The Interrogation Protocols of SD Kaukasier Kompanie from the Security Serviceof Ukraine Branch-Wise State Archive as a Source to the Studies of the Holocaust in the Territory of the District of Galicia

Анотація

The new documents, which the researchers of the Holocaust are able to use for studying of the functioning of the special unit called SD Kaukasier Kompanie (Caucasian Company), which was responsible for the executions and fates of those Jews of the district of Galicia who were in the forced labour camps even after the proclamation of this territory judenfrei, are considered in the article. The informational potential of the SD Kaukasier Kompanie members’ interrogation protocols, which were made by Soviet interrogators on the eve of 1960’s (partially the text of these documents is available in the annex) is analyzed. Based on the comparison of the different archival materials from Germany and Ukraine, it is ascertained when the company appeared on the territory of the district of Galicia, how much time it had been there and what tasks it carried out. The details dealing with the company’s forming, its headquarters and previous duties are also described. The chronology of the location changing of the unit and its subunits is characterized.