>I didn't know that about the Ukrainian division, >interesting. Now that I'm home (I posted the former message from work) I was able to look at my references. Some of my figures were off: 100,000 volunteers turned out for the division in April 1943; some 30,000 were found fit for service. After training it was returned to its area of recruitment (now as the 14. SS-Freiwilligen-Division "Galizien") and was decimated in the Brody-Tarnow pocket, desperately trying to stem the Soviet advance. Having lost some 11,000 troops, they ceased to be a functioning combat unit and never fought again.
Source: Stein, George H. _Hitler's Elite Guard at War: The Waffen-SS, 1939-1945. Damon. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
