dear comrades ready translation into Russian "General plan ost" posted ----->> in pdf.
translations was made by the Club "Essence of Time" and laid out on the InoForum. Recently, NTV once again drew public attention to the topic of the Ost master plan, reporting that for the first time a text of enormous historical value was posted in the public domain. In fact, the text of the document under discussion had long been “in wide access” on the same site, it was simply added to it with a facsimile from the Bundesarchive (however, this is not the only inaccuracy in this short report). After participating in a couple of regular discussions on the topic of GPO, I realized that I was tired of repeating the same thing over and over, and I decided to systematize the main questions and answers to them. Of course, this text is a "working" version and does not claim to finally close the topic of the "master plan".

The most frequently asked questions are:

2. What is the history of GPO? What documents are related to it?
3. What is the content of the GPO?
5. The plan does not have the signature of Hitler or any other high official of the Reich, which means that it is invalid.

8. When were the Plan Ost documents discovered? Is there any possibility that they are fake?
9. What can I read more about GPO?

1. What is the "General Plan Ost?"

Under the "General Plan Ost" (GPO), modern historians understand a set of plans, draft plans and memorandums devoted to the settlement of the so-called. "eastern territories" (Poland and the Soviet Union) in the event of a German victory in the war. The GPO concept was developed on the basis of the Nazi racial doctrine under the patronage of the Reichskommissariat for the Strengthening of German Statehood (RKF), headed by the Reichsfuehrer SS Himmler, and was supposed to serve as a theoretical foundation for the colonization and Germanization of the occupied territories.

2. What is the history of GPO? What documents are related to it?

A general overview of the documents is given in the following table (with links to materials posted online):

	Name	the date	Volume	Who prepared	Original	Objects of colonization
1	Planungsgrundlagen (Fundamentals of planning)	February 1940	21 pages	RKF planning department	BA, R 49/157, S.1-21	Western regions of Poland
2	Materialien zum Vortrag "Siedlung" (materials for the report "Settlement")	December 1940	5 pages	RKF planning department	facsimile in G. Aly, S. Heim "Bevölkerungsstruktur und Massenmord" (p.29-32)	Poland
3		July 1941	?	RKF planning department	lost, dated according to cover letter	?
4	Gesamtplan Ost (cumulative plan Ost)	December 1941	?	planning group III B RSHA	lost; lengthy review by Dr. Wetzel (Stellungnahme und Gedanken zum Generalplan Ost des Reichsführers SS, 04/27/1942, NG-2325; an abbreviated Russian translation allows the content to be reconstructed	Baltic, Ingria; Poland, Belarus, Ukraine (strongholds); Crimea (?)
5	Generalplan Ost (general plan Ost)	May 1942	84 pages	Institute of Agriculture at the University of Berlin BA, R 49/157a, facsimile	BA, R 49/157a, facsimile	Baltic, Ingermanlandia, Gotengau; Poland, Belarus, Ukraine (strongholds)
6	Generalsiedlungsplan (general settlement plan)	October-December 1942	planned 200 pages, a general outline of the plan and key figures have been prepared	RKF planning department	BA, R 49/984	Luxembourg, Alsace, Lorraine, Czech Republic, Lower Styria, Baltic States, Poland

Work on plans for the settlement of the eastern territories began almost immediately after the creation of the Reichskommissariat for the strengthening of German statehood in October 1939. Headed by prof. By Konrad Mayer, the RKF planning department presented the first plan for the settlement of the western regions of Poland annexed to the Reich as early as February 1940. It was under the direction of Mayer that five of the six documents listed above were prepared (The Institute of Agriculture, which appears in document 5, was led by the same Mayer ). It should be noted that the RKF was not the only department that thought about the future of the eastern territories, similar work was carried out in the Rosenberg ministry and in the department responsible for the four-year plan, which was headed by Goering (the so-called "Green Folder"). It is precisely this competitive situation that explains, in particular, the criticality of the recall of the employee of the Ministry of the Occupied Eastern Territories, Wetzel, to the version of the plan Ost presented by the RSHA planning group (document 4). Nevertheless, Himmler, not least thanks to the success of the propaganda exhibition "Planning and Building a New Order in the East" in March 1941, gradually managed to achieve a dominant position. Document 5, for example, speaks of "the priority of the Reichskommissar for the strengthening of the German state in matters of settlement (colonized territories) and planning."

To understand the logic of the development of the GPO, two reviews of Himmler on the plans presented by Mayer are important. In the first, dated 12.06.42 (BA, NS 19/1739, Russian translation), Himmler demands that the plan be expanded to include not only the "Eastern", but also other territories subject to Germanization (West Prussia, the Czech Republic, Alsace-Lorraine, etc.). etc.), shorten the time frame and set as the goal the complete Germanization of Estonia, Latvia and the entire Governor-General.

The consequence of this was the renaming of the GPO into the “master plan of settlement” (document 6), while, however, some of the territories present in document 5 fell out of the plan, to which Himmler immediately draws attention (letter to Mayer dated 12.01.1943, BA, NS 19 /1739): “Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Ingermanland, as well as the Crimea and Tavria should be included in the eastern territories for settlement [...] The named territories should be completely Germanized / completely populated.”

