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4. SMALL RUSSIAN "HOLOCAUST" IN MODERN ISRAEL

Since 1960-s Israeli propaganda machine, Israeli embassy in Moscow,

Sochnut and intelligent services began to provoke Soviet citizens to

immigrate to Israel. Most of the Russian-speaking people were persecuted

and discriminated in Israel even by then. However, close to 1990-s this

tendency has developed in a real "small genocide". In the 1980-s 1990-s

almost 700 thousands people from USSR (and – later – post USSR) were

smartly pushed to Israel by deception, provocation, sometimes by force.

Israelis had plans to turn most of them into servants and slaves to

replace Arabs, who became too dangerous for "sabras" and "vatikim".

"Russians" were deprived of any social or translation assistance. Sochnut

and the Ministry of Absorption (Immigration) only pretended to provide

some assistance, in reality not giving any. "Russian" puppet organizations

like Sharansky's Zionist Forum, etc. were founded by the Israeli government

and provided no real help either. New "Russian" immigrants were left

one on one with the housing agents (mediators) or landlords, employers,

etc. Most of them became victims of indescribable frauds and cheating.

"Russian" immigrants were deprived of real welfare or financial assistance.

They were forced to pay $500 – 600 a months for 2-3 – room neglected,

non renovated apartments, and deprived of the social houses. When hundreds

of thousands of the government-subsidized fresh-constructed apartments

stood empty, thousands of "Russian" families found themselves on the

verge of evictions or homeless in the streets. Under International, Jewish

Diaspora's and internal criticism the Israeli government in a stubborn

intention not to give "Russians" social houses started to import astronomically

expensive one-room caravans, which price was higher then a construction

of a conventional apartment. Caravan villages, intentionally placed

in wilderness, far from cities, with no schools, cultural facilities

or clubs, surrounded by barbed wires like prisons, intentionally populated

not only by "Russians" but also by Hebrew speaking criminals, declassed

social elements, drug-users, alcoholics, and by new arrivals from underdeveloped

African countries, became artificially-created first "Russian" ghettoes.

At summer caravans inhabitants suffered from unbearable heat, at winter

– from cold. Each caravan was an overcrowded, miserable tiny place,

never designed as a habitation. Caravan villages were dirty, devastated

cloaks, where generations of undereducated, non cultural, futureless

"Russian" kids were raised. Arik SHARON, by then – Minister of Construction,

– was mostly responsible for that. Israeli media and state propaganda

was rousing hatred towards Russian speaking people by portraying them

as enemies, alcoholics, undeveloped, wild people. Crimes against "Russians"

like assaults, batteries, insults, rapes, fraud, racism, discrimination,

expropriation of property or vandalism against property, lawfulness

illegal evictions, and many others, were never stopped or prosecuted. "Russians"

had no police protection. "Russian" children were discriminated, abused,

beaten, killed at schools or even pre-schools, tens of thousands of

"Russian" women have been raped, "Russian" workers were not paid at

all or paid less then the minimum wage, abused, beaten, and injured

at work. Two sections of Israeli law – "Kablanut" and "Kviyut" codes

– enabled to turn many "Russians" into temporary or permanent slaves.

What we see today as assaults on Arabs was in 1990-s "rehearsed" on

"Russians". Because there were no labor norms of exploiting "kablan"-hired

unprotected "Russians", thousands and thousands were injured, killed,

or became handicapped at work. Assaults on "Russians" and rapes of Russian

speaking women became a kind of a sport for Hebrew speaking neighbors,

employers, or supervisors, and the policemen. No killer or rapist was

never prosecuted! The main excuse for crimes against the Russian speaking

people in Israel was that Russians are hidden Christians. "Russians"

were forced to leave biggest Israeli cities, new legislation to restrict

them from residing in Haifa, Jerusalem, or Tel Aviv. They were moved

to "developing" cities with no work and law life standards like Afula,

Ashdod, Kiriat-Gat, Dimona, Beer-Sheva, etc. There artificial secondary

(after caravans) "Russian" ghettos were created, where new generations

of "Russians" are raised in poverty, discrimination, futureless and forced

to the criminal sphere of life. Hundreds of thousands of "Russians"

fled Israel. Israeli government and the local Jewish organizations like

Bnei Brith are responsible for persecuting these people in Canada, USA,

and Europe, influencing or invading immigration institutions in many

countries to force them back to Israel. (see More)

