Hrubieszów Revolution
| Hrubieszów Revolution | |||||||
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| Part of the Massacres of the Poles in the Volhynia and Galicia during the Polish–Ukrainian ethnic conflict in the World War II | |||||||
Soldiers of the Home Army before the attack on the village of Sahryń | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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Home Army Peasant Battalions |
Ukrainian Insurgent Army Kusch Units of the Ukrainian Self–Defense Ukrainian Legion of the Self–Defense 14th Grenadier Division of the Waffen–SS “Galizien” Third Reich | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Zenon Jachymek Stanisław Basaj Stefan Kwaśniewski |
Maryan Lukasevych Myroslav Onyshkevych † Lieutenant-Colonel Werner Froemert Local Orpo, Sipo, and Wehrmacht commanders. | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 3,150 men | 3,600 men (not including the Germans) | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Heavy | Heavy | ||||||
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1,969 Ukrainian civilians were killed 577 Polish civilians were killed | |||||||
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The Hrubieszów Revolution (Polish: Rewolucja hrubieszowska, Ukrainian: Грубешівська революція; March — April, 1944) was a series of armed clashes in Hrubieszów and Tomaszów Counties between the Home Army and Peasant Battalions, on one side, and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, Ukrainian Self-defense Kushch Units, Ukrainian Legion of Self-Defense, and the 14th Grenadier Division of the Waffen–SS “Galicia”
In January and February 1944, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) carried out anti–Polish attacks in Lublin Voivodeship, as it had, in 1943, in Volhynia and eastern Galicia. In response, in March and April 1944 the Home Army and Peasant Battalions carried out retaliatory actions against the Ukrainian armed units.
This in turn led to entry, into the area, of the Ukrainian Self-defense Kushch Units, Ukrainian Legion of Self-Defense, and 14th Grenadier Division of the Waffen–SS “Galicia”, resulting in intensification of anti–Polish actions and of the Polish–Ukrainian ethnic conflict.