Bergbauernhilfe
ActiveAugust 15, 1939
Disbanded28 September 1939
RoleNever saw action
Size120 men
Commanders
Colonel of
the Regiment
Roman Sushko

Bergbauernhilfe (BBH)– ("mountain-peasant’s help") – codename of the Abwehr II subversive operations unit of 120 men recruited from the OUN members. It was established on August 15, 1939. This unit was disbanded on September 28 of the same year, and Abwehr was ordered to cease contacts with Ukrainian Nationalists with the advent of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.[1]

References

  1. "Про створення, функціонування та складну долю українського військового підрозділу "Нахтігаль" « УКРАЇНСЬКА ПОВСТАНСЬКА АРМІЯ. ІСТОРІЯ НЕСКОРЕНИХ". upa.in.ua. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
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