Mayer never presented the next version of the plan: the course of the war made further work on it meaningless.

The following table uses the data systematized by M. Burchard:

	Territory of settlement	Number of migrants	Population subject to eviction / not subject to Germanization	Cost estimate
1.	87600 sq. km.	4.3 million	560,000 Jews, 3.4 million Poles in the first stage	-
2.	130000 sq. km.	480,000 farms	-	-
3.	?	?	?	?
4.	700,000 sq. km.	1-2 million German families and 10 million foreigners with Aryan blood	31 million (80-85% Poles, 75% Belarusians, 65% Ukrainians, 50% Czechs)	—
5.	364231 sq. km.	5.65 million	min. 25 million (90% Poles, 50% Estonians, more than 50% Latvians, 85% Lithuanians)	66 billion RM
6.	330,000 sq. km.	12.21 million	30.8 million (95% Poles, 50% Estonians, 70% Latvians, 85% Lithuanians, 50% French, Czechs and Slovenes)	144 billion RM

Let us dwell in more detail on the fully preserved and most elaborated document 5: it is supposed to be implemented in stages within 25 years, Germanization quotas for various nationalities are introduced, it is proposed to prohibit the indigenous population from owning property in cities in order to force them into the countryside and use them in agriculture. To control territories with a non-predominant German population at first, a form of margraviate is introduced, the first three: Ingermanland (Leningrad region), Gotengau (Crimea, Kherson), and Memel-Narev (Lithuania - Bialystok). In Ingermanland, the population of towns must be reduced from 3 million to 200,000. In Poland, Belarus, the Baltic states, Ukraine, a network of strongholds is being formed, with a total of 36, providing effective communication between the margraviates with each other and with the metropolis (see reconstruction). In 25-30 years, the margraviates should be Germanized by 50%, and the strongholds by 25-30% (In the review already known to us, Himmler demanded that the period for implementing the plan be reduced to 20 years, to consider the complete Germanization of Estonia and Latvia and more active Germanization of Poland).

In conclusion, it is emphasized that the success of the settlement program will depend on the will and colonization strength of the Germans, and if it survives these tests, then the next generation will be able to close the northern and southern flanks of colonization (i.e., populate Ukraine and central Russia.)

It should be noted that documents 5 and 6 do not contain specific numbers of residents to be evicted, however, they are derived from the difference between the actual number of residents and the planned one (taking into account the German settlers and the local population suitable for Germanization). Document 4 names Western Siberia as the territories to which residents unsuitable for Germanization should be evicted. The leaders of the Reich have repeatedly spoken about the desire to Germanize the European territory of Russia up to the Urals.

From a racial point of view, Russians were considered the least Germanisi

rumeny people, moreover, poisoned for 25 years by the poison of "Judao-Bolshevism." It is difficult to say unambiguously how the policy of decimation of the Slavic population would be carried out. According to one of the testimonies, Himmler, before the start of Operation Barbarossa, called the goal of the campaign against Russia "a decrease in the Slavic population by 30 million." Wetzel wrote about measures to reduce the birth rate (encouragement of abortion, sterilization, refusal to fight infant mortality, etc.), Hitler himself expressed himself more directly: “Local residents? We will have to deal with their filtering. We will remove destructive Jews altogether. My impression of the Belarusian territory is better than that of the Ukrainian one. We will not go to Russian cities, they must completely die out. We should not torture ourselves with remorse. We do not need to get used to the role of a nanny, we have no obligations to the local residents. Repairing houses, catching lice, German teachers, newspapers? Not! It’s better that we open a radio station under our control, but otherwise it’s enough for them to know the signs traffic so as not to get in our way! By freedom, these people understand the right to bathe only on holidays. If we come with shampoo, it will not cause sympathy. There you need to relearn. There is only one task: to carry out Germanization through the importation of Germans, and the former inhabitants must be considered as Indians.

4. In fact, the GPO was developed by a petty official, should it be taken seriously?

Petty official Prof. Konrad Mayer was not. As mentioned above, he headed the planning department of the RKF, as well as the land department of the same Reichskommissariat and the Institute of Agriculture at the University of Berlin. He was a Standartenführer, and later Oberführer (in the military table of ranks above colonel, but below major general) of the SS. By the way, another popular misconception is that the GPO was allegedly the product of the inflamed imagination of a crazy SS man. This is also not true: agrarians, economists, managers and other specialists from academia worked on the GPO. For example, in the cover letter to Document 5 Mayer writes

This is about the assistance of "my closest associates in the planning department and the main land office, as well as the financial expert, Dr. Besler (Jen)". Additional funding came through the German Research Society (DFG): from 1941 to 1945, 510 thousand RM were allocated for “scientific and planning work to strengthen the German statehood”, of which 60-70 thousand RM were spent per year for their working group, the rest went as grants to scientists who conducted research relevant to the RKF. For comparison, the maintenance of a scientist with a scientific degree cost about 6 thousand RM per year (data from the report of I. Heinemann.)

It is important to note that Mayer worked on the GPO on the initiative and on the instructions of the RKF chief Himmler and in close connection with him, while the correspondence was conducted both through the head of the RKF headquarters Greifelt and directly. Widely known photographs taken during the exhibition "Planning and building a new order in the East", in which Meyer speaks to Himmler, Hess, Heydrich and Todt.

