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neither you nor anyone else has ever even specified any crime of which the Galicia

Division as a whole, or any member of the Galicia Division, might have been guilty

given all this, I wonder if the time has not finally come when you have to admit that

your obsession with the Galicia Division has been misplaced?

And would you happen to know if the Waffen SS divisions of The Netherlands,

Belgium, and France have proven to be as free from blame as has the Ukrainian Galicia

Division?

Sincerely yours,

Lubomyr Prytulak

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Wiesenthal Letter 19 Sep 12/97 Testimony of Erwin Schulz

September 12, 1997

Simon Wiesenthal

Jewish Documentation Center

Salztorgasse 6

1010 Vienna

Austria

Dear Mr. Wiesenthal:

In my letters to you of September 8 and 9, 1997, I have questioned your assertion

made on the 60 Minutes broadcast The Ugly Face of Freedom of October 23, 1994 to the

effect that in the few days before the arrival of the Germans, Ukrainians killed some 5

to 6 thousand Jews in Lviv. I have recently come across some testimony that indicates

that your assertion is correct on all of the details of this event save one.

The fresh testimony that I am referring to is that of Erwin Schulz, Commander of

Einsatzkommando 5 (a subunit of Einsatzgruppe C), from May until 26 September, 1941.

From Schulz's testimony, it appears that several of the details of your assertion are

correct: namely that the number murdered was 5,000, which is within the bounds of your

own estimate; that the location was indeed Lviv (identified as Lemberg); that the time

was indeed during the few days prior to the arrival of the Germans; and that the chief

participants were indeed Ukrainians and Jews, although Schulz does mention the

secondary involvement of others.

The point on which Schulz differs from you is that whereas you say that the

slaughter consisted of Ukrainians killing Jews, Schulz says that it consisted of Jews

killing Ukrainians:

We learned that, before the Russian troops had left, a very great

number of Lemberg citizens, Ukrainians and Polish inhabitants of other

towns and villages had been killed in this prison and in other

prisons. Furthermore, there were many corpses of German men and

officers, among them many Air Corps officers, and many of them were

found mutilated. There was a great bitterness and excitement among the

Lemberg population against the Jewish sector of the population. (Erwin

Schulz, in John Mendelsohn, editor, The Holocaust: Selected Documents

in Eighteen Volumes, Garland, New York, 1982, Volume 18, p. 18)

On the next day, Dr. RASCH informed us to the effect that the killed

people in Lemberg amounted to about 5,000. It has been determined

without any doubt that the arrests and killings had taken place under

the leadership of Jewish functionaries and with the participation of

the Jewish inhabitants of Lemberg. That was the reason why there was

such an excitement against the Jewish population on the part of the

Lemberg citizens. (Erwin Schulz, in John Mendelsohn, editor, The

Holocaust: Selected Documents in Eighteen Volumes, Garland, New York,

1982, Volume 18, p. 18)

I wonder if you would care to comment on this discrepancy between Schulz's

testimony and your own?

Sincerely yours,

Lubomyr Prytulak

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Wiesenthal Letter 20 Sep 13/97 Jews killing Ukrainians in Lviv

September 13, 1997

Simon Wiesenthal

Jewish Documentation Center

Salztorgasse 6

1010 Vienna

Austria

Dear Mr. Wiesenthal:

In my letter to you of September 12, I presented the testimony of Erwin Schulz to

the effect that in the few days prior to the arrival of German forces in Lviv in 1941,

some 5,000 inhabitants of the Lviv region, predominantly Ukrainians and Poles, had been

killed, and that the killing had been conducted "under the leadership of Jewish

functionaries and with the participation of the Jewish inhabitants of Lemberg."

The continuing question before us can be broken down into two parts: (1) Were

such large numbers of Ukrainians and Poles killed? (2) What ethnic groups were most

responsible for the killing?

On the first question, there does not appear to be much doubt - every one of the

half-dozen sources that I consulted agree that the slaughter did take place. In fact,

in the last quotation of the following set of six, you yourself, Mr. Wiesenthal, can be

seen to agree:

Before fleeing the German advance the Soviet occupational regime

murdered thousands of Ukrainian civilians, mainly members of the city's

[Lviv's] intelligentsia. (Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Volume 3, p. 222)

The Bolsheviks succeeded in annihilating some 10,000 political

prisoners in Western Ukraine before and after the outbreak of

hostilities (massacres took place in the prisons in Lviv, Zolochiv,

Rivne, Dubno, Lutsk, etc.). (Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopaedia, Volume

1, p. 886)

The Soviets' hurried retreat had tragic consequences for thousands of

political prisoners in the jails of Western Ukraine. Unable to