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Unlikely Allies
Paweł Markiewicz
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
Unlikely Allies offers the first comprehensive and scholarly English-language analysis of German-Ukrainian collaboration in the General Government, an area of occupied Poland during World War II. Drawing on extensive archival material, the Ukrainian position is examined chiefly through the perspective of Ukrainian Central Committee head Volodymyr Kubiiovych, a prewar academic and ardent nationalist. The contact between Kubiiovych and Nazi administrators at various levels shows where their collaboration coincided and where it differed, providing a full understanding of the Ukrainian Committee’s ties with the occupation authorities and its relationship with other groups, like Poles and Jews, in occupied Poland.
Ukrainian nationalists’ collaboration created an opportunity to neutralize prewar Polish influences in various strata of social life. Kubiiovych hoped for the emergence of an autonomous Ukrainian region within the borders of the General Government or an ethnographic state closely associated with the Third Reich. This led to his partnership with the Third Reich to create a new European order after the war. Through their occupational policy of divide to conquer, German concessions raised Ukrainians to the position of a full-fledged ethnic group, giving them the respect they sought throughout the interwar period. Yet collaboration also contributed to the eruption of a bloody Polish-Ukrainian ethnic conflict. Kubiiovych’s wartime experiences with Nazi politicians and administrators—greatly overlooked and only partially referenced today—not only illustrate the history of German-Ukrainian and Polish-Ukrainian relations, but also supply a missing piece to the larger, more controversial puzzle of collaboration during World War II.
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"Drenched in archival research, this evenhanded study of the Ukrainian Central Committee under Nazi occupation offers a detailed examination of collaboration motivated by nationalism. The central protagonist of the study, Volodymyr Kubiiovych, the head of the committee, viewed himself as the leader of the Ukrainian nation in occupied Poland (the General Government). He wanted to use the Germans to promote the consolidation of his nation, but who ultimately used whom proved to be very different from what he imagined. Topics covered include Kubiiovych's ethnic cleansing projects, the delivery of forced laborers to the Reich, requisitions of produce from the local population, education, the press, the church, the formation of the Waffen-SS Division Galizien, and the evacuation of Kubiiovych and his committee from Eastern Europe as the Red Army proceeded westward."
"Accessible, refreshing, and bold, Markiewicz's intelligent study shows how the Nazis' complex and asymmetrical relation to the Ukrainian nationalists was facilitated by ideological similarities and perceived common enemies while complicated by diverging aims and interests. <i>Unlikely Allies</i> reconstructs and contextualizes the activities of the Ukrainian Central Committee (UTsK) in Krakow under Volodymyr Kubiiovych, the top Ukrainian collaborator in occupied Poland. This original study is an indispensable corrective to the prearchival, selective, and highly ideological accounts produced by Kubiiovych himself, and other emigres during the Cold War, which still informs much of the discussions on this topic in Ukraine and in its overseas diaspora."
Kundenbewertungen
occupied Poland, Nazi sympathizers, patriotism, ethnic conflict, Ukrainian Central Committee, general government, communism, nationalism, WWII, socialism, Third Reich, Poland, Ukraine nationalism, Polish-Ukrainian relations, new European order, German-Ukrainian relations, World War II, Volodymyr Kubiiovych