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Features of the Functioning of the Institute of Military Chaplains in Ukraine: National Problems and Projection Into International Experience

The article deals with the prerequisites for the formation and implementation of the service of the institute of military chaplains, its importance and relevance in the context of more than a decade of war and a full-scale illegal military invasion of the territory of independent Ukraine.

Training of Ukrainian Waffen-ss Chaplains in Sennheim and Their Duty in 14th Ss-volunteer Division “galicia” (1943–1945)

In the article author researched the background and motives for the establishment of the Chaplaincy service in the 14th SS-Volunteer Division «Galicia» during the Second World War and analyzed the military training of the Chaplain Corps Division. This training took place in the SS-Training Camp Sennheim (Cernay) in 1943 and consisted of a politico- ideological and military training of Ukrainian priests of the Greek Catholic Church. The article also research the status of Ukrainian chaplains in the Waffen-SS and their number — both Greek Catholic and Orthodox.