Resources about persecutions of the Russian-speaking people in Israel:

Gregory SVIRSKY, Efraim SEVELA, Efraim MELAMED, Michael DORFMAN,

Savely KASHNIZKI, Alexander ORLOVSKY, Rivka RABINOVICH, Irma

ZIKOL, etc. Main works on "small" Russian genocide in Israel: Lev

GUNIN.GULAG of Palestine. (Editor – Svetlana EPIFANOVA). Lev GUNIN.

JEWISH WARS.

5. PROVOKING ANTISEMITISM

Let's imagine that lobbies of nation X around the world

made any discussions about X-ish genocide forbidden, and this is when

the leaders of X-s continue benefiting from enormous compensation almost

a century after the genocide. Using historically inevitable from time

to time unfriendly tendencies towards just any minority as an excuse,

nation's X leaders are using excessive force against any manifestation

of such unfriendly attitude or even what they wrongly interpreting as

"unfriendly". Consequently denouncing bloody crimes against

humanity of the regime of the State of X and local X-s councils (organizations)

in Diaspora is called "xenophobia". Anybody, who raised deep

questions about the human rights situation in the State of X and within

local X-s communities, is severely persecuted. Naturally, such a policy

would provoke spontaneous anti-X-ers feelings, and the denial of X-ish

genocide as the most natural automatic reaction. In the same way simple

as not very simple people will always test extremes of the "Jewish

power"; and "Jewish conspiracy" by denying Holocaust and

watching an expected Jewish excessive force in return. Blocking any

civilized discussion about any topic directly or indirectly involving

Jews (on historical, philosophical, ethical, religious level), Jewish

extremists will face more and more dangerous for innocent ordinary Jews

response on the primitive level. Jewish extremist organizations and

the government of Israel do not care about safety and wealth of ordinary

Jews. They represent a mighty totalitarian power, which exist in no

one interests. Only a small group of bastards benefits from this power.

This power became a modern inquisition, one of the modern Evils. However,

only one of Them. Communist regimes, eastern dictatorships, Indian-type

"democracies" (Israel is just one of them), anti-European

regimes like Pakistan, Afganistan, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, etc.

they are the same. We (people who consider themselves as Europeans,

no matter what skin color or face they have) must understand who are

enemies and who are friends of Europe. We have already our culture half

destroyed, our leaders corrupted by the Eastern powers, our countries

in Northern hemisphere (plus Australia) have been already transformed

into a "transitional" (remember: Eastern block, Western

block?) between capitalism (democracy) – and Eastern-type tyranny-slavery.

