Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "स्टेपन बांदेरा" in Hindi language version.
Bandera and Stetsko were held initially in Berlin under house arrest. After January 1942 they were sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp but in comparatively comfortable confinement. ... a KGB assassin named Bogdan Stashinskiy murdered Bandera with a special gun that sprayed cyanide dust into the victim's face.
Berlin hoped to form a Ukrainian National Committee with both OUN factions and other Ukrainian leaders. The Committee was formed in November, but Bandera and Stetsko refused to cooperate. They escaped from Berlin in December and fled south, emerging after the war in Munich.
The OUN divided in 1940 into a radical wing under Bandera and a more conservative one under Melnyk ...
The proclamation issued by Stetsko on behalf of the Bandera faction of the OUN promised that the new Ukrainian state would faithfully 'cooperate with National Socialist Great Germany, which under the leadership of Adolf Hitler is establishing a New World Order in Europe and the world'. The proclamation's closing flourish called for: 'Glory to the heroic German army and its Führer, Adolf Hitler' ... In the confusion that accompanied the German invasion of Poland, Lebed and Bandera were released from prison in 1939 and allowed to continue their political work.
In January 2010, former president of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko officially 'rehabilitated' Stepan Bandera, head of one of the two factions of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the political sponsor of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. This act drew condemnation from Russia, Poland, and Jewish groups.
Deeply deplores the decision by the outgoing President of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, posthumously to award Stepan Bandera, a leader of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) which collaborated with Nazi Germany, the title of ‘National Hero of Ukraine', hopes, in this regard, that the new Ukrainian leadership will reconsider such decisions and will maintain its commitment to European values.
[p. 242] The OUN-B and UPA did not intend to kill all the Jews who were hiding in the forest immediately, but offered some of them 'protection'. The OUN-B registered these Jews, kept them in 'camps', and forced them to work for the OUN-B and UPA. The 'camps' were frequently farms or houses of murdered Poles. Most of such Jews were killed by the nationalists before the Red Army arrived in western Ukraine ... An unknown number of Jewish doctors, dentists, and nurses agreed or were forced to treat UPA insurgents. During their period with the UPA, they were usually frightened of the partisans and OUN-B activists and tried to escape. Like the Jews 'employed' by the OUN-UPA in collective farms or camps, the majority were killed shortly before the Red Army came to western Ukraine. ... [p. 243] Ukrainian sources speak of a considerable number of Jewish physicians, dentists, and hospital attendants who served in the ranks of the UPA. The question is: Why did only a small number of them remain alive? The Bandera groups also utilized other Jewish skilled workers. According to Lew Shankowsky, practically every UPA group had a Jewish physician or pharmacist, as well as Jewish tailors, shoemakers, barbers, and the like. Again the question arises: What happened to these hundreds of thousands of Jewish professionals and skilled workers? Betty Eisenstein states that in the spring of 1943 the Bandera groups began to imitate the German tactics of 'selection'. Only the skilled workers were left alive, and they were concentrated in special camps, where they worked at their trades or on the farms ... Eisenstein reports that at the approach of the Soviet army the Bandera groups liquidated the Jews of the camps. ... [p. 281] Bandera was protected and supported by the Gehlen Organization and also received help from members of such organizations as the former Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend), the SS, and other individuals and organizations in situations similar to that of Bandera. The CIC noted that an underground organization of former Nazis helped Bandera to cross the border between the American and French occupation zones several times. ... [p. 199] To welcome the Germans and signalize support for the new Ukrainian state, the OUN-B instructed local Ukrainians to erect triumphal arches. ... [p. 447] and how the OUN-B was involved in pogroms.
As an uncompromising leader of the militant, terrorist branch of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). ... To this day, many Ukrainians view Bandera as a martyred freedom fighter.
... took Bandera into captivity on July 5, 1941. He was transported to Berlin, where he stayed under house arrest until September 15, 1941. He was subsequently arrested and kept in a Berlin prison as an honorary prisoner (Ehrenhäftling) until October 1943. From October 1943 to October 1944 Bandera stayed in Zellenbau,a part of the concentration camp Sachsenhausen for political prisoners. After Bandera was released he was once more allowed to collaborate.
... took Bandera into captivity on July 5, 1941. He was transported to Berlin, where he stayed under house arrest until September 15, 1941. He was subsequently arrested and kept in a Berlin prison as an honorary prisoner (Ehrenhäftling) until October 1943. From October 1943 to October 1944 Bandera stayed in Zellenbau,a part of the concentration camp Sachsenhausen for political prisoners. After Bandera was released he was once more allowed to collaborate.
World Jewish Congress troubled by honoring of Nazi collaborator in Ukraine
