Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust. John-Paul Himka. Читать онлайн. Newlib. NEWLIB.NET

Автор: John-Paul Himka
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or would transcribe verbal testimony that contained vivid descriptions of the killing operations.”40 As we have seen, one of the eyewitness accounts in a Commission report led to the reopening of the trial of the policeman Ostrovsky in 1981.

      Information on UPA can also be found in the reports of the Soviet partisans who encountered them.

      OUN Documents

       drafts of programmatic documents;

       transcripts of meetings;

       orders and instructions to units of UPA and OUN’s security service (SB OUN);

       field reports from units of UPA and SB OUN;

       SB OUN interrogation records;

       materials from OUN-UPA training courses;

       memoranda of both factions of OUN to various German offices;

       proclamations and announcements to the population.

      c. Lists that would confirm that the Germans carried out anti-Jewish pogroms and liquidations by themselves, without the participation or help of the Ukrainian police, and instead, before carrying out executions, urged the Jewish committee or the rogues themselves to confirm with their signatures the presence of the Ukrainian police and its involvement in the actions.

      The order was sent “in strictest confidence” to “the oblast, circle, and county leaders” of OUN.

      Also, we know that not every order was written down, and sometimes we have to interpret the course and meanings of actions without documentation from OUN-UPA itself.

      Yet in spite of efforts to dissemble and to doctor history, OUN produced written documents that testify to antisemitism, the pursuit of ethnic cleansing, and the murder of Jews.

      Other Documentation

      Documentation of armed forces and governments other than those