5. The plan does not have the signature of Hitler or any other Nazi leader, which means it is invalid.

The GPO actually did not advance beyond the design stage, which was largely facilitated by the course of hostilities - from 1943 the plan began to quickly lose relevance. Of course, the GPO was not signed by Hitler or anyone else, since it was a plan for the post-war settlement of the occupied regions. The very first sentence of document 5 states this directly: “Thanks to German weapons, the eastern territories, which have been the object of disputes that have dragged on for many centuries, are finally annexed to the Reich.”

Nevertheless, it would be a mistake to deduce from this the disinterest of Hitler and the leadership of the Reich in the GPO. As already shown above, the work on the plan took place on the instructions and under the constant patronage of Himmler, who, in turn, "would like to transfer this plan also to the Fuhrer at a convenient time" (letter of 06/12/1942)

Recall that already in "Mein Kampf" Hitler wrote: "We stop the eternal advance of the Germans to the south and west of Europe and direct our gaze to the eastern lands." The concept of "living space in the east" was repeatedly mentioned by the Fuhrer in the 30s (for example, immediately after coming to power, 02/03/1933, he, speaking to the generals of the Reichswehr, spoke about "the need to conquer the living space in the east and its decisive Germanization" ), after the start of the war, it acquired a clear outline. Here is a recording of one of Hitler's monologues dated 10/17/1941:

The Führer once again outlined his thoughts on the development of the eastern regions. The most important thing is the roads. He told Dr. Todt that the original plan prepared by him should be greatly expanded. In the next twenty years, three million prisoners will be at his disposal to solve this problem ... German cities should appear at large river crossings, in which the Wehrmacht, the police, the administrative apparatus and the party will be based.
Along the roads German peasant farms, and the plain Asian-looking steppe will soon take on a completely different look. In 10 years, 4 million Germans will move there, in 20 - 10 million Germans. They will come not only from the Reich, but also from America, as well as Scandinavia, Holland and Flanders. The rest of Europe can also take part in joining the Russian expanses. In Russian cities, those that will survive the war - Moscow and Leningrad should not survive it in any way - the foot of a German should not set foot. They must vegetate in their own shit away from the German roads. The Fuhrer again touched upon the topic that "contrary to the opinion of individual headquarters" neither the education of the local population nor the care of it should be dealt with ...
He, the Fuhrer, will introduce new management with an iron hand, what the Slavs will think about this does not touch him at all. Whoever eats German bread today does not give much thought to the fact that the fields east of the Elbe were reclaimed by the sword in the 12th century.

Of course, his subordinates also echoed him. For example, on October 2, 1941, Heydrich described the future colonization as follows:

Other lands - eastern lands, partly inhabited by Slavs, are lands where one must clearly understand that kindness will be perceived as a sign of weakness. These are lands where the Slav himself does not want to have equal rights with the master, where he is used to being in the service. These are the lands in the east that we will have to manage and hold. These are lands where, after the solution of the military question, German control should be introduced up to the Urals, and they should serve us as a source of minerals, labor, like helots, roughly speaking. These are lands to be treated, as in the construction of a dam and the draining of the coast: far to the east, a protective wall is being built, enclosing them from Asian storms, and from the west, the gradual annexation of these lands to the Reich begins. From this point of view it is necessary to consider what is happening in the east. The first step would be the creation of a protectorate from the provinces of Danzig-West Prussia and the Warthegau. A year ago, eight million more Poles lived in these provinces, as well as in East Prussia and the Silesian part. These are lands that will gradually be populated by Germans, the Polish element will be squeezed out step by step. These are lands that in due time will become completely German. And then further east, to the Baltic states, which will also become completely German in due time, although here it is necessary to consider what part of the blood of Latvians, Estonians and Lithuanians is suitable for Germanization. The best in the racial sense here are Estonians, they have strong Swedish influences, then Latvians, and the worst are Lithuanians.
Then the turn of the rest of Poland will come, this is the next territory, which should be gradually settled by the Germans, and the Poles should be squeezed further to the east. Then Ukraine, which at first as an intermediate solution should be, with the use of, of course, the national idea still dormant in the subconscious, separated from the rest of Russia and used as a source of minerals and provisions under German control. Of course, not allowing the people to strengthen or strengthen there, raising their educational level, since this may later lead to the opposition, which, with the weakening of the central government, will strive for independence ...

A year later, on November 23, 1942, Himmler spoke of the same thing:

The main colony of our Reich lies in the east. Today - a colony, tomorrow - a settlement area, the day after tomorrow - a Reich! [...] If next year or next year Russia is likely to be defeated in a bitter struggle, we will still have a great task before us. After the victory of the German peoples, the space for settlement in the east must be developed, settled and annexed to European culture. Over the next 20 years - counting from the end of the war - I have set myself the task (and I hope I can solve it with your help) to move the German border about 500 km to the east. This means that we must resettle farm families there, the best carriers of German blood will begin to be resettled and the millions of Russian people will be ordered to our tasks ... 20 years of struggle for peace lie before us ... Then this east will be cleansed of foreign blood and our families will settle there as legal owners.

As you can see, all three quotations correlate perfectly with the main provisions of the GPO.

