ВИКРИТТЯ А. ШЕПТИЦЬКИМ СУТНОСТІ НАЦИСТСЬКОЇ ПОЛІТИКИ В ЛИСТАХ ДО А. ГІТЛЕРА ТА ПАПИ ПІЯ ХІІ
Journal Title: Науковий вісник Ужгородського університету. Серія: Історія - Year 2019, Vol 40, Issue 1
Abstract
In this article it was considered the letters of A. Sheptyckyy to A. Hitler and Pope Pius ХІІ in which was clearly outlined national and patriotic position of Galician Metropolitan. Also it was emphasized on diplomatic efforts of A. Sheptyckyi for whom this temporal choosing the Hitlerites as ally had situational character. And when Hitler’s politics showed vividly its real nature, Galician Metropolitan strongly condemned Nazis. In order to keep the Ukrainians from hazing of German army, A. Sheptyckyy, M. Velychkivskyy, A. Livytskyy, M. Omelyanovych-Pavlenko and A. Melnyk wrote the address “About getting over the anti-Ukrainian politics of occupational authorities of Germany what concerning national and cultural development of Ukraine” to A. Hitler on January, 14 1942. In this address they condemned suspension of Ukrainian soldiers from active military actions including accession of western Ukrainian territory to General Governorate and handover of Odessa with surrounding territories under the authority of Romania. These actions contradicted the idea of unification of Ukrainian territories into one state and this was one more reason for disappointment of German politics. Greek-Catholic bishops spoke out on issue that in central Ukraine patriotic press was prohibited, Ukrainian schools were closed, the right to private ownership was not renewed. A. Sheptyckyy condemned the creation of collective farms by the Hitlerites (as Bolsheviks did), their desire to treat the Ukrainian peasants like slaves. The letter of A. Sheptyckyy and Greek-Catholic bishops to Hitler was the last attempt to convince Nazis authority that they should not behave arrogantly and violently against Ukrainian people. Atrocities of the Hitlerites on the occupied Ukrainian territory A. Sheptyckyy described in his letter to Pope Pius ХІІ (August, 29-30, 1942), he emphasized the disappointment of Hitler’s politics and unjustified hope of the Ukrainians who lived in Galicia. After extrication from the Bolsheviks’ yoke, citizens have felt themselves free for a month or two and then German government established a regime of terror and corruption. A. Sheptyckyy tried to explain to the Pope that German regime is more violent than Bolsheviks’ one, whereas there are constant murders, theft, burglary, confiscation and bribery. The evaluative thoughts concerning Hitler’s politics made by A. Sheptyckyy in letter to The Pope proved that Galician Metropolitan did never sympathize for Nazis as often wrote Soviet historians. But conversely, he protected the interest of the Ukrainians and wanted to save them from violence of German army.
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Volodymyr Basarab
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- DOI 10.24144/2523-4498.1(40).2019.169969
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