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Re: Галицийская/украинская див...
Немного на английском:
http://www.feldgrau.com/14ss.html
Братство ветеранов дивизии:
http://www.infoukes.com/galiciadivision/
Тематические материалы и документы (на украинском и польском):
http://www.geocities.com/galiciadivision/veryha/index.html
На английском:
http://www.geocities.com/ssgalitsija/
На русском:
http://ostbataillon.fromru.com/ssgalicia.htm
И вот, пока ковырялся в папке "Избранное", нашёл (опять же на английском):
UNIT HISTORY
Sept 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland; WWII begins. The Soviet Union, in a secret agreement with Germany, occupies the formerly Polish region of western Galicia. The NKVD (Soviet Secret Police) immediately terrorize the Ukrainians with mass arrests, deportations and murders.
June 1941: June 22: Operation Barbarossa - Germany invades the Soviet Union. Ukranians welcome the German army as liberators. 2 battalions, "Nichtigall" and "Roland," of Ukrainian nationalists raised by the Abwehr serve as commando units behind Soviet Army lines.
June 30: Germans dissolve the fledgling Ukranian government, formed since the invasion.
July 1941: July 17: During the Angerberg conference, Hitler announced that the former Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia will be incorporated into Greater Germany.
August 1941: part of "Galicia" province incorporated into Generalgovuernment of Poland
November 1941: German SD begins brutal supression of Ukrainian nationalist movement and the systematic persecution of Ukranian jews.
December 1941: UPA formed to resist Nazi rule. UPA guerilla band fight not only Germans, but other pro-Soviet partisans as well.
February 1943: German troops surrender at Stalingrad. Stalin regains the initiative on the Russian Front.
March 1943: March 1: Galicia's Nazi Governor-General, SS-Brigadefuhrer Dr. Otto Gustav Wachter, discusses with RFSS Heinrich Himmler the possibility of raising an Waffen-SS division of Ukrainian volunteers.
March 24: SS-FHA chief Gottlob Berger, in an effort to test the Ukrainian vounteer waters, raises 12,000 men for "Polizei-Schutzen Regiment 'Galizien'" March 28: Himmler gives Wachter the go-ahead to form the division, as long as it's labeled the Germanic "Galicia" and not the slavic "Ukrainian."
April 1943: April 4: Wachter meets with Gottlob Berger to discuss raising the Galician Waffen-SS division.
April 12: Guidelines for the division's raising finalized, including this gem "A longer period of [training] time must be provided than for German formation, since here a singular human material is being dealt with!"
The Ukrainian Central Committee (UCC), an organization of leading collaborators in the Nazi government, are asked for assistance. The UCC forms a Military Board to help raise the volunteers for the division.
April 28: Raising of the 14th SS division officially announced at L'viv. roughly 20,000 volunteers enlist, although many sources inflate the number of volunteers from 70-150,000. The OUN/UPA immediately denounce the formation of the division.
May 1943: The UCC Military Board demands, and receives, 9-12 Ukrainian Orthodox/ Greek Catholic chaplains for the division, an unusual move for an SS unit
July 1943: July 5: First divisional call-up, L'viv. 50,000 people attend an outdoor mass to bless the departing volunteers. 350 officers & 2,000 NCO canidates sent to Germany for training.
July 30: Himmler again orders that the division be referred to as "Galician" and not "Ukrainian."
August 1943: August 1: division designated as infantry
Aug 23: Soviet troops retake Kharkov (modern Kharkiv)
September 1943: Training, bicycle battalion formed only to be disbanded 06/44.
October 1943: In a secret meeting, the UPA agrees not to interfere with the formation of the 14th SS division if the UCC does not interfere with the infiltration of UPA cadre into Ukrainian Waffen-SS ranks. Scores of UPA cadres enlist into the unit.
November 1943: Soviets retake Kiev
December 1943: division strength: 12,634
January 1944: Jan 5: Divisional officers celebrate Ukrainian Xmas at a celebratory dinner.
February 1944: Feb 9: Governor-General Wachter's assistant, Otto Bayer, assinated by Soviet agents, L'viv.
Feb 13: part of division participates in Bayer's funeral parade, L'viv.
Feb 15: Divisional troops in first combat as "Kampfgruppe Beyersdorff" during antipartisan operations, Volyn & Polissa.
March 1944: March 27: "Kampfgruppe Beyersdorff" antipartisan operations end. Division sent to Neuhammer, Germany for additional training.
April 1944: Ukranian private executed for minor infraction; troop morale plummets; CO Freitag is so concerned over the ramifications (including his decision not to grant a stay of execution) that the when the German NCO who arrested the poor Ukrainian is murdered, Freitag hushes up the incident rather than having an investigation uncover his erratic leadership.
May 1944: May 15-16: Himmler visits 14th SS division at Neuhammer.
June 1944: June 15: Schuma Battalion 204 incorporated into unit.