6. The GPO was a purely theoretical concept.

AT broad sense this is true: there is no reason to implement a plan for the post-war settlement of the occupied territories until the war is over. This does not mean, however, that measures for the Germanization of individual regions were not carried out at all. First of all, it should be noted here the western regions of Poland (West Prussia and Warthegau) attached to the Reich, the settlement of which was mentioned in document 1. in the ghetto and extermination camps on their own territory: out of 435,000 Jews of the Warthegau, 12,000 survived) by March 1941. more than 280,000 people were deported from the Warthegau alone. The total number of Poles deported from West Prussia and the Warthegau to the General Government is estimated at 365,000. Their yards and apartments were occupied by German settlers, who by March 1942 in these two regions already numbered 287 thousand.

At the end of November 1942, on the initiative of Himmler, the so-called. "Aktion Zamość", the purpose of which was the Germanization of the district of Zamość, which was declared "the first area of ​​German settlement" in the General Government. By August 1943, 110,000 Poles were evicted: about half were deported, the rest fled on their own, many went to the partisans. To protect future settlers, it was decided to use the enmity between Poles and Ukrainians and create a defensive ring of Ukrainian villages around the settlement area. Due to the lack of forces to maintain order, the action was stopped in August 1943. By that time, only about 9,000 out of 60,000 planned settlers had moved to Zamość County.

Finally, in 1943, not far from Himmler's headquarters in Zhytomyr, the German town of Hegewald was created: 15,000 Ukrainians expelled from their homes were replaced by 10,000 Germans. At the same time, the first settlers went to the Crimea.
All these activities are also quite correlated with the GPO. It is interesting to note that Prof. Mayer visited Western Poland, and Zamosc, and Zhytomyr, and the Crimea during business trips, that is, he assessed the feasibility of his concept on the ground.

7. Implementing such a plan is unrealistic.

Of course, one can only guess about the reality of the implementation of the GPO in the form in which it is described in the documents that have come down to us. We are talking about the resettlement of tens of millions (and, apparently, the extermination of millions) of people, the need for migrants is estimated at 5-10 million people. The dissatisfaction of the expelled population and, as a result, a new round of armed struggle against the occupiers are practically guaranteed. It is unlikely that the settlers would have rushed to the area where the guerrilla war continues.

On the other hand, we are talking not just about the idea-fix of the leadership of the Reich, but also about scientists (economists, planners, managers) who projected this idea-fix onto reality: no supernatural or impossible obligations were set, the task of Germanizing the Baltic states, Ingermanland, Crimea, Poland, parts of Ukraine and Belarus had to be solved in small steps over 20 years, along the way the details (for example, the percentage of suitability for Germanization) would be corrected and refined. As for the “unreality of the GPO” in terms of scale, we must not forget that, for example, the number of Germans expelled during and after the end of World War II from the territories in which they lived is also described by an eight-digit number. And it took not 20 years, but five times less.

Hopes (expressed today, mainly by adherents of General Vlasov and other collaborators) that some part of the occupied territories would gain independence or at least self-government are not reflected in real Nazi plans (see, for example, Hitler in Bormann's notes, 07/16/41:

We will again emphasize that we were forced to occupy this or that area, restore order in it and secure it. In the interests of the population, we are forced to take care of peace, food, means of communication, etc., so we introduce our own rules here. No one should recognize that in this way we introduce our orders forever! All the necessary measures - executions, evictions, etc., we, despite this, are implementing and can implement.
We, however, do not at all wish to prematurely turn anyone into our enemies. Therefore, for the time being, we will act as if this area is a mandated territory. But we ourselves must be perfectly clear that we will never leave it. [...]
Most basic:
The formation of a power capable of waging war to the west of the Urals must never be allowed, even if we have to fight for another hundred years. All the Fuhrer's successors must know: the Reich will be safe only if there is no foreign army to the west of the Urals, Germany takes upon itself the protection of this space from all possible threats.
The iron law should read: "No one but the Germans should ever be allowed to carry weapons!"

At the same time, it is pointless to compare the situation of 1941-42 with the situation of 1944, when the Nazis made promises much more easily, since they were happy with almost any help: an active conscription began in the ROA, Bandera was released, etc. Like the Nazis belonged to the allies who pursued goals that were not approved in Berlin, including those who stood up for (albeit puppet) independence in 1941-42, the example of the same Bandera clearly shows.

8. When were the documents on the Ost plan discovered? Is there any possibility that they are fake?

Dr. Wetzel's response and a number of accompanying documents figured already at the Nuremberg trials, documents 5 and 6 were found in American archives and published by Czesław Madajczyk (Przeglad Zachodni Nr. 3 1961).
Theoretically, the possibility that a particular document is falsified always exists. In this case, however, it is important that we are dealing not with one or two, but with a whole range of documents, which includes not only the main ones discussed above, but also various accompanying notes, reviews, letters, protocols - in the classic C. Madajczyk's collection contains more than one hundred relevant documents. Therefore, it is absolutely not enough to call one document a falsification, taking it out of the context of the rest. If, for example, document 6 is a falsification, then what does Himmler write to Maier in his response to it? Or, if Himmler's recall of 06/12/42 is a falsification, then why does document 6 embody the instructions contained in this recall? And most importantly, why do the GPO documents, if they are falsified, correlate so well with the statements of Hitler, Himmler, Heydrich, etc.?

