STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1261, sig. 109-4/1015

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-5 -A the top functionaries Senyk and S c i b o r s k y j meuchlings were eliminated. Jm Jnteresse of the maintenance of security in the rear operation area as well as the pacification of the Ukrainian population had to be met on 1 2.9.4l drastic measures against the Bendera group. Bandera and social functionaries were taken into protective custody because of the suspicion of the co-killers of the murder of the lelnyk supporters. Gleici. at the time all the confessed offices of the Bandera Group were closed after a thorough search. In the meantime, extensive material has been confiscated by the security police and the SD in Ukraine and in the General Government, which shows that the Bandera-Anhngers had been provided with extensive envy in the event of a outbreak of war. It was found that the Ban dera group was able to follow armed march groups behind the previous German Wehrmacht, which had the task of creating printing houses, schools, etc. for the OUN and to start immediately with the propagandist support of the Einheinian population. It was noted that the Scndera followers employed in the Wehracht as interpreters sent copies of their reports prepared for 'ehrmachtstellen' to their organization. In the course of the investigation, points of interest arose for Bandera supporters to play into the hands of NKwD Melnyk supporters at the time of the Bolsheviks and later to the German Yehrmacht had handed over melnyk people as Soviet parachute jumpers. By interrogating various permanent partisan girls, it was possible to learn that the NK.D was interested in connecting.