Liberated Odessa. Residents remove signs of shops and institutions left by the occupiers. 1944 MOSCOW, August 9The FSB of Russia published new archival documents telling how Hitler's intelligence used Ukrainian nationalists in preparing the Third Reich for an attack on the USSR. The leaders of German military intelligence, captured at the end of the Great Patriotic War, as well as after it, during the investigation in the USSR among other things, they gave detailed testimonies about the participation of Ukrainian nationalists in the preparation of an attack on the Soviet Union and their cooperation with the Nazis. This information was attached to the materials of the Nuremberg Tribunal. Among the documents now published on the FSB website is a photocopy of the protocol of interrogation of a member of the «Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists» * (OUN *) Alexander Pashkevich by employees of the Soviet military counterintelligence SMERSH on May 15, 1945. As follows from the words of Pashkevich, he was not an ordinary «veteran» of the Ukrainian nationalist movement: back in 1928 he joined the «Ukrainian military organization», on the basis of which the OUN* arose the following year, and headed the OUN* counterintelligence department in Lvov, which was then part of Poland. In 1934, the entire Lviv center of the OUN *, including Pashkevich, was arrested by the Poles after the murder of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Poland Peratsky by Bandera. However, in 1936 Pashkevich was released under an amnesty. In the autumn of 1939, after Western Ukraine became part of the USSR, he, fearing persecution by the Soviet authorities for participating in the OUN *, left for Krakow, which was located on Polish territory occupied by Germany. There Pashkevich began to cooperate with the Nazi military intelligence Abwehr.Ukrainian nationalists in the 1930s called for cooperation with Hitler «The first time I established contact with German intelligence in November 1939 through my former comrade Yevgeny Vereten. Vereten came to my apartment and said that the OUN* should help the Germans, since the latter can organize an independent Ukraine. I agreed with him, after which a few days later he took me to a German who later turned out to be the head of the Abwehrgroup and had the pseudonym «Doctor Mayevsky,» Pashkevich said during interrogation. According to him, at this meeting, «Maevsky «I suggested that he fill out a questionnaire with two photographs attached.» After that, until the end of the month I visited Mayevsky at his office, about two or three times a week, where I was engaged in typewriter reports of official employees of the Abwehrgroup about the Polish bodies of the POV and PPS. Later, in July 1940, together with other agents, I was given the task of monitoring the apartment of one lawyer, I don’t remember his last name, in whose apartment the meetings of the Polish underground organization allegedly took place, ”said Pashkevich. In October 1940, he left to study to Berlin, and his contacts with «Doctor Mayevsky» were interrupted, only to be resumed in 1941, just before the German attack on the USSR.Previously unknown documents about Ukrainian nationalism were published «In June 1941 in Berlin, where at that time I was studying at the Higher Technical School, I met with a member of the OUN * center — Gabrusevich. At the same time, he told me that Germany had allegedly presented an ultimatum to the Soviet government about placing Ukrainian industry at the disposal of Germany. In case of refusal, which was obvious, Germany will start a war with the Soviet Union. In this regard, we must provide assistance to Germany, and I, as a member of the OUN *, must go to Krakow to receive appropriate instructions from the center I agreed with this proposal of Gabrusevich and immediately left for Krakow,” Pashkevich testified. On June 19, 1941, Mayevsky met him in Krakow. Then Pashkevich, together with subordinates of «Mayevsky» by the name of Gladky and Vechorek, drove to the Soviet-German border. «On the second day after that, we went to the border, where I learned that Vechorek was the head of the Abwehrgroup, which had the task of capturing secret documents of the NKVD and the police on the way of the movement of German troops. Thus, we reached Kramatorsk, where the Abwehrgroup stopped and started organizing counterintelligence. I was in Kramatorsk, in the Abwehrgroup until the end of December 1941,» the interrogated said. * An extremist organization banned in Russia.
The Ministry of Defense spoke about the crimes of the Ukrainian Nazis during the war years
