SS Division Galicia

GPTKB entity

Statements (49)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:military_unit
gptkbp:activeYears 1943-1945
gptkbp:allegation gptkb:Chodaczków_Wielki_massacre
gptkb:Huta_Pieniacka_massacre
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:14th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_(1st_Galician)
gptkbp:branch gptkb:Waffen-SS
gptkbp:country gptkb:Nazi_Germany
gptkbp:disbanded 1945
May 1945
gptkbp:engagedIn anti-partisan operations
combat against Soviet Red Army
gptkbp:formedBy gptkb:Ukrainian_volunteers
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label SS Division Galicia
gptkbp:initiallyFormed April 1943
gptkbp:insignia Galician lion with three crowns
gptkbp:languageOfName gptkb:German
Ukrainian
gptkbp:notableBattle gptkb:Battle_of_Brody_(1944)
gptkbp:notableCommander gptkb:Fritz_Freitag
gptkb:Pavlo_Shandruk
gptkbp:notableEvent encirclement and destruction at Brody pocket
gptkbp:notableFor controversial legacy
Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany
gptkbp:notableMember gptkb:Alfred_Bisanz
gptkb:Fritz_Freitag
gptkb:Hans-Albin_Freiherr_von_Reitzenstein
gptkb:Hans_Kieffer
gptkb:Hans_Siegel
gptkb:Vasyl_Melnyk
gptkb:Wilhelm_Freiher_von_Hübner
gptkb:Wolf-Dietrich_Heike
gptkb:Yevhen_Pobihushchyi
gptkb:Volodymyr_Kubiyovych
gptkb:Mykola_Lebed
gptkb:Pavlo_Shandruk
gptkbp:number gptkb:14th_Division
gptkbp:parentOrganization gptkb:Schutzstaffel_(SS)
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:Waffen-SS
gptkbp:postwarUse some members resettled in UK and Canada
gptkbp:recruitedFrom gptkb:Galicia_region
gptkbp:reorganizedAs gptkb:1st_Ukrainian_Division_of_the_Ukrainian_National_Army
gptkbp:size gptkb:division
gptkbp:survived reformed as Ukrainian National Army
gptkbp:symbol gptkb:Galician_lion
gptkbp:theaterOfOperations gptkb:Eastern_Front
gptkbp:type gptkb:infantry
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Waffen-SS
gptkb:Karl_von_Oberkamp
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5