Battle of Lwów (1941) explained

Conflict:Battle of Lwów
Partof:Operation Barbarossa on the Eastern Front of World War II
Date:22–30 June 1941
Place:Lwów, Soviet-occupied Poland
Coordinates:49.8425°N 24.0322°W
Result:German–OUN victory
Combatant1:
Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists
Commander1: Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel
Yaroslav Stetsko
Commander2:
Strength1: 17th Army
Strength2: 6th Combined Arms Army

The Battle of Lwów was a World War II battle for the control over the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) between the Red Army and the invading Wehrmacht and the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists.

History

Protection of the city’s infrastructure was carried out by the 223rd regiment from the 13th division of the NKVD escort troops. On 24 June the 1st company of the regiment prevented the mass escape from Lvov Prison No. 1. Also, the soldiers of the regiment defended the city from the actions of looters, OUN members and Nazi saboteurs. From 29 to 30 June 1941 the regiment’s battalion covered the withdrawal of units of the 6th army from Lviv and then departed along the route -Bóbrka-Rohatyn-Kozova-Tarnopol under the direct influence of the Luftwaffe.

Immediately after the departure of the Red Army, NKVD troops and border guards, the massacre of Lviv professors[1] and Lviv pogrom[2] was organized, and then the ghetto and concentration camps began to form under the leadership of the German administration by the Ukrainian auxiliary police, formed from the OUN marching groups.[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]

The city was liberated from the Nazis three years later, in the summer of 1944, during the Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive.[15]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Schenk, Dieter . Der Lemberger Professorenmord und der Holocaust in Ostgalizien . 2007 . 978-3-8012-5033-1 . Bonn . Dietz . 839060671.
  2. Himka . John-Paul . John-Paul Himka . 2011 . The Lviv Pogrom of 1941: The Germans, Ukrainian Nationalists, and the Carnival Crowd . . 53 . 2–4 . 209–243 . 0008-5006 . Taylor & Francis . 10.1080/00085006.2011.11092673. 159577084 .
  3. http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/83452/ The Lviv pogrom of 1941
  4. Web site: Yad Vashem . 2005 . June 30: Germany occupies Lvov; 4,000 Jews killed by July 3 . https://archive.today/20050311224727/http://www1.yadvashem.org/about_holocaust/chronology/1939-1941/1941/chronology_1941_13.html . 2005-03-11 . dead . Yad Vashem .
  5. Web site: Lwów . Holocaust Encyclopedia . United States Holocaust Memorial Museum . 2006. Holocaust Encyclopedia.
  6. Web site: Yad Vashem . 2005 . July 25: Pogrom in Lwów . https://archive.today/20050311225417/http://www1.yadvashem.org/about_holocaust/chronology/1939-1941/1941/chronology_1941_18.html%23top . 2005-03-11 . Chronology of the Holocaust . Yad Vashem . dead . Yad Vashem .
  7. http://history.org.ua/LiberUA/Book/Patr/12.pdf І.К. Патриляк. Військова діяльність ОУН(Б) у 1940—1942 роках. — Університет імені Шевченко \Ін-т історії України НАН України Київ, 2004
  8. Philip Friedman. Ukrainian-Jewish Relations During the Nazi Occupation. In Roads to Extinction: Essays on the Holocaust. (1980) New York: Conference of Jewish Social Studies. pg. 181
  9. Philip Friedman. Ukrainian-Jewish Relations During the Nazi Occupation. at Yivo annual of Jewish social science Yiddish Scientific Institute, 1959 pg.268
  10. Institute of Ukrainian History, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, Chapter 2, pp.62-63
  11. [Timothy Snyder]
  12. Timothy Snyder. (2008). "The life and death of Volhynian Jewry, 1921-1945." In Brandon, Lowler (Eds.) The Shoah in Ukraine: history, testimony, memorialization. Indiana: Indiana University Press, pg. 95
  13. http://www.iwp.edu/news/newsID.139/news_detail.asp Divide and Conquer: the KGB Disinformation Campaign Against Ukrainians and Jews
  14. Book: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/bib2933 . Roads to Extinction: Essays on the Holocaust . Conference of Jewish Social Studies (YIVO) . Friedman, Philip . 1980 . New York . 203 . 0827601700 . Ukrainian-Jewish Relations During the Nazi Occupation . Ada June Friedman .
  15. Jerzy Węgierski (1989), W lwowskiej Armii Krajowej PAX, Warszawa; via Google Books.