The Guardian Newspaper and Editing Out Neo-Nazi Ukraine Story

[David Guyatt]

Since the foregoing article touches on Galicia, it would be remiss of me not to mention:

14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician)

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Divisional insignia of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician)[/TD]
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[TH]Country[/TH]
[TD] Germany[/TD]
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[TH]Branch[/TH]
[TD] Waffen SS[/TD]
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[TH="class: fn, bgcolor: #B0C4DE, colspan: 2, align: center"]Service history[/TH]
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[TH]Active[/TH]
[TD]28 April 1943 15 April 1945[/TD]
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[TH]Size[/TH]
[TD]Division[/TD]
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[TH]Nickname[/TH]
[TD]Galician Division
Dyvizzia Halychyna[/TD]
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[TH]Colors[/TH]
[TD]Blue & Yellow [SUP][1][/SUP][/TD]
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[TH]Battles[/TH]
[TD]Lvov-Sandomierz Offensive
Slovak National Uprising
Vienna Offensive[/TD]
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[TH="class: fn, bgcolor: #B0C4DE, colspan: 2, align: center"]Commanders[/TH]
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[TH]Commanders[/TH]
[TD]Walter Schimana
Fritz Freitag[/TD]
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The 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) (German language: 14. Waffen Grenadier Division der SS (galizische Nr.1), prior to 1944 titled the[B]14th SS-Volunteer Division "Galician" (German language: 14. SS-Freiwilligen Division "Galizien")[SUP][1][/SUP] was a World War II German military formation initially made up of volunteers from the region of Galicia with a Ukrainian ethnic background[SUP][2][/SUP] but later also incorporated Slovaks, Czechs[SUP][2][/SUP][SUP][3][/SUP] and Dutch volunteers and officers.[SUP][4][/SUP] Formed in 1943, it was largely destroyed in the battle of Brody, reformed, and saw action in Slovakia, Yugoslavia and Austria before being renamed the first division of the Ukrainian National Armyand surrendering to the Western Allies by 10 May 1945.[/B]

Snipped from a longer background HERE