Those. here it is necessary to build a whole conspiracy theory, explaining by whose malicious intent the documents and speeches of Nazi bosses found at different times in different archives line up in a whole picture. And to question the reliability of individual documents (as some authors do, counting on the ignorance of the reading public) is rather pointless.

First of all, books in German:

Collection of documents compiled by C. Madajczyk Vom Generalplan Ost zum Generalsiedlungsplan, Saur, München 1994;

— Mechthild Rössler, Sabine Schleiermacher (Hrsg.): Der "Generalplan Ost". Hauptlinien der nationalsozialistischen Planungs- und Vernichtungspolitik, Akademie, Berlin 1993;

— Rolf-Dieter Müller: Hitlers Ostkrieg und die deutsche Siedlungspolitik, Frankfurt am Main 1991;

Isabel Heinemann: Rasse, Siedlung, deutsches Blut. Das Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt der SS und die rassenpolitische Neuordnung Europas, Wallstein: Göttingen 2003 (partially available)

in General Plan "Ost" translated into Russian

On the picture: At the opening of the exhibition "Planning and building a new order in the East" on March 20, 1941, Konrad Mayer (right) addressed the leading functionaries of the Reich (from left to right): Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler, Reichsleiter Buhler, Reichsminister Todt and chief of the chief Heydrich's Imperial Security Office. Let me remind you that at the end of 2009 in Germany it was declassified and for the first time in wide access - the text of Hitler's "Plan Ost" - a project for the Germanization of Eastern Europe, that is, the mass destruction and resettlement of Russians, Poles, Ukrainians, was posted.

Considered lost for a long time, the text of the plan was found back in the 80s. But only now anyone can get acquainted with it on the website of the Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture of the Humboldt University of Berlin.

The publication of documents from the state archive was accompanied by an apology. The Council of the Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture of the Humboldt University said that it regrets that one of the former directors of the educational institution, SS member Professor Konrad Mayer, did so much to create the "General Plan East".

Now this most secret document, which only the top leaders of the Reich knew about, is available to everyone. “German weapons have conquered the eastern regions, for which there has been a struggle for centuries. The Reich sees it as its most important task to turn them into imperial territories as soon as possible, ”the document says. For a long time the text was considered lost. For the Nuremberg trials, only a six-page extract from it was obtained.

The plan was drawn up by the Imperial Security Main Office, and other versions of the plan, along with other important documents, were burned by the Nazis in 1945.

The “General Plan Vostok” with German thoroughness shows what the USSR would have expected if the Germans had won that war. And it becomes clear why the plan was kept a strict secret. "At the forefront of the front German people against Asianism and designated areas of particular importance to the Reich. In order to ensure the vital interests of the Reich in these areas, it is necessary to use not only force and organization, it is precisely there that the German population is needed. In a completely hostile environment, it should be firmly rooted in these areas, ”the text recommends.

Evgeny Kulkov, senior researcher at the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences: “They were going to deport the Lithuanians beyond the Urals and to Siberia, or kill them. It's practically the same. 85 percent of Lithuanians, 75 percent of Belarusians, 65 percent of Western Ukrainians, residents of Western Ukraine, 50 percent each from the Baltic states.”

Comparing the sources, the scientists found out that the Nazis wanted to resettle 10 million Germans in the eastern lands, and from there to evict 30 million people to Siberia. Leningrad from a city of three million was to turn into a German settlement for 200,000 inhabitants. Millions of people were to die of starvation and disease.

Hitler planned to finally destroy Russia by dividing it into many isolated parts. Based on the instructions of the Reichsführer SS, one should proceed from the settlement primarily of the following areas: Ingermanlandia (Petersburg region); Gotengau (Crimea and Kherson region, former Tavria), Memelnrav region (Bialystok region and western Lithuania). The Germanization of this area is already proceeding through the return of the Volksdeutsche.”

It is curious that the lands beyond the Urals seemed to the Nazis such a disastrous territory that they were not even considered as a matter of priority. But, fearing that the Poles exiled there would be able to form their own state, the Nazis nevertheless decided to send them to Siberia in small groups.

In this plan, it is calculated not only how many cities will have to be cleared for future colonizers, but also how much it will cost and who will bear the costs. After the war, the drafter of the document, Konrad Mayer, was acquitted by the Nuremberg Tribunal and continued to teach at German universities.

By publishing the original of this sinister plan on the Internet, German scientists express the opinion that society has not yet repented sufficiently before the victims of Nazism.

Today

Now there is no doubt that the plans of the German fascists included the liquidation of millions of Slavs. On the other hand, no reliable evidence has been found that the so-called Plan Ost existed. The allegation of a Nazi desire to exterminate the inhabitants of the European part appeared during the tribunal in Nuremberg. It is quite natural that before that time such an idea was repeatedly voiced by allied information warfare professionals, but at that time it was just propaganda.

