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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. | 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 by attempting to align with the Allies. The first priority of his on the ground remained the extermination of Poles and Jews. | 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 by attempting to align with the Allies. The first priority of his supporters on the ground remained the extermination of Poles and Jews. | ||
On the initiative of the OUN(b), negotiations with the SS and its Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) were resumed on March 5, 1944.<ref name=":0" /> By March 1944, the UPA was sharing information with the German authorities on their murder of “Poles, bandits, and Jews.” Formal cooperation with the German Security Police, Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) and the SD was resumed in May 1944.<ref>Pohl, Nationalsozialistische Judenverfolgung in Ostgalizien, 376; Frank Golczewski, “Shades of Grey: Reflections on Jewish-Ukrainian and German-Ukranian Relations in Galicia,” in Ray Brandon and Wendy Lower, eds., The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008), 143.</ref> | On the initiative of the OUN(b), negotiations with the SS and its Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) were resumed on March 5, 1944.<ref name=":0" /> By March 1944, the UPA was sharing information with the German authorities on their murder of “Poles, bandits, and Jews.” Formal cooperation with the German Security Police, Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) and the SD was resumed in May 1944.<ref>Pohl, Nationalsozialistische Judenverfolgung in Ostgalizien, 376; Frank Golczewski, “Shades of Grey: Reflections on Jewish-Ukrainian and German-Ukranian Relations in Galicia,” in Ray Brandon and Wendy Lower, eds., The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008), 143.</ref> | ||