>>64147987
You rang?
>>64150013
>only a meager handful engage in bare-minimum collaboration with you while actually pursuing their own agendas
>even these turn against you when they get the chance
Funnily enough, when Volodymyr Kubijovyč agreed to help put together the Galicia Division, he made a list of demands. Including that the division
>get its own chaplains
>have NCO and officer billets open to Ukrainians (foreign Waffen-SS men usually had to serve exclusively as enlisted men and were prohibited from becoming officers, specifically to keep them from being able to exercise authority over a German)
>not be deployed against the Western Allies or in "internal security" operations against partisans
>receive the same pay and benefits at regular German soldiers
>not be required to swear an oath of loyalty to Hitler as Führer of the German Reich (required of all Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS members, and there were multiple instances of men being executed for refusing to take it), but as "Commander-in-Chief of the German Armed Forces in the struggle against Bolshevism."
and the Germans basically had to to agree to all of them. So even when they were Nazi collaborators, the Ukrainians had a bit of an independence streak to them.
