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Ukrainische Liturgische Lieder für Ukrainische Soldaten; Zbirny ok vsenarodnych ukraïns kych liturhy nych pisen dlja ukraïns kych junakiv i vojakiv Ukrainian Liturgical Songs for Ukrainian Soldiers ; A Small Collection of All-National Ukrainian Liturgical Songs for Ukrainian Youth and Soldiers
19457229Berlin & Wien Vienna: Verlag: Griech.-kath. Oberkriegspfarrer bei Befehlshaber im Luftgau Kdo. Publisher: Greek-Catholic Senior Military Chaplain with the Commander in the Air District Command / Vydannja: Hr.-kat. vijs kova parafija pry Komandi povitrjanych syl Nimec koï Armiï Publisher: Greek-Catholic military parish at the Command of the air forces of the German Army // Imprimatur: Msgr. Dr. Peter Werhun Apostolischer Visitator und Administrator der Ukrainer in Großdeutschland January 27 1945. First Edition. Limited Edition of 945 copies this being No. 40 hand-numbered to imprimatur leaf. Card Covers. Octavo. 14 x 21 cm. pp. 11 1 Index printed to verso of rear wrapper. Publisher's single-stapled illustrated wrappers featuring a repeating decorative border and a vignette of a church and soldier. Eleven leaves of typeset Ukrainian-Catholic liturgical musical scores printed in the traditional order of use with lyrics in Ukrainian Cyrillic. Title printed in German and Ukrainian. Faint toning to margins of covers single unobtrusive institutional stamp to the lower margin of cover and limitation leaf otherwise contents without blemish; near fine. Exceptionally rare unrecorded in commerce. Nominally corresponds to OCLC #1414548304 which records only one institutional holding at time of cataloguing Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Not found in Fisher BL Houghton LAC/BAC University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections Peel et al. Not found in Buchynsky nor in Boshyk & Balan. Rare indeed. <br/><br/>¶ An exceptionally rare primary source document of the first order from the final months of the Second World War documenting the formal structured collaboration between Ukrainian volunteer units and the German Wehrmacht. Not merely a general religious pamphlet but an official military publication issued by the German Wehrmacht for its Ukrainian volunteers. The publisher as explicitly stated on the cover in both German and Ukrainian is the Griech.-kath. Oberkriegspfarrer Greek-Catholic Senior Military Chaplain attached to the command of the German Air Force / Luftwaffe Luftgau Kdo. This songbook was evidently printed for the express use of Ukrainian soldiers youth and auxiliaries embedded within the German military. During the war particularly following the invasion of the Soviet Union German forces recruited heavily from occupied territories. Many Ukrainian nationalists viewing the Germans as liberators from Stalin's regime joined volunteer units such as the 14th SS Division "Galicia" or various Wehrmacht battalions in the hope of securing Ukrainian independence. <br /> <br />This booklet is tangible proof of this wartime collaboration demonstrating that by 1945 these units were so formally integrated that the Wehrmacht provided for their spiritual needs with an official military chaplaincy. Its publication in Berlin on January 27 1945 - with Soviet forces rapidly closing in - underscores the German military's desperate effort to maintain the morale and fighting effectiveness of its foreign volunteers until the very end. <br /> <br />The official ecclesiastical approval Imprimatur is granted by Msgr. Dr. Peter Werhun Petro Verhun the ranking Ukrainian Catholic official in Greater Germany. His fate underscores the item's tragic context: a mere five months after approving this publication Werhun was arrested by the victorious Red Army charged with collaboration and deported to a Siberian Gulag where he died in 1957. <br /> <br />¶ Index of contents: 1. Glory Only-Begotten ; 2. Holy God ; 3. Alleluia ; 4. We Cherubim ; 5. As the King ; 6. Holy ; 7. We Sing to You ; 8. It Is Truly Right ; 9. Our Father ; 10. Let It Be Fulfilled ; 11. Blessed Be the Name of the Lord ; 12. God Hear Our Prayers ; 13. O Great God Almighty Creator . <br /> <br />¶ Provenance: The Ukrainian Cultural and Education Centre Oseredok Winnipeg. Verlag: Griech.-kath. Oberkriegspfarrer bei Befehlshaber im Luftgau Kdo. [Publisher: Greek-Catholic Senior Military Chaplain wit unknown