Since 1980-s, by eliminating civil freedoms and privacy, Western governments

slowly but inevitably transforming their countries into societies of

the eastern type. Jewish extremism is an important player in this process

of blowing up the European civilization from within. Jewish extremists

are traditionally anti-democratic reactionaries, who's goals are to destroy

democracy and progressive thinking everywhere. Their doctrine is to

take just any rights from the people, turn majority into slaves, and

eliminate basic human rights and freedoms. Their main allay is not USA

or Canada – as most of us are thinking – but UK. How comes that Israel,

a country, where Christians are persecute, beaten and humiliated, became

the most important "friend" of the Christian world? How comes that the

most brutal regimes in the world – like India, Israel, Pakistan, or

Kazakstan, were called democracies? Why and by whom Saudi Arabia, Bahrain,

South Korea, Kazahstan, Israel and other countries with hatred to European

culture and anti-European propaganda were considered as allays – and

Iraq, Lebanon, Iran, or Serbia – not? Tyranny, starvation, exploitation

of children, numbers of repressed people, scale of poverty and homelessness

in Iraq, Iran, and some other anti-democracies are several times lower

then in "great democracies" like India or Israel, where wide number

of people are treated like cattle. How comes that Israel, a country,

where Christians are persecute, beaten and humiliated, became the most

important "friend" of the Christian world? How comes that the most brutal

regimes in the world – like India, Israel, Pakistan, or Kazakstan, were

called democracies? Why and by whom Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, South Korea,

Kazahstan, Israel and other countries with hatred to European culture

and anti-European propaganda were considered as allays – and Iraq, Lebanon,

Iran, or Serbia – not? Tyranny, starvation, exploitation of children,

numbers of repressed people, scale of poverty and homelessness in Iraq,

Iran, and some other anti-democracies are several times lower then in

"great democracies" like India or Israel, where wide number of people

are treated like cattle. Instead of supporting nations, which are historically,

traditionally, culturally closer to Europeans, our rulers, corrupted

or threatened by the Eastern regimes like Israel, are supporting our

most furious enemies. Support, which is given to the Jewish Extremists

by the governments of the Western world, is not popular. People are

not supporting it. Sooner or later this situation will resolve in pogroms

and insults against the ordinary Jews. We all must be awaken before

it not too late...

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CONTENT

1. Demonizing nations

(Jewish extremists' lie and columniation of the whole nations like Ukrainians and Polish)

2. Israel-Jewish Diaspora World-Wide criminal activity

(Jewish extremists lobbism is behind the cover up of the Israel-related criminal activity world wide and money laundering)

3. Dissidents – victims of the Jewish Extremists' global totalitarian power (Israeli military assault against Western democracy)

(Thousands or maybe millions of people are persecuted by Jewish totalitarian machine all over the world. Persecutions include kidnapping, executions, assassinations, batteries, and administrative, financial and other terror)

4. Politically and Criminally Motivated Jewish Medical Mafia

5. Victor Ostrovsky's "By Way of Deception" extracts

1. Demonizing nations

(Jewish extremists' lie and columniation of the whole nations like Ukrainians and Polish)

FROM UKRAINIAN ARCHIVE WEB SITE

http://ukar.org/

HOME DISINFORMATION 60 MINUTES 19628 hits since 26Jan98

We saw above that an entire Ukrainian family was shot by the Nazis for hiding a Jewish woman,

but can we find a single instance of an entire Jewish family being shot by the Bolsheviks for hiding

a Ukrainian woman? We saw above that the Ukrainian mayor of a town was shot by the Nazis for

helping Jews, but can we find a single instance of a Jewish mayor – and there were many

Jewish mayors in Ukraine – being shot by the Bolsheviks for helping Ukrainians? We saw above

Metropolitan Sheptytsky risking his life and the lives of other Ukrainians by hiding Jews on church

property, but can we find a single instance of a rabbi risking his life and the lives of other Jews by

hiding Ukrainians on synagogue property?

The Ugly Face of 60 Minutes

Lubomyr Prytulak

Last updated:

9Feb98 Rudolph Vrba Accusation added to the section on "Paralysis of the Comparative Function"

24Feb98 Einsatzgruppen quotes added to the section on "What Happened in Lviv?"

28Mar98 Himmler quote added toward the bottom of "Were Ukrainians Nazis?"

