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The [[Simon Wiesenthal|Simon Wiesenthal Center]] contends that between June 30 and July 3, 1941, in the days that the Battalion was in [[Lviv]] the Nachtigall soldiers together with the German army and the local Ukrainians participated in the killings of Jews in the city. The pretext for the [[pogrom]] was a rumor that the Jews were responsible for the execution of prisoners by the Soviets before the 1941 Soviet withdrawal from Lviv. The ''Encyclopedia of the Holocaust'' states that some 4,000 Jews were kidnapped and killed at that time.<ref>Gutman, Israel. "[http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/text/x16/xm1688.html Nachtigall Battalion]". ''Encyclopedia of the Holocaust''. Macmillan Publishing Company: New York, 1990.</ref> It further states that the unit was removed from Lviv on July 7 and sent to the Eastern Front.

The [[Simon Wiesenthal|Simon Wiesenthal Center]] contends that between June 30 and July 3, 1941, in the days that the Battalion was in [[Lviv]] the Nachtigall soldiers together with the German army and the local Ukrainians participated in the killings of Jews in the city. The pretext for the [[pogrom]] was a rumor that the Jews were responsible for the execution of prisoners by the Soviets before the 1941 Soviet withdrawal from Lviv. The ''Encyclopedia of the Holocaust'' states that some 4,000 Jews were kidnapped and killed at that time.<ref>Gutman, Israel. "[http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/text/x16/xm1688.html Nachtigall Battalion]". ''Encyclopedia of the Holocaust''. Macmillan Publishing Company: New York, 1990.</ref> It further states that the unit was removed from Lviv on July 7 and sent to the Eastern Front.

The [[Ukrainian Insurgent Army]] (UPA) arose out of separate militant formations of the OUN-Bandera faction (the OUNb).<ref>Vedeneyev, D. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20150307183958/http://warhistory.ukrlife.org/5_6_02_4.htm Military Field Gendarmerie – special body of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army]''. "Voyenna Istoriya" magazine. 2002.</ref> The political leadership belonged to the OUNb. It was the primary perpetrator of the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160401045104/http://www.volhyniamassacre.eu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/5199/The-July-1943-genocidal-operations-of-the-OUN-UPA-in-Volhynia.pdf The July 1943 genocidal operations of OUN-UPA in Volhynia], pp=2-3. [http://www.volhyniamassacre.eu/__data/assets/pdf]</ref>

The [[Ukrainian Insurgent Army]] (UPA) arose out of separate militant formations of the OUN-Bandera faction (the OUNb).<ref>Vedeneyev, D. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20150307183958/http://warhistory.ukrlife.org/5_6_02_4.htm Military Field Gendarmerie – special body of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army]''. "Voyenna Istoriya" magazine. 2002.</ref> The political leadership belonged to the OUNb. It was the primary perpetrator of the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and [[Eastern Galicia]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160401045104/http://www.volhyniamassacre.eu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/5199/The-July-1943-genocidal-operations-of-the-OUN-UPA-in-Volhynia.pdf The July 1943 genocidal operations of OUN-UPA in Volhynia], pp=2-3. [http://www.volhyniamassacre.eu/__data/assets/pdf]</ref>

[[File:UPA massacre.jpg|250px|left|thumb|The UPA was formed out of the OUN.<ref>[https://www.academia.edu/39873146/The_OUN_the_UPA_and_the_Nazi_Genocide_in_Ukraine The OUN, the UPA, and the Nazi Genocide in Ukraine / Collaboration in Eastern Europe during World War II and the Holocaust], [[Ivan Katchanovski]], 2019.</ref>  It's flag was the red and black "Blood and Soil" flag. Euromaidanpress.com are vehemently anti-Russian and the OUN/UPA's chief apologists for [[genocide]].<ref>http://euromaidanpress.com/2018/12/27/history-of-oun-upa-the-bandera-controversy-that-eclipsed-200000-people-who-fought-for-the-independence-of-ukraine/</ref>  Andrea Chalupa, who helped engineer narratives for the [[Trump-Russia collusion hoax]], works for Euromaidanpress.]]

[[File:UPA massacre.jpg|250px|left|thumb|The UPA was formed out of the OUN.<ref>[https://www.academia.edu/39873146/The_OUN_the_UPA_and_the_Nazi_Genocide_in_Ukraine The OUN, the UPA, and the Nazi Genocide in Ukraine / Collaboration in Eastern Europe during World War II and the Holocaust], [[Ivan Katchanovski]], 2019.</ref>  It's flag was the red and black "Blood and Soil" flag. Euromaidanpress.com are vehemently anti-Russian and the OUN/UPA's chief apologists for [[genocide]].<ref>http://euromaidanpress.com/2018/12/27/history-of-oun-upa-the-bandera-controversy-that-eclipsed-200000-people-who-fought-for-the-independence-of-ukraine/</ref>  Andrea Chalupa, who helped engineer narratives for the [[Trump-Russia collusion hoax]], works for Euromaidanpress.]]

Its official date of creation is 14 October 1942,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20111014202829/https://www.kyivpost.com/news/ukraine/detail/114845/ Demotix: 69th anniversary of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army]. 2011.</ref> The Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army at the period from December 1941 till July 1943 has the same name (Ukrainian Insurgent Army or UPA).<ref>Institute of Ukrainian History, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army Chapter 3 pp.104-154</ref>

Its official date of creation is 14 October 1942,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20111014202829/https://www.kyivpost.com/news/ukraine/detail/114845/ Demotix: 69th anniversary of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army]. 2011.</ref> The Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army at the period from December 1941 till July 1943 has the same name (Ukrainian Insurgent Army or UPA).<ref>Institute of Ukrainian History, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army Chapter 3 pp.104-154</ref>