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In the Maelstrom: The Waffen-SS 'Galicia' Division and Its Legacy

In the Maelstrom: The Waffen-SS 'Galicia' Division and Its Legacy

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Eastern European HistoryRussian HistoryWorld War II

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ISBN10: 0228016525
ISBN13: 9780228016526
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Mar 15 2023
Pages: 464
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.80 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

An estimated 25,000 Ukrainians served in the Fourteenth Waffen-SS Galicia Division. Conflicting accounts of their reasons for enlistment and continuing accusations of wartime criminality have fuelled controversial debate for decades.

The first comprehensive study of the division to address both its wartime experience and its postwar fate, In the Maelstrom draws on archival research that includes interrogation records, interviews, memoirs, testimonies, and creative literature. The accounts of veterans often begin with being drafted into the force in their teenage years and continue into postwar life in Italian and British internment camps. These reminiscences are compared with wartime records and recent narratives. Myroslav Shkandrij discusses the commissions of inquiry into war crimes during the 1980s, recent debates over the issue of monuments and commemoration, and different ways in which veterans, the diaspora community, Western governments, and researchers have approached the division and its history.

In the Maelstrom brings to light the underexplored Ukrainian experience in the Galicia Division during and after the war - an experience that resonates strongly today.

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