9Jun98 Link to Shapoval added toward the bottom of "What Happened in Lviv? During the preceding few days"

13Jun98 Link to Sion-Osnova Controversy added to the bottom of "Quality of Translation"

13Jun98 Link to discussion of Jewish Ghetto Police added to the bottom of "Collective Guilt"

24Feb99 Comparison of German SS and Ukrainian Waffen-SS oaths added to "The Galicia Division"

24Mar99 External link to Symon Petliura page at bottom of "Symon Petliura"

12Jun99 Elaboration with external link at bottom of "Sol Littman's Mengele Scare"

13Jun99 Comment on Jewish chain of command within CBS added to "Preface"

03Jul99 Nine quotes added near bottom of "What Happened in Lviv?"

CONTENTS:

Preface

The Galicia Division

Quality of Translation

Ukrainian Homogeneity

Were Ukrainians Nazis?

Simon Wiesenthal

What Happened in Lviv?

Nazi Propaganda Film

Collective Guilt

Paralysis of the Comparative

Function

60 Minutes' Cheap Shots

Ukrainian Anti-Semitism

Jewish Ukrainophobia

Mailbag

A Sense of Responsibility

What 60 Minutes Should Do

PostScript

Preface

On 23 Oct 1994, CBS television broadcast a twelve-minute segment on its weekly

investigative-journalism show 60 Minutes titled The Ugly Face of Freedom, produced by Jeffrey

Fager and hosted by Morley Safer. The program's goal was to indict Ukrainian society and

history and to discredit the legitimacy of the Ukrainian State. The program's method was to

pack the broadcast with what may be the most concentrated segment of disinformation, calumny,

and hatred ever to make its appearance in the mainstream media. The program had been ready for

over half a year, but was not broadcast until the first official visit to the United States of

Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma. Whether this timing was by coincidence or design became the

subject of comment among some program viewers.

From the beginning of the affair, it could not escape notice that this broadcast was not only an

attack upon Ukrainians and upon the nation of Ukraine, but that it was a Jewish attack, this

because every last person bearing responsibility for the broadcast, from the very top of the

chain of command to the very bottom, was Jewish:

Laurence Tisch, Chairman and CEO of CBS

Eric Ober, President of CBS News

Don Hewitt, Executive Producer of 60 Minutes

Jeffrey Fager, Producer of The Ugly Face of Freedom

Morley Safer, Program Host

Simon Wiesenthal, one of the two featured program witnesses

Yaakov Bleich, the other of the two featured program witnesses

That attacks upon Ukraine come overwhelmingly from Jews has been amply documented on the

Ukrainian Archive (UKAR), as for example in the discussion of Jerzy Kosinski, where it is noted

that ten out of ten of the leading calumniators of Ukraine are Jews. Possible reasons for this

phenomenon have been discussed throughout UKAR, with three of the chief reasons being: (1) the

acceleration of the brain drain from Ukraine to Israel with the help of a partly-magnified and

partly-incited resentment against Jews, (2) the heightening of Jewish cohesion through the

inculcation of fear and hatred of Gentiles, as by the Jewish keeping alive of a distorted memory

of the Khmelnytsky rebellion of 1648, and (3) the need to discredit the historical observation

that Jews typically victimize Ukrainians by inculcating the opposite image of Ukrainians

victimizing Jews.

On 15 Nov 1994, I mailed a letter to then CBS Chairman Laurence A. Tisch which consisted of a

lengthy critique of the 60 Minutes broadcast. I simultaneously mailed copies of this letter to

the host of the broadcast, Morley Safer, as well as the co-hosts Ed Bradley, Steve Kroft, Lesley

Stahl, and Mike Wallace. I received no reply from any of them. On 17 Dec 1994, I mailed a

covering letter to Laurence Tisch together with an expanded version of my critique (the critique

was now titled The Ugly Face of 60 Minutes, and was dated 11 Dec 1994), with copies to the same

host and co-hosts. I again received no reply.

