figures
- Maps follow page
- Introduction
- Motives
- Genesis and Reasons for Volunteering
- Collaborators and Co-operators
- Kubijovyč, Pankivskyi, and the Ukrainian Central Committee
- Military Training: Propaganda, Chaplains, and Relations with Germans
- Actions
- Beyersdorff Battle Group, February–March, 1944
- District of Lublin as War Theatre: Battalions, Guards, and Mutinies
- Galician SS Volunteer Regiments
- Slovakia, Slovenia, Austria, and the Ukrainian National Army, 1944–45
- Youth Soldiers, Women, and Nurses
- Camps
- Bellaria and the Repatriation Campaign, 1945
- Rimini, 1945–47
- United Kingdom, 1947–49
- Stories
- Stories of Captured Men: Interrogations 1944–54 and Interviews 1987–2012
- Émigré Press and the Patriot Image, 1951–74
- Poetry and Memoirs
- Popular Fiction
- Reappraisals
- Commissions of Inquiry and Postwar Trials
- Reasons Recalled: Last Interviews, 1987–2012
- Accomplices, Traitors, and Foes: Three Narrative Perspectives
- Monuments and Memory
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Shkandrij, Myroslav In the Maelstrom
- ISBN:
- 9780228016540
- 0228016541
- OCLC:
- 1371140555
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