Stalin's Nemesis

by Michael James Melnyk

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  1: Resurrection

  1Ferkuniak writes in his memoirs that the report which was prepared by SS-Sturmbannführer Karl Zoglauer was read out at an officers meeting on 2 August and contained proposals to disband the Galician Division and distribute its remaining personnel among German Divisions and as manual workers. Ferkuniak, Spomyny …, op cit.; p. 30.