WPF UserControl in DataTemplate within ItemsControl - how to bind to parent of ItemsSource?

I have found an answer to my own question, which I hope will help others. The working syntax I have is this.

For each Item in ItemsSource, ItemsControl creates the specified DataTemplate and to its DataContext it assigns the respective Item. Now every DataTemplate can bind to its item in its data context.

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