Battle of Lwów (1941)

For other battles fought for the city of Lwów, see Battle of Lwów (disambiguation).

The Battle of Lwów was a World War II battle for the control over the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) between the Red Army and the invading Wehrmacht and the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists.

Battle of Lwów
Part of Operation Barbarossa on the Eastern Front of World War II
Date 22–30 June 1941 Location Lwów, Soviet-occupied Poland 49°50′33″N 24°01′56″E Result German–OUN victory Subsequent pogroms Massacre of Lwów professors
Belligerents
Germany Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists	Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel Yaroslav Stetsko	Ivan Muzychenko [ru] Nikolai Dyatlov [ru]
Strength
17th Army OUN marching groups [pl]	6th Combined Arms Army

History

Protection of the city’s infrastructure was carried out by the 223rd regiment from the 13th division of the NKVD escort troops. On 24 June the 1st company of the regiment prevented the mass escape from Lvov Prison No. 1. Also, the soldiers of the regiment defended the city from the actions of looters, OUN members and Nazi saboteurs. From 29 to 30 June 1941 the regiment’s battalion covered the withdrawal of units of the 6th army from Lviv and then departed along the route Sykhov [be]-Bóbrka-Rohatyn-Kozova-Tarnopol under the direct influence of the Luftwaffe.

Immediately after the departure of the Red Army, NKVD troops and border guards, the massacre of Lviv professors^[1] and Lviv pogrom^[2] was organized, and then the ghetto and concentration camps began to form under the leadership of the German administration by the Ukrainian auxiliary police, formed from the OUN marching groups.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]}

The city was liberated from the Nazis three years later, in the summer of 1944, during the Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive.^[15]

See also

• Lwów Ghetto

References

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3. The Lviv pogrom of 1941 By John Paul Himka. Kyiv Post September 23, 2010.
4. Yad Vashem (2005). "June 30: Germany occupies Lvov; 4,000 Jews killed by July 3". Archived from the original on 2005-03-11.
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7. І.К. Патриляк. Військова діяльність ОУН(Б) у 1940—1942 роках. — Університет імені Шевченко \Ін-т історії України НАН України Київ, 2004 I. K. Patrylyak. (2004). Military activities of the OUN (B) in the years 1940-1942. Kiev, Ukraine: Shevchenko University \ Institute of History of Ukraine National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. pg. 324.
8. Philip Friedman. Ukrainian-Jewish Relations During the Nazi Occupation. In Roads to Extinction: Essays on the Holocaust. (1980) New York: Conference of Jewish Social Studies. pg. 181
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10. Institute of Ukrainian History, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, Chapter 2 Archived March 25, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, pp.62-63
11. Timothy Snyder. (2004) The Reconstruction of Nations. New Haven: Yale University Press: pg. 162
12. Timothy Snyder. (2008). "The life and death of Volhynian Jewry, 1921-1945." In Brandon, Lowler (Eds.) The Shoah in Ukraine: history, testimony, memorialization. Indiana: Indiana University Press, pg. 95
13. Divide and Conquer: the KGB Disinformation Campaign Against Ukrainians and Jews Archived 2009-06-20 at the Wayback Machine. Ukrainian Quarterly [uk], Fall 2004. By Herbert Romerstein
14. Friedman, Philip (1980). "Ukrainian-Jewish Relations During the Nazi Occupation". In Ada June Friedman (ed.). Roads to Extinction: Essays on the Holocaust. New York: Conference of Jewish Social Studies (YIVO). pp. 203. ISBN 0827601700.
15. Jerzy Węgierski (1989), W lwowskiej Armii Krajowej PAX, Warszawa; ISBN 83-211-1044-4 via Google Books.

External links

• Germans capture Lvov—and slaughter ensues
• The initial period of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 (in Russian)