Supporters of the idea of ​​the extermination of the Slavs by the Germans refer to several documents at once. The General Plan Ost is the main one, even though its original version has not been found to this day. Be that as it may, he was still mentioned during the only thing that was then available was only "Proposal and comments on the plan." The authorship of this document is attributed to E. Wetzel, who during the war led one of the departments of the Ministry for the Eastern Occupied Territories. In general, it was a sketch made in pencil in a regular notebook. The source that was officially published consists of four parts. The first of these was "Remarks that should be included in the Ost plan." The second section is "Remarks on Germanization" and the third one is "Solution of the Polish Question". The document ended with a part called "The question of the future treatment of the Russian population."

According to Wetzel,

sewage lands at the initial stage were to be resettled by four and a half thousand Germans. At the same time, racially undesirable local residents should have been sent to the West Siberian region. As for the Jews, they had to be exterminated even before that. In the second part, the issue of including Germans of Nordic origin in the Reich's orbit is considered, and in the next part, the Poles are named the most dangerous people. At the same time, he stressed that it was impossible to eliminate them completely to solve the problem. In the final, fourth, section, the author admires the racial type of Russians, therefore he notes the inadmissibility of their liquidation. In spite of everything, in the comments that need to be included in the Ost plan, there are many obvious inaccuracies and errors that relate directly to the activities of the department entrusted to Wetzel. All this calls into question the authenticity of this document and suggests the idea of ​​its falsification. It is possible that specialists representing the interests of the allies worked on it beforehand.

Most Western historians and scholars have not taken this document seriously for a long time and do not consider it authentic. On the other hand, it is by no means impossible to argue that the fascist plan Ost is a fiction, even though even a copy of it has not been found. Be that as it may, the monstrous deeds of the Nazis during the war had to be regulated by something. Without a doubt, Hitler's plans included the destruction of a huge number of Jews and Slavs, which numbered in the millions. Whether or not such a document as the Ost plan actually existed, against this background, becomes not so important.

General plan of the East.
(Generalplan East)
Part 1

Foreword which may not be read.
Of course, to be precise, the German phrase "Generalplan Ost" should be translated as "General Plan East". Well, or "General plan" East ". But the phrase" General plan "Ost" has become commonly used in historical circulation.
So that the reader does not hurt the eyes of an unusual name, we will use what everyone is used to. Those. "Plan Ost".

There is no consensus among historians regarding this German plan.
Historians of an anti-Nazi orientation in their works refer to this plan as the most convincing evidence that the Nazi leadership intended to carry out an unprecedented genocide in the occupied territory of our country against Slavic nations, Jews, and at the same time part of non-Slavic nationalities. And in the territories liberated in this way, resettle the German colonists.
However, these historians usually operate in their statements not with the Ost plan itself, but with some letters, notes, reflections on this plan that came from the highest Nazi officials (H. Himmler, M. Bormann), and although Himmler in his remarks directly refers to the plan Ost, nevertheless, this is no longer the text of the plan itself.

Yes, these remarks appeared at the Nuremberg trials as proof that the Nazis intended to destroy a significant part of the non-Germans, but it would still be preferable to publish the text of the Ost plan itself.

However, for a long time the text of this plan itself was not in historical documentary circulation.

It is believed that the Allies could not find the Ost plan during the preparation and during the Nuremberg trials.

And this greatly undermined the positions of anti-Nazi historians and gave the doubters grounds to put the question like this - "Couldn't find it or didn't want to find it?".
Maybe in the plan itself everything is much different and there are no atrocious intentions there. Like, yes, Germany wanted to conquer Russia and wanted to colonize these lands. And perhaps this would only benefit the peoples who inhabited the "eastern territories". So to speak, "liberate the peoples from the totalitarian brutal Stalinist regime" and give them the opportunity to live happily and satisfyingly under the shadow of the German eagle.
And, they say, Himmler, a well-known extremist, a super-radical, turned everything upside down in his notes. So, they say, after all, this is just a personal opinion of one of the leaders of Germany, with which others, including Hitler, might not agree.

But the question arises - if this is so, then why did not the defendants' lawyers then try to find this very plan, which would largely whitewash the head of the Nazi regime? Also "could not find or did not want to find?".

Anti-Soviet historians have a much richer arsenal of statements regarding the Ost plan.

The shortest argument is "Such a plan never existed, and Himmler's notes are fake." Well, God knows what we can agree on. Anything can be refuted with this argument. Even the Bible. Or Koran.
I ask those who think so, do not read below. It is simply pointless to argue with people who hold such an opinion, since everything will be reduced to bickering like "you shaved me, and I cut your hair." And not a step further.

A more common argument - Yes, there was such a plan, but it cannot be considered a document of state planning. Like, there is no signature (visa, resolution) of Hitler on it, no state seal and no documents developed and brought to the attention of the executors as part of the implementation of the plan, or at least there are no plans for specific events. These are simply their own reflections and proposals of individual Nazis, standing on the lower rungs of the party hierarchy.

Well, what is the answer to this.
First, the time when this plan appeared. Summer 1942. The Wehrmacht has just recovered from the cuffs received from the Red Army near Moscow, Leningrad, Rostov. The summer offensive has not yet begun. Those. there is still no complete and final victory over the USSR. And without it, specific planning for the development of "eastern lands" is simply impossible. Neither in terms of localities, nor in terms of timing, nor in terms of finances. Only advance forward planning is possible.

