A war hero or a Hitler soldier?
The article is devoted to the biography of General Pavlo Shandruk, an Ukrainian officer who served as a Polish contract officer in the interwar period and at the beginning of the World War II, and in 1945 became the organizer and commander of the Ukrainian National Army fighting alongside the Third...
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Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University
2019-06-01
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The article is devoted to the biography of General Pavlo Shandruk, an Ukrainian officer who served as a Polish contract officer in the interwar period and at the beginning of the World War II, and in 1945 became the organizer and commander of the Ukrainian National Army fighting alongside the Third Reich in the last months of the war. The author focuses on the symbolic event of 1961, which was the decoration of General Shandruk with the highest Polish (émigré) military decoration – the Virtuti Militari order, for his heroic military service in 1939. By describing the controversy and emotions among Poles and Ukrainians, which accompanied the award of the former Hitler's soldier, the author tries to answer the question of how the General Shandruk’s activities should be assessed in the perspective of the uneasy Twentieth-Century Polish-Ukrainian relations.
Keywords: Pavlo Shandruk, Władysław Anders, Virtuti Militari, Ukrainian National Army, Ukrainian National Committee, contract officer.
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| spelling | doaj.art-c4f5c89115524a929af077bfe078e87e2022-12-22T02:51:59ZdeuYuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National UniversityІсторико-політичні проблеми сучасного світу2519-45182617-23722019-06-013910.31861/mhpi2019.39.50-57A war hero or a Hitler soldier?Pavel Gotovetsky0The University of Business and Entrepreneurship in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski The article is devoted to the biography of General Pavlo Shandruk, an Ukrainian officer who served as a Polish contract officer in the interwar period and at the beginning of the World War II, and in 1945 became the organizer and commander of the Ukrainian National Army fighting alongside the Third Reich in the last months of the war. The author focuses on the symbolic event of 1961, which was the decoration of General Shandruk with the highest Polish (émigré) military decoration – the Virtuti Militari order, for his heroic military service in 1939. By describing the controversy and emotions among Poles and Ukrainians, which accompanied the award of the former Hitler's soldier, the author tries to answer the question of how the General Shandruk’s activities should be assessed in the perspective of the uneasy Twentieth-Century Polish-Ukrainian relations. Keywords: Pavlo Shandruk, Władysław Anders, Virtuti Militari, Ukrainian National Army, Ukrainian National Committee, contract officer. https://mhpi.chnu.edu.ua/index.php/issues/article/view/158Pavlo ShandrukWładysław AndersVirtuti MilitariUkrainian National ArmyUkrainian National Committeecontract officer |
| spellingShingle | Pavel Gotovetsky A war hero or a Hitler soldier? Історико-політичні проблеми сучасного світу Pavlo Shandruk Władysław Anders Virtuti Militari Ukrainian National Army Ukrainian National Committee contract officer |
| title | A war hero or a Hitler soldier? |
| title_full | A war hero or a Hitler soldier? |
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| title_short | A war hero or a Hitler soldier? |
| title_sort | war hero or a hitler soldier |
| topic | Pavlo Shandruk Władysław Anders Virtuti Militari Ukrainian National Army Ukrainian National Committee contract officer |
| url | https://mhpi.chnu.edu.ua/index.php/issues/article/view/158 |
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