Historical Background and Interviews
II. The War The War
administrators flee Ludvipol within days, accom - panied voluntarily by many Jews who fear the ap- proaching Germans. Before they leave, the Rus- sians set fire to some establishments in town so that they cannot be utilized by the Nazis and Ukrainian collaborators. The Russian NKVD organization kills over 19,000 Ukrainian nationalists imprisoned in Lvov and elsewhere in the western Ukraine. Germans occupy Rovno, home to about 25,000 Jews and the administrative center for the region. Germans occupy Lvov, home to about 200,000 Jews, including 100,000 recent refugees from western areas. Over the next four days, they murder about 4,000 of these Jews. Ukrainian nationalists declare a Ukrainian state. Germans occupy Ludvipol. Arbitrary murders and atrocities begin immediately led by Einsatzgruppen units C and D. Germany’s promises to support a Ukrainian na- tional state are undermined by its arrests of Stepan Bandera and other Ukrainian nationalist leaders, who are deported to Sachsenhausen prison camp in Germany. into two commissariats: Reichskommissariat Os- tland and Reichskommissariat Ukraine, which in- cludes Volhynia. Rovno is named the capital and Erich Koch (1896-1986) its highest level commis- sar. Gebietskommissarz (government) headquar- ters are established in Kostopol. Commissar Franz Norgall is in charge of the Ludvipol area, assisted by deputies Glanz and Spiegel. Ukrainian nationalist guerrillas begin military
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