ASSS Archives of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in New York
AAN Archiwum Akt Nowych w Warszawie (Archives of Modern Records in Warsaw)
ABN Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations
AENM Alliance of European National Movements
AK Armia Krajowa (Polish Home Army)
ASBML Archive of the Stepan Bandera Museum, London
ASSS Archives of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, New York
ATsDVR Arkhiv Tsentru doslidzhen’ vyzvol’noho rukhu (Archives of the Institute for the Study of the Liberation Movement)
AUNR Armia Ukraїns’koї Narodnoї Respubliky (Ukrainian People’s Army)
AŻIH Archiwum Żydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego (Archives of the Jewish Historical Museum, Warsaw)
BAB Bundesarchiv Berlin (German Federal Archives, Berlin)
BAK Bundesarchiv Koblenz (German Federal Archives, Koblenz)
BA-MA Bundesarchiv—Militärarchiv (Military Archives in Freiburg)
BayHStA Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv (Bavarian Main State Archives)
BCh Bataliony Chłopskie (Peasants’ Battalions)
BMN Blok Mniejszości Narodowych (Bloc of National Minorities, Blok fon Nashonal Minorities, Blok Natsional’nykh Menshyn, or Block der Nationalen Minderheiten)
BN Biblioteka Narodowa w Warszawie (National Library, Warsaw)
BND Bundesnachrichtendienst (Federal Intelligence Service)
BRD Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Federal Republic of Germany)
BStU Bundesbeauftragte für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheits-dienstes (Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Archives)
CAW Centralne Archiwum Wojskowe, Rembertów (Central Military Archives, Rembertów)
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
CIUS Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
CŻKH Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna (Central Jewish Historical Commission)
DALO Derzhavnyi Arkhiv L’vivskoї Oblasti (State Archives of Lviv Oblast)
DDR Deutsche Demokratische Republik (German Democratic Republic)
DP displaced person(s)
FNIe Front natsional’noї iednosti (Front of National Unity)
FHO Fremde Heere Ost (German Military Intelligence on the Eastern Front)
FSB Federal’naia sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiiskoi Federatsii (Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation
GARF Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii (State Archive of the Russian Federation)
Gestapo Geheime Staatspolizei (Secret State Police)
HA Hauptabteilung (Main Department—of the MfS)
HURI Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
HDA SBU Haluzevyi Derzhavnyi arkhiv Sluzhby bezpeky Ukraïny (State Archives of the Security Service of Ukraine)
HJ Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth)
HRO Hrvatska revolucionarna organizacija (Croatian Revolutionary Organization), or Ustaša
HSLS Hlinkova slovenská ľudová strana (Hlinka’s Slovak People’s Party)
HUNM Hrupa Ukraїns’koї Natsionalnoї Molodi (Group of the Ukrainian National Youth)
HURI Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
KAUM Katolyts’ka aktsiia ukraїns’koї molodi (Catholic Action of Ukrainian Youth)
KAW Karta, Archiwum Wschodnie in Warsaw (Karta Archives in Warsaw)
KGB Komitet gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security)
KiSPSB Komitet iz sporudzhennia pam”iatnyka Stepanu Banderi (Society to Erect the Stepan Bandera Monument)
KONR Komitet Osvobodzheniia Narodov Rossii (Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia)
KP(b)U Komunistychna Partiia (bil’shovykiv) Ukraїny (Communist Party [Bolsheviks] of Ukraine)
KPSS Kommunisticheskaia Partiia Sovetskogo Soiuza (Communist Party of the Soviet Union)
KPU Komunistychna Partiia Ukrayїny (Communist Party of Ukraine)
KPZU Komunistychna Partiia Zakhidnoї Ukraїny (Communist Party of West Ukraine)
KUK Komitet Ukraїntsiv Kanady (Ukrainian Canadian Committee)
KUN Kongres Ukraїns’kykh Natsionalistiv (Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists)
LAF Lietuvos aktyvistų frontas (Lithuanian Activist Front)
LNAU L’vivs’kyi Natsional’nyi Ahrarnyi Universytet (L’viv State Agrarian University)
LN-W Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen (Provincial Archives, Nordrhein-Westfalen)
LUN Lehiia Ukraїns’kykh Natsionalistiv (Legion of Ukrainian Nationalists)
MfS Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, Stasi (Ministry for State Security)
