Chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany
Bonn, Germany
As son of Stepan Bandera, assassinated in Munich in 1959 by [a] Soviet agent, [I] urgently request that you stop [the] visits of A. Shelepin, [who was] convicted and held responsible for [my] father’s murder by [the] German Supreme Court. Entrance of this criminal to Germany is mocking [sic] [a mockery] of [the] German legality [the legal system], insults to decency and self-respect of German people and [a] deep personal affront to my family. Your relations with [the] USSR cannot be based on unprincipled acts reminiscent of [the] Molotov-Ribbentrop collaboration. [The] only condition for the entrance of Shelepin [to Germany] can be [the] action of German judicial authorities to bring him before the courts to answer for [the] murder of my father. Any other course implies complicity and approval of murder by your government. Hoping that you and your government will abide by [your] own declared principals [sic] of justice and morality.
Andrij Bandera [address in Toronto]
The OUN Archive sincerely thanks the family of the OUN Leader, in particular his grandson Stepan Bandera, for the found document (the original is kept in the family archive).
You can listen to the audio recording of the press conference of Yaroslav Stetsko and Andriy Bandera about this event here.
