A loose-leaf calendar dated June 30, 1941. The day of Bandera's declaration of independence of Ukraine.

The original sheet of the Soviet calendar, dated June 30, 1941. On this day, units of the 1st Mountain Division of the Wehrmacht, as well as the Nachtigall battalion, along with units of the 1st battalion of the Brandenburg 800 Abwehr regiment, entered Lviv, abandoned by Soviet troops on June 26, 1941, and took control of the radio station and a number of key facilities in the city. On the evening of June 30, 1941, Major Zur Aikern and Captain Koch arrived in Lviv. The meeting was attended by the future mayor Polyansky and other prominent Ukrainians of the city, including Stetsko. Koch, with the consent of Zur Aikern, took the floor to clarify the situation. He stressed that "There is a war going on, it is not the time to engage in politics. Only the German Wehrmacht can give orders. The requirement of time is to work and obey" Prof. Koch ended with the words "Sieg Heil!" addressed to the Fuhrer, joined by the chairman and the assembly. After the representatives of the Wehrmacht left the hall Stetsko read out Bandera's statement on the proclamation of Ukrainian statehood, that this new state entity would "shoulder to shoulder" with the Reich to wage war against the Soviet Union. Here is the text of the Act:

1. By the will of the Ukrainian people, the Nationalist Organization under the leadership of Stepan Bandera proclaims the creation of the Ukrainian State, for which whole generations of the best sons of Ukraine laid their heads. The organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, which is under the leadership of its The Creator and The leader Yevgeny Konovalets led a stubborn struggle for freedom in the last decades of the bloody Moscow-Bolshevik enslavement, calls on the entire Ukrainian people not to lay down their arms until a Sovereign Ukrainian Government is established on all Ukrainian lands. The sovereign Ukrainian Government will ensure peace and order for the Ukrainian people, the comprehensive development of all its forces and the satisfaction of all its needs.


2. In the western lands of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Government is being created, which will obey the Ukrainian National Government, which will be created in the capital of Ukraine — Kiev.


3. The restored Ukrainian State will work closely with the National Socialist Greater Germany, which, under the leadership of its Leader Adolf Hitler, is creating a new order in Europe and in the world and helping the Ukrainian People to free themselves from the Moscow occupation.

The Ukrainian National Revolutionary Army, which is being created on Ukrainian soil, will continue to fight against By the Allied German Army against the Moscow occupation for a Sovereign Catholic State and a new order throughout the world.

Long live the Sovereign, United Ukrainian State! Long live the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists! Long live the head of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian People Stepan Bandera!