MGB Ministerstvo Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti (Ministry of State Security)
MI6 Colloquial name for the Foreign Section of the (British) Secret Intelligence Service (SIS)
MSW Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych (Ministry of Internal Affairs)
MSZ Ministerstwo Spraw Zewnętrznych (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
MVD Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del (Ministry of Internal Affairs)
NARA U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
NDH Nezavisna Država Hrvatska (Independent State of Croatia)
NKGB Narodnyi komissariat gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti (People’s Commissariat for State Security)
NKVD Narodnyi komissariat vnutrennikh del (People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs)
NPD Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (National Democratic Party of Germany)
NRU Narodnyi Rukh Ukraїny (Popular Movement of Ukraine)
NSDAP Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers’ Party)
NSZ Narodowe Siły Zbrojne (National Armed Forces)
NTS Natsional’no Trudowoi Soiuz (National Alliance of Russian Solidarists)
OKW Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Supreme Command of the Armed Forces)
ONR Obóz Narodowo-Radykalny (National Radical Camp)
OPC Office of Policy Coordination
OSS Office of Strategic Services
OUN-B Orhanizatsia Ukraїns’kykh Natsionalistiv-Bandera (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists-Bandera)
OUN-M Orhanizatsia Ukraїns’kykh Natsionalistiv-Mel’nyk (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists-Mel’nyk)
OUN-z Orhanizatsia Ukraїns’kykh Natsionalistiv-za kordonom (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists-abroad)
OVF Orhanizatsiï Vyzvol’noho Frontu (Organizations of the Liberation Front)
ObVB Ob”iednannia Ukraїntsiv u Velykii Brytaniї (Federation of Ukrainians in Great Britain)
OVKUH Orhanizaciia Vyzhchykh Klias Ukraїns’kykh Himnazii (Organization of the Upper Grades of the Ukrainian High Schools)
PAA Provincial Archives of Alberta
PAAA Politisches Archiv des Auswärtigen Amtes in Berlin (Political Archives of the Foreign Office in Berlin)
PSPU Prohresyvna sotsialistychna partiia Ukraїny (Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine)
PUN Provid Ukraїns’kykh Natsionalistiv (Leadership of the Ukrainian Nationalists)
PRL Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa (People’s Republic of Poland)
PZPR Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza (Polish United Workers’ Party)
RCMP Royal Canadian Mounted Police
RFP Rossiiskaia fashistskaia partiia (Russian Fascist Party)
RGASPI Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv sotsial’no-politicheskoi istorii (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic)
RGVA Rossiiskii Gosudarstvennyi voennyi arkhiv (Russian State Military Archives)
ROA Ruskaia Osvoboditelnaia Armia (Russian Liberation Army)
RGASOI Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv sotsial’no-poiliticheskoi istorii (Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History)
RSHA Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Security Main Office)
SB Sluzhba Bezpeky (Security Service)
SBU Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukraїny (Security Service of Ukraine)
SD Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service)
SED Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (Socialist Unity Party of Germany)
SIFAR Servizio Informazioni Forze Armate (Italian Military Intelligence)
SIS Secret Intelligence Service
SNPU Sotsial-natsional’na partiia Ukraïny (Social-National Party of Ukraine)
SNUM Spilka Nezalezhnoї Ukraїns’koї Molodi (Association of Independent Ukrainian Youth)
SS Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron)
StM Staatsarchiv München (Munich State Archives)
SUB Soiuz Ukraїntsiv u Velykii Brytaniї (Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain)
SUF Soiuz Ukraїns’kykh Fashystiv (Union of Ukrainian Fascists)
SUM Spilka Ukraїns’koї Molodi (Ukrainian Youth Organization)
SUN Soiuz Ukraїns’kykh Natsionalistiv (Union of the Ukrainian Nationalists)
SUNM Soiuz Ukraїns’koi Natsionalistychnoї Molodi (Union of the Ukrainian Nationalistic Youth)
SUOZUNzW Stowarzyszenie Upamiętnienia Ofiar Zbrodni Ukraińskich Nacjonalistów z Wrocławia (Society to Commemorate the Victims of the Crimes of Ukrainian Nationalists in Wrocław)
TsDAHO Tsentral’nyi derzhavnyi arkhiv hromads’kykh obiednan’ Ukrainy (Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine)
