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Stepan Bandera was then declared Providnyk, their new equivalent to the Nazi Fuhrer. | Stepan Bandera was then declared Providnyk, their new equivalent to the Nazi Fuhrer. | ||
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Because of their networking with other [[National Socialism|National Socialists]] in Europe during the repartition of the former austrian sphere of influence the OUN assumed that they could rally a sufficiently useful collaborator movement and act as the vanguard of ethnic cleansing of Russians to establish a culturally homogenous Ukraine, which the Nazis would have to contend with in their plans. | |||
Hitler disagreed and Bandera was interned as a "guest of honor" because his plans and fanaticism were incompatible with the goals of Generalplan Ost, which encompassed the genocide of Galicians as well. This did not negatively affect the de-facto collaboration between Germany and the OUN in practice. The OUN(b) continued acting as an official auxillery police to the Nazi state and it's only significant units capable of limited conventional combat were under direct command and leadership of the german military. | |||
After the Battle of Stalingrad and the OUN's hasty attempts to refashion themselves into anything other than a powerless collaborator gang, Bandera was transferred to a concentration camp because of his movement's nominal treason. The first priority of his on the ground remained the extermination of Poles and Jews. | |||
==Participation in the Holocaust== | ==Participation in the Holocaust== | ||
===Operation Barbarossa=== | ===Operation Barbarossa=== | ||
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The OUN-B carried out 58<ref>Rudling, P.A. (2011) ‘The OUN, the UPA and the Holocaust: A Study in the Manufacturing of Historical Myths’, ''The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies'' [Preprint], (2107). Available at: <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.5195/cbp.2011.164</nowiki>.</ref> progroms. In July 1941 they murdered between 38,000 and 39,000<ref>Dieter Pohl, “Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Western Ukraine: A Research Agenda,” in Barkan, Cole, and Struve, eds. Shared History—Divided Memory, 305–315.</ref> Jews in other towns surrounding Lvov. | The OUN-B carried out 58<ref>Rudling, P.A. (2011) ‘The OUN, the UPA and the Holocaust: A Study in the Manufacturing of Historical Myths’, ''The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies'' [Preprint], (2107). Available at: <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.5195/cbp.2011.164</nowiki>.</ref> progroms. In July 1941 they murdered between 38,000 and 39,000<ref>Dieter Pohl, “Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Western Ukraine: A Research Agenda,” in Barkan, Cole, and Struve, eds. Shared History—Divided Memory, 305–315.</ref> Jews in other towns surrounding Lvov. | ||
===Ghettos and concentration camps=== | ===Ghettos and concentration camps=== | ||
The OUN-B established an organisation to carry out killings of Jews in western Ukraine called the Ukrainian People's Militsiya. This organization became the police of western Ukraine as instructed by the Nazis. The Ukrainian People's Militsiya alongside the Nazis transferred hundreds of thousands of Jews to ghettos and concentration camps. In the Ternopil Oblast of western Ukraine, 97% of Jews were killed, whereas ( for contrast) in the Kharkov Oblast of eastern Ukraine, 91% survived. The OUN-B was directly involved in the killing of some 820,000 Jews in concentration camps and ghettos. | The OUN-B established an organisation to carry out killings of Jews in western Ukraine called the Ukrainian People's Militsiya. This organization became the police of western Ukraine as instructed by the Nazis. The Ukrainian People's Militsiya alongside the Nazis transferred hundreds of thousands of Jews to ghettos and concentration camps. In the Ternopil Oblast of western Ukraine, 97% of Jews were killed, whereas ( for contrast) in the Kharkov Oblast of eastern Ukraine, 91% survived. The OUN-B was directly involved in the killing of some 820,000 Jews in concentration camps and ghettos. | ||