Ukrainian National Committee

Ukrainian National Committee (Ukrainian: Український Національний Комітет) was a Ukrainian political structure created under the leadership of Pavlo Shandruk,[1] on March 17 (or March 12), 1945 in Weimar, Nazi Germany,[2] nearly two months before the German Instrument of Surrender,[3] with the intention to release Ukrainian Nazi-sponsored military units (such as the Ukrainian SS division)[1] from the German command. After a series of negotiations, the authorities of the Third Reich officially acknowledged their recognition of the Committee as the sole and independent representation of Ukrainian nation, with the extraterritorial rights and the right to command the Ukrainian National Army under Ukrainian flag and national symbols.

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  1. Rolf-Dieter Müller (2014). The Unknown Eastern Front: The Wehrmacht and Hitler's Foreign Soldiers. I.B.Tauris. p. 211. ISBN 978-1-78076-890-8. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
  2. Jonathan D. Smele (2015). Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 1012. ISBN 978-1-4422-5281-3. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
  3. Bernhard R. Kroener; Rolf-Dieter Muller; Hans Umbreit (2003). Germany and the Second World War. Volume 5: Organization and Mobilization of the German Sphere of Power, Part 2: Wartime Administration, Economy, and Manpower Resources 1939-1941. Clarendon Press. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-19-820873-0. Retrieved 12 October 2015.

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