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— George Orwell, 1946

Mod­ern Times: Cel­e­bra­tion of the 75th Anniver­sary of the 14th Waf­fen SS Divi­sion in Lviv, Ukraine in sum­mer of 2018. THIS is the her­itage of the OUN/B and the UPA.

COMMENT: With the Biden admin­is­tra­tion’s propaganda–amplified by MSM–having pro­pelled Amer­i­can polit­i­cal aware­ness into a state of hys­te­ria vis a vis Ukraine and Rus­sia, we review some of our detailed, exhaus­tive infor­ma­tion about the OUN/B, its Nazi-aligned his­to­ry, as well as its inex­tri­ca­ble links to CIA/Gehlen and the GOP.

In a pre­vi­ous post, we set forth excerpts from The Bor­mann Broth­er­hood doc­u­ment­ing the Third Reich gen­e­sis of the terms “Iron Cur­tain” and “Bet­ter Dead Than Red”–the lat­ter the pro­pa­gan­da bat­tle cry of Ger­many’s Radio Were­wolf. 

We dis­cussed the ori­gin of both terms, and the mate­r­i­al high­light­ed below in AFA#1.

In this post, we review infor­ma­tion about the par­tic­i­pa­tion of the UPA–the OUN/B’s mil­i­tary wing–in gueril­la war­fare con­duct­ed dur­ing the clos­ing stages of, and in the after­math of, the Sec­ond World War.

As Allied armies drove into Ger­many from both East and West, the Third Reich set up gueril­la groups, many drawn from the Hitler Youth, under the Wer­wolf pro­gram designed by Nazi spy chief Rein­hard Gehlen.

“. . . . Gehlen pro­vid­ed [SS Ober­grup­pen­fuhrer Hans] Prutz­mann with a detailed blue-print for the orga­ni­za­tion of the Were­wolves . . . . Prutz­mann and his sub-com­man­ders resort­ed to enlist­ing mem­bers of the rapid­ly dis­solv­ing Vlassov Army and the Ukrain­ian UPA . . . . Gehlen had pro­duced the orig­i­nal scheme for Were­wolf . . . .”

Gehlen envis­aged the Were­wolves as of pri­ma­ry util­i­ty against the Sovi­et Union:

” . . . .With his R‑Net [“Radio Net­work”], which he was deter­mined to main­tain behind the Sovi­et lines, these Wer­wolf under­tak­ings could have become extreme­ly use­ful. Gehlen obtained from SS Ober­grup­pen­fuhrer Prutz­mann and his staff detailed infor­ma­tion about the deploy­ment of their Wer­wolf groups in the East. He was to make some use of this in lat­er years. . . .”

The pro­pa­gan­da slo­gan of the Were­wolves mint­ed a Cold-War code­word.

” . . . .It was the sym­bol­ism, as always, that count­ed. Radio Were­wolf ham­mered the theme ‘Rather dead than Red’ (a phrase that lived long after). . . .”

UPA com­bat­ants were among the groups that con­duct­ed a gueril­la war­fare pro­gram in parts of the Sovi­et Union and Poland:

“. . . . In south-west Ukraine and east­ern Poland bands of the nation­al­ist UPA many still with their Ger­man SS offi­cers, harassed the Sovi­et Army, the Pol­ish mili­tia of the com­mu­nist-dom­i­nat­ed War­saw gov­ern­ment and the local author­i­ties set up in the lib­er­at­ed ter­ri­to­ries. . . . Trained in gueril­la war­fare by the Ger­mans, they ambushed Sovi­et road con­voys, used hit-and-run tac­tics, and car­ried out innu­mer­able sab­o­tage actions. Indeed, some of the Ukrain­ian insur­gents held out in the forests of the Carpathi­an moun­tains until 1952. . . .”

As will be reviewed in our next post, these UPA groups were sup­port­ed by the fledg­ling CIA and the Office of Pol­i­cy Coor­di­na­tion, in effect pro­vid­ing a change-of-uni­forms from the Third Reich to the U.S.

UPDATE: Otto Sko­rzeny was involved with train­ing a com­po­nent of the French Were­wolf oper­a­tion, which was a vehi­cle for col­lab­o­ra­tion between Jean Paul Robert Fil­li­ol and Otto Sko­rzeny. It appears that the OAS grew direct­ly from the French Were­wolf con­tin­gent. There is detailed dis­cus­sion of the French fascist/SS links to both the JFK assas­si­na­tion and Otto Sko­rzeny in FTR#1222.

”  . . . . Sko­rzeny, who for a brief peri­od in 1943 had been in charge of a “spe­cial com­man­do” guard­ing Mar­shal Petain and Laval, set up a train­ing cen­ter for French sabo­teurs at Frieden­thal, whilst Dar­nand with SS Haupt­sturm­fuhrer Deter­d­ing bus­ied him­self at Sig­marin­gen with the orga­ni­za­tion of the ‘white maquis’ against Gen­er­al de Gaulle. . . .”

Note that Gehlen’s sup­port for the OAS (FTR#‘s 1222 & 1223) con­sti­tutes a con­tin­u­a­tion of an enti­ty and rela­tion­ship that dates to the clos­ing phase of the Sec­ond World War!! 

