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| Ukrainian Auxiliary Police | |
|---|---|
| Active | from July 1941 |
| Country |  Nazi Germany |
| Role | Auxiliary police |
| Engagements | Anti-partisan operations in Belarus, Holocaust in Belarus, Holocaust in Poland, Holocaust in Russia, Holocaust in Ukraine, Massacres of Poles in Volhynia |
| Commanders | |
| Notable commanders |
Petro Dyachenko Roman Shukhevych Petro Voinovsky Petro Zakhvalynsky |
Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfpolizei), Ukrainian military units that were set up in the General Government at the beginning of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in mid-1941. The job of these collaborating Ukrainians was to aid German troops in various operations, such as fighting the Soviet Partisans.
In the General Government in the district Galicia were 6 thousands Ukrainian policemen (in Lviv 500-800).[1]
Persecution of Jews and Poles
During the first week of the German occupation of Poland and Ukrainian SSR, members of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police took part in pogroms against the Jews. Later, they escorted Jews to their forced labor sites and guarded the ghettos. In those capacities, the Ukrainians stole from the Jews, harassed them, and often shot Jews at random. When the Germans began liquidating the ghettos of the Ukraine, the notoriously brutal Ukrainian policemen participated in those aktionen. They besieged the ghettos in order to prevent any escapes, searched for Jews who had gone into hiding, and chased down those who had managed to get away. They also accompanied the Jews to their executions, killed thousands of Jews who did not walk to their deaths fast enough, and guarded the execution sites so no one could get in or out.[2][3].
13 November 1942 members of Ukrainian Police robbed and executed 32 Poles and 1 Jew in village Obórki located in Volhynia. After the crime, the village was burned down.[3]
See also
- 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Galicia (1st Ukrainian)
- Cases of controversial relations with the Axis of World War II
- Collaboration with the Axis Powers during World War II
- Holocaust in Poland
- Holocaust in Ukraine
- List of alleged collaborators
- Responsibility for the Holocaust
- Schutzmannschaft
- Ukrainian-German collaboration during World War II
References
- ^ Czy uda się osądzić Johna Kalymona?, jewish.org.pl
- ^ Jarosław Hrycak, Too many evidences: Ukrainians in anti-Jewish actions (in Polish)
- ^ a b Grzegorz Motyka, Ukraińska partyzantka 1942-1960[page needed]
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