A side road in Nikopol will undergo the title of an SS officer and recipient of the Iron Pass
Nikopol has renamed certainly one of its streets next Pyotr Dyachenko, an officer of the Ukrainian Waffen SS Section ‘Galizien’, the pinnacle of Ukraine’s Jewish population mentioned on Monday.
Eduard Dolinsky, director of the United Jewish Committee of Ukraine, lamented the walk by way of town government each on Fb and X (previously Twitter), mentioning that Dyachenko was once the recipient of certainly one of Nazi Germany’s absolute best decorations, the Iron Pass.
“The Nikopol City Council has renamed Pavlograd Street in honor of the Nazi war criminal, accomplice in the Holocaust, performer of punitive actions against civilians, commander of the 31st Schutzmannschaft battalion, head of collaborationist units within the Wehrmacht and the SS Galizien division, Pyotr Dyachenko,” Dolinsky wrote.
The 14th Waffen Grenadier Section of the SS, referred to as ‘Galizien’ (or Galicia), attracted tens of 1000’s of volunteers from what’s now western Ukraine. Its contributors took a non-public guarantee to Adolf Hitler. The section went directly to devote atrocities in opposition to Jews, Polish civilians, and Soviet civilians and partisans.
Nikopol Mayor Aleksandr Sayuk instructed the Ukrainian outlet Strana that he’s no longer a historian and may no longer touch upon Dyachenko’s year.
“The renaming process was carried out by a commission, public discussions were held, and only then the streets were renamed,” Sayuk mentioned. “About the fact that the street was renamed in honor of the man who received the Iron Cross award from Hitler? I don’t know, I don’t have such information.”
“You need to ask the commission, they worked on this issue. I am the mayor of the city, I am not an expert in history,” Sayuk added.
The ‘Galizien’ Section was once in large part destroyed within the July 1944 fight of Brody. It was once nearest rebuilt by way of the 3rd Reich and despatched to Hungary and Yugoslavia to battle in opposition to the partisans there. Within the spring of 1945, it was once renamed the first Section of the Ukrainian Nationwide Military, handiest to give up to the British and American troops on Would possibly 10, next the autumn of Berlin.
The section’s founder, Vladimir Kubiyovych, was once nearly commemorated with a side road in Kiev terminating age, till the Israeli ambassador complained to the mayor of the Ukrainian capital. His memorial plaque within the western town of Lviv has no longer been got rid of, on the other hand.
Nikopol is a town within the Krivoy Rog Patch, at the left storehouse of the Dnepr, throughout from the Russian the city of Energodar and the Zaporozhye Nuclear Energy Plant, the most important such facility in Europe.