1. Gehlen: Spy of the Cen­tu­ry by E.H. Cookridge; Ran­dom House [HC]; Euro­pean Copy­right Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed; ISBN 0–394-47313–2; pp. 98, 99, 101.

. . . . Gehlen pro­vid­ed [SS Ober­grup­pen­fuhrer Hans] Prutz­mann with a detailed blue-print for the orga­ni­za­tion of the Were­wolves . . . .

. . . . Prutz­mann and his sub-com­man­ders resort­ed to enlist­ing mem­bers of the rapid­ly dis­solv­ing Vlassov Army and the Ukrain­ian UPA . . . .

. . . . Gehlen had pro­duced the orig­i­nal scheme for Were­wolf . . . . He had nev­er envis­aged the user of the Were­wolves for under­ground resis­tance against the West­ern Allies. But one fea­ture, and to his mind the only impor­tant one, of the Wer­wolf enter­prise attract­ed his seri­ous atten­tion. This was the attempt at set­ting up clan­des­tine cells, sab­o­tage groups and radio posts inside the ter­ri­to­ries in Poland, East Prus­sia, Pomera­nia and Sile­sia, from which the Ger­man Army was hur­ried­ly retreat­ing behind the Oder and Elbe.

With his R‑Net, which he was deter­mined to main­tain behind the Sovi­et lines, these Wer­wolf under­tak­ings could have become extreme­ly use­ful. Gehlen obtained from SS Ober­grup­pen­fuhrer Prutz­mann and his staff detailed infor­ma­tion about the deploy­ment of their Wer­wolf groups in the East. He was to make some use of this in lat­er years. . . .

2.   The Bor­mann Broth­er­hood by William Steven­son; Sky­horse Pub­lish­ing (SC); Copy­right 1973 by William Steven­son; ISBN 978–1‑5107–2916‑2; p. 131.

. . . . It was the sym­bol­ism, as always, that count­ed. Radio Were­wolf ham­mered the theme “Rather dead than Red” (a phrase that lived long after). Bol­she­vism was the real ene­my; the Nazis had always resist­ed the Bol­she­viks; there­fore any Ger­man who helped the ene­mies of Nazism was help­ing the Bol­she­viks and was a trai­tor. A cli­mate was being cre­at­ed that would favor the con­ceal­ment of want­ed men. . . .

3. Gehlen: Spy of the Cen­tu­ry by E.H. Cookridge; Ran­dom House [HC]; Euro­pean Copy­right Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed; ISBN 0–394-47313–2; pp. 146–147.

. . . . In south-west Ukraine and east­ern Poland bands of the nation­al­ist UPA many still with their Ger­man SS offi­cers, harassed the Sovi­et Army, the Pol­ish mili­tia of the com­mu­nist-dom­i­nat­ed War­saw gov­ern­ment and the local author­i­ties set up in the lib­er­at­ed ter­ri­to­ries. At var­i­ous times between Novem­ber 1945 and the spring of 1947 these “counter-rev­o­lu­tion­ary ban­dits” were in effec­tive con­trol of many vil­lages and rur­al dis­tricts. Trained in gueril­la war­fare by the Ger­mans, they ambushed Sovi­et road con­voys, used hit-and-run tac­tics, and car­ried out innu­mer­able sab­o­tage actions. Indeed, some of the Ukrain­ian insur­gents held out in the forests of the Carpathi­an moun­tains until 1952.

The Sovi­et author­i­ties also encoun­tered trou­ble in the for­mer Baltic states; after four years of Nazi occu­pa­tion many Ger­man sol­diers, par­tic­u­lar­ly of the Cur­land Army which had been cut off dur­ing the win­ter of 1944, had remained there.  Togeth­er with Lat­vian and Eston­ian patri­ots, they now turned upon the “red lib­er­a­tors”. . . .

. . . . For years, the com­mu­nists had kept silent about the extent of the fight­ing, which in many areas amount­ed to a minor civ­il war. . . .

4. Gehlen: Spy of the Cen­tu­ry by E.H. Cookridge; Ran­dom House [HC]; Euro­pean Copy­right Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed; ISBN 0–394-47313–2; p. 99.

. . . . After the lib­er­a­tion of France thou­sands of for­mer Vichy mili­tia-men of the trai­tor Joseph Dar­nand, mem­bers of Doriot’s French Waf­fen SS, ex-Cagoulards of Colonel Delon­cle and a mot­ley mob of French col­lab­o­ra­tors and quis­lings had fled across the Rhine in an attempt to escape the vengeance of the com­pa­tri­ots they had for four long years oppressed more cru­el­ly than the Gestapo. Many of them were recruit­ed into Were­wolf units which were to car­ry out sab­o­tage actions inside France and against the Allied Occu­pa­tion forces in west­ern Ger­many. But near­ly all of these French­men quick­ly desert­ed as soon as they received their pal­try boun­ty. Sko­rzeny, who for a brief peri­od in 1943 had been in charge of a “spe­cial com­man­do” guard­ing Mar­shal Petain and Laval, set up a train­ing cen­ter for French sabo­teurs at Frieden­thal, whilst Dar­nand with SS Haupt­sturm­fuhrer Deter­d­ing bus­ied him­self at Sig­marin­gen with the orga­ni­za­tion of the “white maquis” against Gen­er­al de Gaulle. . . .