Archive/File: places/ukraine/sheptytsky-to-hitler.4108 Last-Modified: 1998/07/16 "The following letter was written by the Metropolitan (Archbishop) of the Greek Catholic Church of the Ukraine, Andrey Sheptytsky, to Adolf Hitler. The occasion was the fall of the city of Kiev to German troops in August 1941: His Excellency the Fuehrer of the Great German Empire, Adolf Hitler, Reichschancellory, Berlin Your Excellency, As head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, I send your Excellency my warmest congratulations as regards the occupation of the capital of the Ukraine, the golden domed city of Dnieper - Kiev. In your person, we see the invincible leader of the incomparable and glorious German Army. The aim of destroying and rooting out Bolshevism which you, as Fuehrer of the Great German Reich, have made the target of this campaign, wins your Excellency the gratitude of all the Christian world. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church knows the historic meaning of the tremendous progress of the German nations under your guidance. I will pray to God to put his blessing upon the victory which shall be the guarantee of enduring peace for Your Excellency, the German Army and the German nation. Very respectfully yours, Count Andrey Sheptytsky, Metropolitan* * The Archives of the History of the Party at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, fund 57, inventory 4, file 338, pp. 131-132." (Sabrin, 50) Work Cited Sabrin, B.F., Ed. Alliance for Murder: The Nazi-Ukrainian Nationalist Partnership in Genocide. New York: Sarpedon, 1991
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