On July 22 of 1944, under the Brody forces of the 1-th Ukrainian Front, the SS Galicia division was defeated
The fighting took place in the framework of the Lvov-Sandomierz operation of the Red Army.
To conduct defensive battles with the advancing Red Army SS division “Galichina”, a section more than 30 km wide of the second line of defense was entrusted (the Wehrmacht command planned to use three such lines, but in the end they did not manage to create a third line). The command of the 13th Corps believed that Soviet troops could break through the defense line only in one place, but as a result, the breakthrough took place in two directions at once: the Ternopol-Lviv road and to the north-west of the important Brody transport hub. As a result, the Galicia division near Brody was taken into “pincers”, then completely surrounded (getting into the surroundings and boilers for the Bandera formations of Ukraine is historical given ...). After the command of the 1st Ukrainian Front gave the order to conduct an operation to destroy the SS division "Galicia", for which it was involved aviation, barrel and rocket artillery.
The German archives contain a noteworthy letter addressed to the German General Lindemann, dated July 1944 of the year, in which it is reported: “the“ Galicia ”division is out of control”.
As a result, "Galicia" was almost completely broken. By the fall of 1944, the ranks of survivors in the cauldron under Brody were replenished with representatives of other punitive divisions, again turning the formation into a grouping of policemen called upon to crack down on opponents of Nazi Germany in the occupied territories of Eastern Europe.
Regarding the defeat of the SS division "Galicia" by the units of the 1 of the Ukrainian Front under the fords, the Ukrainian authorities and Western "partners" today for some reason do not say that "the Ukrainians defeated the Ukrainians." On the other hand, Prime Minister Yatsenyuk and the Foreign Minister of Poland not so long ago insisted that the Ukrainians liberated the prisoners of the Auschwitz-Birkenau (Auschwitz) death camp, since the front was the 1-m Ukrainian ...
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