About the book: 2015 / This collection examines for more than half a century the silent problems concerning one of the most shocking events of the Second World War - the mass murder of the Polish, Jewish, Armenian and Ukrainian civilian population by the OUN-UPA and the SS division "Galicia" on the territory of the south-eastern borderland of Poland. In this work, researchers from Poland, Ukraine and Russia are trying to find an answer to the most The most important question of all is: why? Why did this genocide happen? Why was he so amazingly cruel? Why, finally, those who committed all these atrocities, for the most part, escaped any kind of punishment, and many of them, after World War II, received material assistance and political support from Western powers?