Ukrainians and their relationships with their neighbors through the centuries. How did Ukraine become Slavic? Just how extensive was Hitler's role in the sufferings of Ukrainians in 1941-44? The Goths, the Huns and the Khazars all settled in the area at different times;The Varangians (Scandinavians) arrived around 880 and created the most powerful state in Europe: Kievan Rus;It was devastated by a 13th Century Mongol invasion and eventually succeeded by the state of Galicia-Volhynia;Lithuanians and Poles controlled vast estates in Ukraine, the Cossacks led an uprising and Russians moved into the Crimea;Hitler reunites Eastern Galicia and Volhynia with UkraineWhat led to the violent ethnic cleansing between Poles and Ukrainians in Volhynia 1943;Why the spirit of extreme nationalism contradicted the concept of the Slavic nations and National Socialist Germany fighting the Soviets together.