Pure Soldiers or Sinister Legion

by Sol Littman

Overview

Pure Soldiers traces the 14th Waffen-SS Division's fortunes from its formation in April 1943 until its surrender to the British in May 1946, their subsequent stay as prisoners-of-war in Italy, and their eventual transfer as agricultural workers in Britain. In 1950 they began their immigration to Canada and the United States. Along the way they were recruited by the British as anti-Soviet spies and by the CIA as political assassins. In spelling out the Division's history, the author attempts to shed light on this acrimonious dispute that rages to the present day.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781551642192
Publisher:	Black Rose Books
Publication date:	05/21/2003
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sol Littman is the recently retired Canadian Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, author of War Criminal on Trial, founding editor of the Canadian Jewish News and the first Director of B'nai Brith's "League for Human Rights." He also served as Assistant National Director of the Anti-Defamation League in the United States and has enjoyed a longstanding relationship with both the Canadian Jewish Congress and the World Jewish Congress. He has served as a reporter/producer with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and an editorial writer with The Toronto Star.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 2 THE DIVISION IS ORGANIZED Origins of the Freiwilligen Legionen CHAPTER 3 THE 1919-1920 CIVIL WAR IN UKRAINE The Civil War in Galicia The Anti-Jewish Pogroms CHAPTER 4 THE OUN (ORGANIZATION OF UKRAINIAN NATIONALISTS) Dmitri Dontsov OUN Connections with the Abwehr CHAPTER 5 SLAUGHTER IN LVIV The Role of the Nachtigall Battalion East-European Antisemitism CHAPTER 6 EINSARGRUPPEN, POLICE AUXILIARIES AND THE WAFFEN-SS The Recruitment of Local Police Auxiliaries The Police Battalions and the War against "Bandits" The Nature of the Waffen-SS CHAPTER 7 UNDER SOVIET AND GERMAN OCCUPATION The Roland and Nachtigall Detachments The Division's Ukrainian Officers Ukrainian Units and the Warsaw Uprising CHAPTER 8 THE GALICIAN DIVISION The Relationship of the Division to the Waffen-SS The Division's Police Antecedents CHAPTER 9 OFFICERS AND ADMINISTRATORS The Training Period The Oath Atrocities Himmler Visits the Division CHAPTER 10 FROM BRODY TO TAMSWEG: DEFEAT AND SURRENDER The Battle of Brody The Division in Slovakia From Neumark to Zilinia: From 'Galician' to 'Ukrainian' Under a New Guise: 1st Ukrainian Division of the Ukrainian National Army Pavlo Shandruk: A Ukrainian General Preparations for Surrender Crisis in Klagenfurt Final Surrender CHAPTER 11 FROM TAMSWEG TO RIMINI: THE DIVISION IN CAPTIVITY The Yalta Agreement and the Cossacks Yalta and the Division Tito's Antics CHAPTER 12 POSTWAR IRONIES The Division Accused Chetniks, Ustashas and the Maclean Commission The Italian Dilemma History Re-written CHAPTER 13 THE HALDANE PORTER REPORT CHAPTER 14 FROM ITALY TO THE UNITED KINGDOM Smoothing the Way Compromise and Cover Up Stonewalling CHAPTER 15 LOYALTIES IN DOUBT Questions of Loyalty Kirkconnell, Philipps and the Founding of the UCC Panchuk and the Central Ukrainian Relief Bureau Ae Shifting Tide in Ottawa CHAPTER 16 PRESSURE, PRESSURE, PRESSURE The Canadian Christian Council for the Resettlement of Refugees The Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) vs. The Canadian Ukrainian Committee CHAPTER 17 GUILT AND INNOCENCE War Aims of the Ukrainian Nationalists Reunion in Lviv CHAPTER 18 THE OUN, SIS, OSS AND CIA The Gehlen Organization The "Rat Line" Klaus Barbie Criminal Conspiracy or Blatant Discrimination Cold War Assassins Mykolo Lebed The Anti-Communist Bloc of Nations The Prometheus League The Route to America International Refugee Organizations Fascists or Freedom Fighters