Archive/File: places/ukraine/stetzko-to-hitler.4107 Last-Modified: 1998/07/16 "In an open address to Hitler, Yaroslav Stetsko, Head of the Nationalist Government of the Ukraine, said: July 4, 1941 To the Fuehrer and the Chancellor, Berlin 7/4/41, Lvov, Ukrainian Government, No.2/41. Your Excellence: It is with an overwhelming feeling of gratitude and admiration for your heroic army which has covered itself with new glory in battles with Europe's worst enemy -- Moscow Bolsheviks -- that we are hereby sending Your Excellence, on behalf of the Ukrainian people and its government which has been created in liberated Lvov, our heartfelt wishes for complete victory in your struggle. The triumph of the German arms, will enable you to extend your planned construction of new Europe also to her Eastern Part. You have thus also given an opportunity to the Ukrainian people as one of the full and free members of the family of European nations to take an active part in the implementation of this great plan in its sovereign Ukrainian state. On behalf of the Ukrainian government, Yaroslav Stetzko, Head (Seal of Ukrainian State)* * Captured Nazi War Document no. 145. Translated into English. Courtest Soviet State Archive, Ukraine SSR." (Sabrin, 51) Work Cited Sabrin, B.F., Ed. Alliance for Murder: The Nazi-Ukrainian Nationalist Partnership in Genocide. New York: Sarpedon, 1991
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