In the Clamp of Totalitarism: Special Department ‘Vineta’ and its Ukrainian Staff Members. Historical And Biographical And Prosopographical Notes
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2024
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The article establishes, identifies and attributes the biographies of a part of the personnel of the special department ‘Vineta’ of the Ministry of Education and Propaganda of the Reich, and examines the common elements of the biographies of the staff members of the Ukrainian editorial office and the translation staff of this special department.The goal of the article is to establish and identify the personnel of the Ukrainian translation staff of the central (Berlin) apparatus of the ‘Vineta’ special department of the Ministry of Education and Propaganda of the Reich in 1941-1944, their biographical attribution, establishing the presence and research of the nature of their interpersonal and corporate ties, common elements and features of biographies. The methodological basis of the research was the principles of objectivity, historicism, and systematicity. The methods of historical-typological, historical-biographical and prosopographic research are applied.Scientific novelty of the publication. For the first time, the biographies of a part of the personnel of the special department ‘Vineta’ of the Ministry of Education and Propaganda of the Reich were established, identified and attributed, and the common elements of the biographies of the staff of the Ukrainian editorial office and the translation staff of the special department wereinvestigated. It is shown that the staff of ‘Vineta’ included well-known linguists, philologists, literary experts, translators, journalists, artists, etc., participants in liberation struggles and activists of political emigration. The article summarizes the data and examines the elements of the ‘Vinetа’ stage of their life path, establishes unknown facts of their pre-war biographies, common and similar features of the latter.Conclusions. Ukrainian intellectuals, artists or high-level specialists were invited to work in the Ukrainian editorial office of the ‘Vineta’ special department. The common biographical feature of the staff is intellectual creative activity, pursuit of literature, journalism, fine arts, etc. in Europe or the USSR; repression by the Soviet authorities. Most of them worked in educational and scientific institutions in Berlin, Prague, Warsaw, Kyiv, etc. during the interwar period. The participants of the Ukrainian Revolution of Liberation identified in the article were veterans of the 3rdIron Division of the Active Army of the Ukrainian People’s Republic. The corporate connections of the rest were: participation in political activities, membership in political organizations, joint professional, scientific and artistic activities. In the post-war period, a certain number of staff members settled in Munich and/or left for Canada, the USA, Argentina and Australia. Most of the former employees of the special branch continued their activities even after the war in the fields of politics, economy and culture.
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World WarII, propaganda, ‘Vineta’ special department, Eastern Department, Ministry of Propaganda, Reich, Ukrainian European political emigration, Друга світова війна, пропаганда, спецвідділ «Вінета», Східний відділ, Міністерство пропаганди, Райх, українська європейська політична еміграція
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Yashyn V. In the Clamp of Totalitarism: Special Department ‘Vineta’ and its Ukrainian Staff Members. Historical And Biographical And Prosopographical Notes [Теxt] / V. Yashyn // Консенсус : науковий журнал / Сумський державний педагогічний університет ім. А. С. Макаренка. – 2024. – № 2. – С. 112–136. – DOI: 10.31110/consensus/2024-02/112-136