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Anyone have any info on this formation This is all I have been able to find out so far...
"Raised during the Winter of 40/41, the Nightingale Battalion, so-called from the male voice choir which it boasted, was raised dy 1st Regiment (Brandenburg) and made up of former West Ukrainian Polish soldiers who had been taken prisoner during 1939. This battalion distinguished itself as part of the Brandenburg Regiment during the fighting around Lvov and, naively perhaps, declared itself to be the army of a free Ukraine. When the Germans refused to recognise the Ukraine as an independant state open mutiny broke out, and the battalion was disbanded."
The above comes from the book, 'Grossdeutchland' by James Lucas...
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