Prisoner Ukrainian officers of the Russian Army in the camp of Rastatt (Germany) in 1916: public and personal dimension camp everyday life
Journal Title: Eminak - Year 2017, Vol 1, Issue 4
Abstract
The need to intensify cultural and educational and national patriotic work in the camps of the captured soldiers of the Ukrainian army of the Russian Army prompted the Union for the liberation of Ukraine to seek new forms of influence on the consciousness of the captives. One of them was the involvement of her (as grassroots organizers) of the Ukrainian-Ukrainian officers of the Tsarist Army, who have expressed their consent to such use. German military authorities agreed to stay captured Ukrainian officers in Rastatt, which had a significant symbolic and practical significance for the further development of the national movement in this camp. Lieutenant Mykola Shapoval an extremely valuable acquisition for the Ukrainian community in Rastatt, who, from March 1916, was constantly residing in Rastatt, performing a considerable amount of work (as a member of the department). But not all officers who were transferred to Rastatt camp were provided for cultural, educational and organizational work. Some of them tried to compromise Ukrainian business at all, developing their own escape plans, taking possession of the documents, which would give the Russian counterintelligence additional grounds for accusations of the Union of liberation of Ukraine in subversion. It is obvious that such officers (in case of disclosure of such intentions) were promptly removed from Rastatt to Russian officers’ camps, where also they were sent and unable to conduct the national-patriotic work of the «Little-Russians». Significantly more negative consequences were internal disputes between the civil members of the Camp Education Department and those officers, which, though they were committed to the Ukrainian liberation idea, had complex and uncompromising attitudes. This was all the more dangerous that this confrontation took place during the next reorganization of the senior management of the camp community «Independent Ukraine», which was due to the need to transfer the highest executive power in the camp to General (before which she remained in the hands of the head of the Educational Department). In the end, after intervention in the case of the Berlin Central Union, the conflict was settled by transferring part of the officers to another Ukrainian camp. Consequently, the participation of Ukrainian officers in the cultural-educational and national-patriotic life of the prisoners’ community at the Rastatt camp has led to positive moves, bringing fresh impetus to the work of various camp institutions. Due to this, it became possible for the majority of officers to get rid of the remains of the «Little-Russians» in their consciousness, as well as gain valuable experience in organizing work.
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Ihor Sribnyak
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