In an attempt to clarify the accuracy of the 60 Minutes broadcast, other letters were sent,

among them letters to Michael Jordan, Chairman of Westinghouse, following the Westinghouse

purchase of CBS in 1995, letters to Simon Wiesenthal, star witness on The Ugly Face of Freedom,

and letters to Rabbi Yaakov Bleich, supporting witness on the same program. Nor were my letters

the only ones sent – in fact, CBS received some 16,000 pieces of mail protesting the 60 Minutes

broadcast. To my knowledge, not a single one of these letters has ever been answered, or even

acknowledged, the muteness of CBS and others involved leaving the impression that they are

unable to muster any defense for the 60 Minutes broadcast.

At that time, and since, I have circulated copies of my critique widely, and have received many

favorable comments. In a small number of instances, I was grateful for helpful suggestions as

to minor revisions; however, no one challenged any of my major criticisms or arguments,

encouraging me to believe that these were fundamentally correct.

Below you will find the latest version of this same critique, substantially longer and more

detailed than the original, but basically offering no more than an elaboration of the material

already long in the hands of CBS. I will not again waste postage mailing this critique to CBS

with the advent of the internet, there are less costly ways to disseminate information; if CBS

wants to see this latest version, it will have no trouble finding it.

The defects of the 60 Minutes broadcast as so multifarious, that it is difficult to capture them

in one brief statement. If one were to attempt to do so, then the statement might mention that

60 Minutes misrepresented the historical record, provided mistranslations of statements

originally made in Ukrainian, suppressed pertinent information concerning Ukrainian-Jewish

relations during World War II, encouraged retrogressive notions of collective guilt, altered the

dates on which events were supposed to have occurred, doctored the sound track, accepted dubious

and implausible statements from sources whose credibility had not been established or whose

credibility should have been suspect, and generally in numerous instances employed questionable

evidence to point to conclusions that were untrue, provocative, and inflammatory. There follows

below an outline of the chief defects of this 60 Minutes broadcast.

CONTENTS:

Preface

The Galicia Division

Quality of Translation

Ukrainian Homogeneity

Were Ukrainians Nazis?

Simon Wiesenthal

What Happened in Lviv?

Nazi Propaganda Film

Collective Guilt

Paralysis of the Comparative

Function

60 Minutes' Cheap Shots

Ukrainian Anti-Semitism

Jewish Ukrainophobia

Mailbag

A Sense of Responsibility

What 60 Minutes Should Do

PostScript

The Galicia Division

60 Minutes' chief piece of evidence for Ukrainian anti-Semitism and predilection for Naziism

seems to be the official celebrations commemorating the Galicia Division. Elderly men in

civilian dress are shown wearing military insignia in a recent reunion in the city of Lviv,

Ukraine (Lvov in Russian, Lwow in Polish, formerly Lemberg). Mr. Safer informs us that

"Thousands of Ukrainians joined the SS and marched off to fight for Naziism," and that "Nowhere,

not even in Germany, are the SS so openly celebrated," and that "Many of the Ukrainian men of

Lvov who marched off as members of the SS never returned – killed fighting for Hitler."

The impression created in the viewer's mind is that these veterans are unanimously guilty of war

crimes and crimes against humanity, that they were once supporters of and now continue to be

admirers of Hitler, that they sympathized with Nazi ambitions during World War II, that they are

the remnants of a much larger group of Ukrainians who shared a similar orientation, and that as

their reunion was sanctioned by the Lviv City Council and the Ukrainian Catholic Church, similar

charges must apply to Ukrainians generally. To all this, however, I must echo Cardinal

Lubachivsky's words: "It is not true!"

The Galicia Division was recruited by the Germans only well into the war, in the summer and fall

of 1943 when they were beginning to experience setbacks on their Eastern front. That the

Galicia Division was considered an "SS" division does not bear the significance given it by 60

Minutes – it was a Waffen SS division, which is quite a different thing: "Like other German

volunteer units, the Division Halychyna [Galicia] was included in the 14th Grenadier Division of

the SS-Waffen." (Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopaedia, Volume 2, p. 1088.)