TsDAVOV Tsentral’nyi derzhavnyi arkhiv vyshchykh orhaniv vlady ta upravlinnia Ukrainy (Central State Archives of the Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine)
TsDIAL Tsentral’nyi derzhavnyi istorychnyi arkhiv u L’vovi (Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in Lviv)
TsDVR Tsentr doslidzhen’ vyzvol’noho rukhu (Institute for the Study of the Liberation Movement)
TShLA Taras Shevchenko Library and Archives (of the SUB in London)
TsNV Tsentr Natsional’noho vidrodzhennia imeni Stepana Bandery (Stepan Bandera Centre of National Revival)
UNO Ukraїns’ke Natsional’ne Obiednannia (Ukrainian National Association)
UNRRA United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
UB Urząd Bezpieczeństwa (Polish Department of Security)
UCC Kongres Ukraїntsiv Kanady (Ukrainian Canadian Congress)
UHA Ukrayins’ka Halyts’ka Armiia (Ukrainian Galician Army)
UHVR Ukraїns’ka Holovna Vyzvol’na Rada (Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council)
UINP Ukraїns’kyi instytut natsional’noї pam”iati (Ukrainian Institute of National Memory)
UKKA Ukraїns’kyi Kongresovyi Komitet Ameryky (Ukrainian Congress Committee of America)
Ukrainian SRR Ukrayins’ka Radyans’ka Sotsialistychna Respublika (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic)
UKU Ukraїns’kyi Katholyts’kyi Soiuz (Ukrainian Catholic Union)
UNA Ukraïns’ka natsional’na asambleia (Ukrainian National Assembly)
UNA Ukraїns’ka Natsional’na Armiia (Ukrainian National Army)
UNDO Ukraїns’ke Natsional’no-Demokratychne Obiednannia (Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance)
UNDP Ukraїns’ka Natsional’no-Demokratychna Partia (Ukrainian National-Democratic Party)
UNF Ukrainian National Federation of Canada
UNK Ukraїns’kyi Natsional’nyi Komitet (Ukrainian National Committee)
UNO Ukraїns’ke Natsional’ne Obiednannia (Ukrainian National Association)
UNP Ukraїns’ka Narodna Partia (Ukrainian National Party)
UNR Ukrayins’ka Narodna Respublika (Ukrainian People’s Republic)
UNR Ukraїns’ka Natsionalna Rada (Ukrainian National Council)
UNRRA United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
UNSO Ukraïns’ka natsional’na samooborona (Ukrainian National Self-Defense)
UPA Ukraїns’ka Povstans’ka Armiia (Ukrainian Insurgent Army)
USHMM United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
USRP Ukraїns’ka Sotsialistychno-Radykalna Partiia (Ukrainian Socialist Radical Party)
USSR Soiuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
UTsK Ukraїns’kyi Tsentral’nyi Komitet (Ukrainian Central Committee)
UVF Ukraїns’kyi Vyzvol’nyi Front (Ukrainian Liberation Front)
UVO Ukraїns’ka Viis’kova Orhanizatsiia (Ukrainian Military Organization)
UVU Ukraїns’kyi Vil’nyi Universytet (Ukrainian Free University)
UWI Ukrainisches Wissenschaftliches Institut (Ukrainian Scientific Institute)
UWVA Ukrainian War Veteran’s Association
VMRO Vatreshna makedonska revoliutsionna organizatsia (Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation)
VNN Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes (Society of People Persecuted by the Nazi Regime)
ZAIG Zentrale Auswertungs- und Informationsgruppe des MfS (Central Evaluation and Information Group)
ZCh OUN Zakordonni Chastyny OUN (Foreign Units of the OUN)
ZNiO Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich we Wrocławiu (National Ossoliński Institute in Wrocław)
ZP UHVR Zakordonne Predstavnytsvo UHVR (Foreign Representation of the UHVR)
ZUNR Zakhidno-Ukrayins’ka Narodna Respublyka (West Ukrainian National Republic)
The region in which Bandera lived for the first thirty years of his life was inhabited by peoples who spoke different languages and used various names for their cities, towns, and villages, and also for the regions in which they lived, such as Lemberg, Lwów, Lemberik, L’viv, L’vov for Lviv; or Kraków, Kroke, Krakau for Cracow; or Galizien, Halychyna, Galicja, Galitsye for Galicia. In this book I use well-established English names, such as Cracow, Galicia, Kiev, Lviv, Moscow, or Warsaw, if they exist. Otherwise I use the names in the language of the country in which they are currently located, such as Ivano-Frankivs’k, Ternopil’ or Gdańsk. On first use, I also introduce the name used by the state administration at that time. The transliteration of Ukrainian and Russian words follows the standard of the Library of Congress (unless Latin characters were used in the original).