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Yaroslav Hunka (en ucraniano: Ярослав Гунька; Urman, c. 19 de marzo de 1925 1 ) es un militar retirado ucraniano que combatió durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial en las filas de la 14.ª División de Granaderos SS (conocida como la División Galitzia), una formación militar de las Waffen-SS de la Alemania nazi .
- Ярослав Гунька
Yaroslav Hunka scandal. On 22 September 2023, Yaroslav Hunka, a Ukrainian Canadian who fought in the SS Division Galicia of the military wing of the Nazi Party, the Waffen-SS, was invited to the House of Commons of Canada to be recognized by Speaker Anthony Rota, the Member of Parliament for Hunka's district.
- Background
- Formation and Support
- Recruitment and Composition
- Training
- First Combat Deployment
- Rebuilding and Second Deployment
- 1st Division of The Una
- Atrocities and War Crimes
- Organization
- Commanders
Status of Galicia
The region of Galicia, in modern-day southern Poland and western Ukraine, was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1772 and then the Austrian Empire until 1918. It was briefly involved in Ukrainian efforts for national independence in the chaos that followed World War I, between 1918 and 1920, before being made part of Poland. During World War I many volunteers from Galicia joined the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen units of the Austro-Hungarian Army, and they formed a part of the Ukraini...
German invasion and occupation
There was cooperation between members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists living in Germany and the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service led by Wilhelm Canaris, starting before the German invasion of Poland. The willingness of the German military to work with Ukrainian nationalists led them to believe that Germany would recognize Ukrainian independence in the future in exchange for their assistance. An OUN battalion accompanied German forces into Poland in September 1939...
The idea of recruiting Ukrainians into the Waffen-SS was first proposed by Gottlob Berger, the head of the SS Main Office, as early as April 1941. His request was rejected by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmlerbecause of racial reasons. It was not brought up again until 1942 by Otto Wächter, who had been appointed as the second German governor of Gali...
In early May 1943 the recruitment process slowly began. Rallies were held across cities and towns in Galicia for two months, and by mid-1943, as the division received support from retired Ukrainian officers and the UPA, recruitment picked up. After the first three months of the recruitment drive, there were 80,000 volunteers for the SS Division Gal...
The recruits began leaving for training on 18 July 1943, and they were seen off by a rally of over 50,000 people in Lviv. Around this time the division received its first commanding officer, SS-Brigadeführer and Major General of Waffen-SS Walter Schimana, who was more of an administrator than a military commander. The training was initially done at...
Anti-partisan actions
About 2,000 Galicia Division soldiers were deployed as Kampfgruppe Beyersdorff to the Biłgoraj–Zamość area in southeast Poland. The formation was divided into two smaller groups, with one of them being sent to Lviv, and commenced anti-partisan operations against Soviet guerilla fighters from 28 February until 27 March 1944. They attacked a partisan group, inflicting casualties, and discovered hidden weapons caches. About 20 to 25 Galicia Division soldiers were killed. The Kampfgruppe Beyersdo...
Brody
By the summer of 1944 the Soviets were on the offensive across the Eastern Front while Germany attempted to hold on to the territory it still had. Most of Ukraine had been retaken by the Red Army, but the majority of Belarus and the Baltic statesremained under German control. In the spring the Soviets began pushing into the regions of western Ukraine that had been part of Poland before the war. On 15 May 1944, the 1st Ukrainian Front was established under Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev for the pur...
Out of the around 11,000 soldiers in the Galicia Division who fought at Brody, only 3,000 escaped the encirclement. The others were killed or taken prisoner by the Soviets, and some of the survivors decided to escape and join the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). Another source estimated that an additional 2,000 survived, but in the retreat either jo...
On 12 March 1945, Alfred Rosenberg issued a decree stating that the German government recognized the Ukrainian National Committee as the sole representative of the Ukrainians in Germany. Formed in late 1944, the organizers of the committee included Andriy Melnyk, Stepan Bandera, and Volodymyr Kubiyovych, the head of the Ukrainian Central Committee,...
The 1 October 1946 Judgement at Nuremberg against "Major War Criminals" did not specifically mention this unit, but ruled that all persons who had been officially accepted as members of the SS after 1 September 1939 and who became or remained members of the organization with knowledge that it was being used for the commission of war crimes or who w...
The name of the division was changed several times during its short history. The name Waffen-Grenadier der SSwas used for SS infantry divisions that primarily consisted of non-Germanic people, as a way of getting around the organization's racial policies, because these units were subordinated to the SS but not fully part of it. 1. SS-Volunteer Divi...
The following officers were the commanders of the division. Fritz Freitag was the longest serving commander of the Galicia Division, and he continued in that role until the German surrender at the end of the war, at which point he committed suicide. Freitag, the newly appointed commander Pavlo Shandruk, who had taken command in the last days of the...
Yaroslav Hunka (Ukrainian: Ярослав Гунька; born 19 March 1925) is a Ukrainian-Canadian World War II veteran of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician), which was part of the Nazi Germany military.
- Ярослав Гунька
- Waffen-SS
Yaroslav Hunka ( en ucraniano: Ярослав Гунька; Urman, c. 19 de marzo de 1925) es un militar retirado ucraniano que combatió durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial en las filas de la 14.ª División de Granaderos SS (conocida como la División Galitzia), una formación militar de las Waffen-SS de la Alemania nazi.
27 de sept. de 2023 · Quién es Yaroslav Hunka, el criminal de guerra nazi que fue homenajeado en el Parlamento de Canadá. El ucraniano de 98 años fue ovacionado por el presidente ucraniano, Volodymyr Zelensky, por...
27 de sept. de 2023 · Jaroslav Hunka, el nazi que fue "héroe" por un día al 'engañar' a Canadá y Ucrania. El ministro de Educación de Polonia ha dado curso a una investigación con vistas a pedir su extradición. El veterano combatiente de la División Galizien Yaroslav Hunka, en el Parlamento canadiense. | CTV/ Parlamento de Canadá. Ana Alonso @alonsay.