Secondly, Hitler did not personally sign anything at all. For example, under the plan "Barbarossa" his signature is not. Under the directive "On special jurisdiction in the Barbarossa region" too.
In Germany senior officials states rarely bothered to pick up a pen and issue a visa. As a rule, under the documents is "On behalf of ................ Reinecke".

On the other hand, a certain professor, Dr. K. Mayer, who had the rank of SS Oberführer, drew up a plan. It is hard to believe that this paper is simply the fruit of personal reflections and initiatives far from the highest rank in the hierarchy of the then Germany. SS-Oberführer is a rank above a colonel, but below a major general. However, this is a highly qualified specialist (professor, doctor). All this gives reason to believe that Meyer drew up a plan on behalf of his superiors. Himmler in particular. Or, in any case, proposals that have found full support and approval. Hence the interest of the Reichsführer SS in the plan and such extensive notes on it.

So by the summer of 1942 it was possible to draw up only a framework, so to speak, draft plan. Well, or a long-term plan. A kind of tentative outline of what and how will be done in the East after the victorious end of the war.

So let each reader decide for himself to what extent the East plan is a working plan, and to what extent it is a declaration of intent. The intentions of this plan are ominous.

And let the reader take into account the following lines from Hitler's book "My Struggle":

	“We National Socialists are picking up where we left off six centuries ago. We are stopping the eternal German expansion into the south and west of Europe and turning our gaze to the countries in the east. Finally, we are breaking with the colonial and commercial politics of the pre-war era and moving on to the land politics of the future. If we think about the lands, then today in Europe again we must bear in mind first of all only Russia and the border states subject to it."
	"Wir Nationalsozialisten setzen dort an, wo man vor sechs Jahrhunderten endete. Wir stoppen den ewigen Germanenzug nach dem Suden und Westen Europas und weisen den Blick nach dem Land im Osten. Wir schlie?en endlich ab mit der Colonial- und Handelspolitik der Vorkriegszeit und gehen ueber zur Bodenpolitik der Zukunft Wenn wir aber heute in Europa von neuem Grund und Boden reden, konnen wir in erster Line nur an Russland und die ihm Untertanen Randstaaten denken."

This, perhaps, can be called a declaration of intent. And the Ost plan is already concrete planning. After all, it indicates the terms of colonization, the required costs, the number of participants subject to colonization of the area.

From the author. And what is curious is that anti-Soviet historians are shaking with might and main with the notorious Soviet military plan of attacking Germany "Thunder", as the most convincing and indisputable proof of Stalin's aggressive intentions, his plans to attack dear good Germany, and then take over the whole old Europe. But these few pages, sketched out by the deputy chief operational management On the very eve of the war (May 15, 1941), none of the Soviet top military leaders even read the General Staff Major General Vasilevsky.

The Thunder plan does not in any way draw on equality with the Ost plan, but go ahead, they consider it an argument.

Whatever it was, but the Bundesarchiv published the text of the Ost plan and everyone can read it - http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2566853 .

I should not post the text of the plan in German here in this article. Who needs it, let him go through the link and download it. This is done very simply.

I do not dare to post here the translation of the plan into Russian. I am not the best translator, and I just do not want everything in the criticism of this article to be reduced to petty nit-picking about the interpretation of a particular phrase. However, if one of the readers really needs this translation of mine, but he has no other options for translating, please contact me. I'll help.

So, let's get acquainted with the Ost plan and see what it really was. It is difficult to read this plan, since the Germans scanned the third or fourth typewritten copy. Translating into Russian is even more difficult, since some terms and phrases are used that either do not exist in Russian, or they are simply incomprehensible to us. How many translators, so many translation options, although the deep essence of this plan is unchanged.

And before proceeding to the consideration and analysis of the plan, which was published in June 1942, we note that in its text there are references indicating that before the development of this version there were at least three documents concerning the development of "eastern regions". This is

"Submission dated 8/30/1940",
"General plan Ost from 15.07.1941" and
"General Order of the Reich Commissioner for the Strengthening of the German Nation No. 7/11 dated 11/6/40".

So the 1942 Ost Plan was not the only document considering aspects of Hitler's Eastern policy. And it wasn't the first plan. Most likely, the plan for 42 years was created on the basis of previous outlines and the plan for 41 years. This should be kept in mind.

End of preface.

So, Plan Ost 1942.

In total it has 100 pages and one map (unfortunately it is not attached to the plan). Organizationally, the plan is divided into three parts.

Part A. Requirements for the future organization of settlement.
Part B. Overview of expenses for the development of the annexed eastern regions and their structure.
Part C. Demarcation of settlements in the occupied eastern regions and general features of development.

Compiled by SS-Oberführer Prof. Dr. Konrad Mayer and submitted in June 1942.

Part A.

In general, in the initial section "A", which outlines the general principles of land development in the East, nothing of the sort brutal is imperceptible. The principles of the development of new lands are simply stated. In rural areas, it is proposed to give German peasants with land in the "eastern regions" in the form of a fief. Those. the German peasant seems to own the land, but on certain conditions. First, he is given land for 7 years (temporary flax), then, subject to successful management, flax becomes hereditary, and finally, after 20 years, this land becomes his property. At the same time, the peasant pays certain amounts to the state for the received flax. Something like a state loan in the form of a land plot, for which he gradually pays off

Even somewhat similar to the development in the USSR in the sixties and seventies of its Far East. The willing citizens were allocated land, a house, livestock, inventory. ( V.Yu.G. The similarity of names is funny - there is the East and here the East).

