User:Bandurist:Ukrainian military groups during WWII
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[edit] Wehrmacht formations
Within the Wehrmacht Ukrainian propaganda was banned. 17th volunteer Army (set up in Crimea in December 1943. Destroyed in May 1944 by Soviet forces)
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- 96 - (Ukrainian) company of engineers
- 562 -(Ukrainian)- motorised
- 666 - (Ukrainian) - motorised
49th corpus of 17th Army
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- 64 - (Ukrainian) company of engineers
- 101 - (Ukrainian) company of engineers
5th Army corpus of the 17th Army
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- 131 - (Ukrainian) company of engineers
- 9 - (Ukrainian) company of engineers
Ukrainian Free Cossacks (1942- ) Initiated by General M. Omelianovych-Pavlenko from remenants of Taras Bulba-Borovetz's UNRA
Sum Division - set up from POW's 10,000 soldiers fighting for the Germans under Kharkiv. Destroyed at Stalingrad. Under the command of von Schtumpfeld.
[edit] Abwehr formations
Intelligence gathering groups.
- 101 - Abwehrkomand in Stalino
- 102 - (or AK 1A) in Poltava, Kharkiv defunct by 1944. Oversaw Abwehr groups 104, 105, 106, 169, 173 and the Poltava spy school.
- 104 - Under the command of the 6th army. From May 1943 part of the 4th Tank army. Functioned out of Rivne.
- 203 - (Sonderkomand-203) also known as Bautrupp-203. Fought on the 2nd Ukrainian front.
- 202 -
- 204 -
- 206 -
- 220 -
[edit] SS formations
14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Galicia (1st Ukrainian)
[edit] Ukrainian Police formations
In Central Ukraine
- 101-111
- 113-126
- 129-131
- 134-140
- 143-146
- 157-169
- 109
- 115
- 166 - Schutzmanschaftbattalion
In Western Ukraine - Galizia
- 201-212
- 201 - Шуцманшафт (курень ім. Є. Коновальця) (с. 182) Made up from soldiers or Roland and Nachtigal after their liquidation. Formed 21 October 1941. 4 companies comanded by R. Shukhevych, M. Brigider, Leutnant Sydor, leutnant Pavlyk. Formal comander was E. Pobihushchy. The German commander was Moch. German police uniforms. Sent to Belarus march 16, 1942. Under the comand of J. Jakoby.
- 204 - shuma battalion (p 204)
[edit] German commanders
Hanz-Albrecht Herzner Brandenburger Oberleutenant Dr. - Roland
Theodor Oberländer. (Oberländer was later to become minister for Immigration in the Federal Republic of Germany.) - Nachtigall
The commander-in-chief was SS Oberführer Fritz Freitag
Sturmbannführer (Major) Wolf Heike was the chief of staff
Sturmbannführer (Major) Binz and Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant-Colonel) Franz Lechthaler were commanders of police regiments
