Prelude
On February 23, 1944, a patrol consisting of 60 men of the II Battalion of the 4th Gal. SS-Freiwilligen-Regiment attempted to assault the village. The Poles, many of whom were members of the Home Army, killed two of the troops and wounded another. This incident was described in the Chronicle of the Halchyna Division, and documents found in uniforms of the killed soldiers stated that they were members of the SS Galizien Division, stationed in Brody. According to Ukrainian accounts, the bodies of the two soldiers, Roman Andriychuk and Oleksa Bobak, were found naked and mutilated. Their bodies were recovered during a second raid five days later that resulted in between 8-12 Ukrainians being wounded, one of whom, Yuri Hanusiak, died in hospital. Elaborate funerals were organized for those killed, during which Otto Wächter, the German governor of Galicia, laid a wreath at their graves as a Luftwaffe band played.
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