Five qualities of the Galicia Division make it a most atypical component of the stereotype of

the SS: (1) it was strictly a combat unit and so played no role in the management of

concentration camps or death camps, (2) its Ukrainian members wore a lion rampant instead of an

"SS" on their right collars during most of the life of the division, (3) it was accompanied by

Ukrainian chaplains who attended to the spiritual needs of the troops, (4) it was kept separate

from other German forces, and (5) it was created with the proviso that it never be used against

the Western Allies, but only against Soviet forces on the Eastern front. These five qualities

alone render the Galicia Division an entity unlike any that was being conjured up in the minds

of 60 Minutes viewers.

Photographs contrasting different insignia of

German and Ukrainian members of the Galicia

Division

Of course the members of any military unit will be required to swear oaths of obedience to the

Commander-in-Chief. No fighting force can function without such an oath, and the members of the

Galicia Division were unable to avoid swearing one. However, compare the differences in the

German SS oath and the Ukrainian Waffen-SS oath:

German SS Oath

"I swear to you Adolf Hitler, as Leader and Chancellor of the Reich, loyalty

and valor. I vow to you and all those you place over me obedience until

death, so help me God."

Ukrainian Waffen-SS Oath

"I swear by God this holy oath, that in the struggle against Bolshevism I will

give the Commander-in-Chief of the German Armed Forces, Adolf Hitler, absolute

obedience, and if it be his will, as a fearless soldier, I will always be

prepared to lay down my life for this oath." (Richard Landwehr, Fighting for

Freedom: The Ukrainian Volunteer Division of the Waffen-SS, Bibliophile Legion

Books, Silver Spring, Maryland, 1985, p. 45)

Here are three revealing differences between the above oaths: (1) The German SS oath swears to

Adolf Hitler who happens to be leader, whereas the Ukrainian Waffen-SS oath swears to the leader

who happens to be Adolf Hitler. (2) The German SS oath does not restrict the Germans to any

limited role, but the Ukrainian Waffen-SS oath does restrict the Ukrainian role to the "struggle

against Bolshevism." (3) In the words "obedience until death," the German SS oath appears to

imply obedience for the rest of one's life, whereas the Ukrainian Waffen-SS oath limits the

duration of the obedience to the period of service "as a fearless soldier." These are not

insignificant differences – they constitute an affirmation that the Ukrainians had their own

goals, and that these overlapped with German goals only on the matter of opposing the Soviet

re-occupation of Ukraine. For the Ukrainians to have won an even greater variance from the

fundamental German SS oath would have been for the Germans to accept into their armed forces

members who were openly declaring recalcitrance and insubordination.

The Ukrainian motivation for permitting the formation of the Galicia Division was threefold: (1)

the existence of the division would serve to improve German treatment of Ukrainians in the

occupied territories, (2) the Division would form the nucleus of a national army which might

promote Ukrainian aspirations to statehood, and (3) the Division would be thrown into the fight

to oppose the Soviet re-occupation of Ukraine.

Even though both Canada and the U.S. have Nazi-hunting units within their respective Justice

Departments, not a single member of the Division has ever been convicted of any war crime and

none has ever been charged. The absence of evidence of any wrongdoing not only of the Division

as a whole, but also of any member of the Division, during his membership in the Division or

before or after, is widely recognized. Judge Jules Deschenes, heading Canada's Commission of

Inquiry on War Criminals, concluded that:

The members of the Galicia Division were individually screened for security

purposes before admission to Canada. Charges of war crimes against members of

the Galicia Division have never been substantiated, neither in 1950 when they

were first preferred, nor in 1984 when they were renewed, nor before this

Commission. ... In the absence of evidence of participation in or knowledge of

specific war crimes, mere membership in the Galicia Division is insufficient to

justify prosecution. (Jules Deschenes, Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals,

1986, p. 12)

Judge Deschenes cites a 1947 report of a British Screening Commission which was filed just prior

to the Galicia Division being moved from Italy to Britain (note that these are the words of the