June 22: Soviets launch Operation Bagtration
June 25-28: Division departs for Galicia.
June 27: Division offically assigned the numeral "14."
division strength: 15,300
July 1944: 1,000 troops from SS-Ausbildungs und Ersatz Abteilung Regiment 14 (see training & replacement units posted to the Wiking division) July 11: Division posted to front at Brody, behind Styr river, as part of 13 Corps, 4th Panzer Army, Army Group North Ukraine. UPA members contact Ukrainian divisional officers, warning them of an impending Soviet attack & saying the division's positions will be "engulfed in an ocean of armor"
July 14: Soviet 1st Ukranian Front begins assault against the 4th Panzer Army. 13 Corps is outnumbered by Soviet troops 5:1.
July 15: 4th Panzer Army begins to collapse; 30th Regiment of 14th SS meets Soviets head-on.
July 16: 29th & 31st Regiments of 14th SS ordered to assist the hard-pressed 30th regiment.
July 17: 14th SS forced over onto the defensive, German 357th Infantry Division collapses.
July 18: 14th SS completely surrounded, Brody pocket, with 7 German Army divisions.
July 20: UPA begins to mop-up the battlefield for weapons & begins picking up stray 14th SS troops. The UPA may have met with Divisional CO Freitag for assistance. During a 13th Corps staff meeting; Freitag, possibly demoralized; resigns as division CO and is replaced by German Army General Lindemann. Meanwhile, the 31st Regiment collapses.
July 21: 454th Field Security Division collapses
July 22: 13th Corps prepares to break out of pocket.
July 23: 13th Corps breaks out of Soviet encirclement; 3,000 14th SS soldiers escape; 900 are captured (with an additional 3,000 joining the UPA) - the rest are casualties. The division loses all its heavy equipment. Although the division's escape has often been labeled a rout, overall the division performed admirably. the 14th SS may have been overwhelmed, but it did not break.
July 24: Division remmnants reach Uzhotsky pass along with civillian refugee columns; Freitag calls the division troops cowards to Governor-General Wachter (now suddenly out of a job, with his territory under new management).
July 27: Soviets recapture L'viv.
August 1944: Aug 8: Himmler orders Freitag to rebuild division, now resting & refitting at Seredne, Hungary
August 27: Units of Slovakian army begin uprising against the Germans, St. Martin, Slovakia.
September 1944: Sept 1: Gottlob Berger, head of the SS-FHA, appointed HSSPF for Slovakia
Sept 12: Division posted to Neuhammer for reorganization.
Sept 20: 2 German infantry battalions incorporated into division; total strength of 14th SS: 12,901.
Sept 22-28: division posted to Slovakia to put down the uprising. 1 regiment sent to Yugoslavia to fight Tito's partisans?
Sept 30: Freitag wins Knight's Cross despite his poor performance at Brody.
October 1944: Oct 15: Division relieves Panzer division "Tatra" in the fight against the Slovakian rebels. Sets up base HQ at Zilina.
Oct 15-31: Counterinsurgency operations against Slovak rebels as Kampfgruppes "Wittenmeyer" and "Wildner," near Banska Bystrica.
November 1944: division renamed to "ukrainische;" up to 200 divisional troops desert; meanwhile, several men missing since the Battle of Brody reappear back at the division after harrowing and often miraculous escapes.
Nov 30: Kampfgruppe Wittenmeyer returns to base
December 1944: Division strength: 12,000?
Dec 20: part of division sent to Hungarian front at Banska Stiaunica as KG "Dern"
January 1945: in Steiermark? KG Dern returns to division
Jan 2: KG Wildner returns to base.
Jan 12: Soviets launch winter offensive
Jan 31: posted to Slovenia.
February - March 1945: antipartisan operations, Slovenia/Italian border, often serving under the Chief of Police for Ljubljana, SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Rosner.
Feb 28: posted to Maibor.
Mar 1: division strength: 12,000. A "Ukrainian Self-Defence Unit," an OUN offshoot of 600 men, attaches itself to 14th SS. The division's officers are now wary as many unitless men - often concentration camp guards and other SS personnel, are wandering around looking for a "legitimate" unit to blend into and evade allied persecution.
March 24: Hitler, in a staff conference, is angered when he learns of the existence of the 14th SS division and threatens to disarm it.
Mar 25: Division receives orders to disarm
Mar 28: Order rescinded.
April 1945: April 1: division retreats to Feldbach, Austria
April 15-16: Repulses Soviet attacks, Gleichenberg Castle.
April 19: Ukrainian General Pavlo Shandruk visits 14th SS.
April 25: division transferred to Ukrainian National Army, a mostly paper formation.
May 1945: Division survivors surrender into British captivity at Radstadt; avoided repatriation to Soviet Union, as US/British accepted their claims to be "Polish" and respected their anti-communist stance.
( http://www.wssob.com/014divgal.html)