1947 British Screening Commission, not of Judge Deschenes):

They probably were not, and certainly do not now seem to be at heart

pro-German, and the fact that they did give aid and comfort to the Germans can

fairly be considered to have been incidental and not fundamental. (in Jules

Deschenes, Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals, 1986, p. 253)

A 1950 British Foreign Office report to the Canadian Department of External Affairs concerning

the Galicia Division was also cited by Judge Deschenes (note that these are the words of the

1950 British Foreign Office, not of Judge Deschenes):

While in Italy these men were screened by Soviet and British missions and

neither then nor subsequently has any evidence been brought to light which

would suggest that any of them fought against the Western Allies or engaged in

crimes against humanity. Their behaviour since they came to this country has

been good and they have never indicated in any way that they are infected with

any trace of Nazi ideology. ... From the reports of the special mission set

up by the War Office to screen these men, it seems clear that they volunteered

to fight against the Red Army from nationalistic motives which were given

greater impetus by the behaviour of the Soviet authorities during their earlier

occupation of the Western Ukraine after the Nazi-Soviet Pact. Although

Communist propaganda has constantly attempted to depict these, like so many

other refugees, as "quislings" and "war criminals" it is interesting to note

that no specific charges of war crimes have been made by the Soviet or any

other Government against any members of this group. (in Jules Deschenes,

Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals, 1986, p. 252)

Judge Deschenes concludes:

It is an acknowledged fact that the members of the Division were volunteers who

had enlisted in the spring and summer of 1943, essentially to combat the

"Bolsheviks"; indeed, they were never used against Western allies. (Jules

Deschenes, Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals, 1986, p. 255)

Although as we have just seen "no specific charges of war crimes have been made by the Soviet or

any other Government against any members of this group," Mr. Safer ventures to do what no one

has done before – where angels fear to tread, Mr. Safer rushes in to lay a specific crime at the

feet of the Galicia Division:

SAFER: Thousands of Ukrainians joined the SS and marched off to fight for

Naziism. In the process, they helped round up Lvov's Jews, helped march more

than 140,000 of them to extinction – virtually every Jew in Lvov.

However, the rounding up of Lviv's Jews was begun in 1941 and was largely completed in 1942, so

that by 1943 when the Galicia Division was formed, there were not 140,000 Jews left in Lviv to

round up. In truth, the Galicia Division never participated in the rounding up of Jews in Lviv

or anywhere else. To repeat: the Galicia Division was a combat unit. More particularly, the

Galicia Division saw action on only a single occasion – in facing the Soviets in the Battle of

Brody in July 1944.

Talk of the Galicia Division Induces Paralysis of the Comparative Function

The broad topic of "Paralysis of the Comparative Function" is discussed within its own larger

section below, but such a paralysis becomes evident in other places throughout this essay, as

for example in discussions of the Galicia Division. In such discussions, the comparison – the

elementary and obvious comparison – that is not made is that between the Ukrainian contribution

to German armed forces of Waffen SS troops and the similar contribution made by other peoples.

Below, I reproduce a quote from an interview by Slavko Nowytski of Professor Norman Davies,

historian at the University of London, and author of the recent Europe: A History, published by

Oxford University Press:

In discussing the question of collaborating with Germany Prof. Davies noted

that, "A large number of the volunteers for the Waffen SS came from Western

Europe. The nation which supplied it the largest number of divisions was the

Netherlands [four]. There were two Belgian divisions, there was a French

Waffen SS. To my mind, it's rather surprising that Ukraine, which is a much

larger country [than the Netherlands or Belgium] supplied only one Waffen SS

Division.... It's surprising that there were so few Ukrainians [in the German

Army]. Many people don't know, for example, that there were far more Russians

fighting alongside the Wehrmacht or in the various German armies than there

were Ukrainians.... Thanks to Soviet propaganda, the Russian contribution to