Only a few phrases in this section are alarming:

The first is that the development and settlement of new lands in the East should initially be led by the Reichsfuehrer SS G. Himmler, who at the same time acts as the "Reichskommissar for the strengthening of the German people" (Reichkommissar fuer die festigung deutsche Volkstume).
But it's still, let's say, "not a crime." You never know who the government can entrust a purely economic task.

But here is a phrase from the very beginning of the text: "German weapons finally won for the country the eastern regions, eternally disputed for centuries."

I don’t know how anyone, but I understand this phrase like this - there can be no talk of any statehood within Poland and the USSR. In any case, in the territories of the USSR west of Moscow. A kind of wild territory that the German people must master for their needs.

I’ll make a reservation right away that the Ost plan of 1942 practically does not affect the territories belonging to the RSFSR, with the exception of the North-West of the RSFSR (Leningrad, Pskov, Novgorod and Kalinin regions). All attention is focused on the eastern regions of Poland, Ukraine and the Baltic states.

Retreat
When Germany occupied France, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, these countries retained their statehood. They received the status of occupied states. All state structures were preserved there, from municipalities to governments and presidents. Of course, loyal to Germany. The former administrative division of the countries was preserved, as were all other public authorities, including the court, the prosecutor's office and the police. Those. Germany did not encroach on their national territory (with the exception of certain regions).
But Czechoslovakia and Poland have lost the right to be states. Poland was turned into a so-called. "General-Governorship" (General-Gouvernement), Czechoslovakia was torn into two parts. One part became the state of Slovakia, the second became the "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia" (Protektorat Boehmen und Maehren).

Looking ahead a little (III. Creation of an administrative division, p. 17), I note that the Ost plan did not intend to preserve Russian statehood in any form or in any way. There is not a single word about it at all.
All, I emphasize, all Western territories former USSR, including the Baltic states and the territories of Poland that went to the USSR after September 1939, were either to be turned into regions of the Greater German state (the so-called "Gau"), or to be split into separate regions headed by the German civil administration. Like all of Poland.

From the author. That's it! All the leaflets, proclamations, newspapers that were published in abundance during the war years by Vlasov and KONR (Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia), and which wrote that the Vlasov army and Germany are allies who are fighting together for the liberation of Russia from the Bolsheviks - it's just arrogant and shameless lies. The Germans did not intend to create any Russian allied state of Germany either during the war or after it. This clearly and unequivocally sets out the plan of Ost.
Vlasov's subtle hints that, let the Germans help us liberate Russia from the Bolsheviks, and only there we ......, can only convince fools and deeply naive people.
It was not for this that Hitler destroyed the precious lives of German soldiers in battles, so that later on a silver platter to present to the Russians "a free democratic state without Bolsheviks and Jews." No, Hitler fought for "living space for the German people."

End of retreat.

And here is the phrase:

Pay attention to what I have underlined in the above quotation. It turns out that only exclusively Germans can own land in the occupied eastern lands.

And one more phrase:

And this phrase can be interpreted in any way. And even in a positive way for the Nazis. Well, it seems like a requirement to develop new lands at the expense of local resources.
But after all, Poles, Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians live on these lands. The Balts, finally. They feed from this land. And there is no excess of it in the same Ukraine, in the Baltic states. This is not the Far East, where even at the beginning of the 21st century, hundreds of square kilometers of fertile land are empty.

And now it turns out that only the Germans have the right to own land in these areas. And how and what will those who lived here for centuries feed on? In the first sections of Plan Ost, these questions are not covered in any way. As if these are completely free territories. But with a "mass of value" that came from nowhere.

All of the above applies to rural areas and agricultural land.

In the same section "A" we are talking about cities in the "eastern regions". In the very first sentence of subsection "II. Urban settlement" we come across the term "Germanization" (Eindeutschung), which is not yet very clear and which can be interpreted very broadly. From understanding as a complete replacement of the local population of cities by Germans, to a synonym for "inculcating German culture."
As well as the phrase "Aufbau der Staedte des Ostens" can be translated as "building cities in the East", "restoration ...", "device ...", structuring ...", "perestroika .... Well, and more with five options. So far, it is only clear that the population of Soviet cities is waiting for the most serious changes.

From the author. Those who wish to interpret the text of the plan in favor of the Nazis have every opportunity to do so. Especially if we proceed from the legal principle "presumption of innocence". That is, if guilt is not proven, then the accused is innocent.
And yet it is clear that before you settle some, you need to do something with others. Move out, relocate, condense. Finally destroy. Or maybe vice versa. Let's say, build new exemplary neighborhoods nearby, showing how cozy, comfortable, clean, and cultured a city can be. Yes, and give money to local residents in construction.
And what actually happened in the occupied territories of our country can be attributed simply to the inevitable cruelties of war.

However, here is the clarification of the German policy of settling cities. It is unequivocally stated: "Persons of alien nationalities in cities cannot be landowners." (II. Urban Settlement, Special Definitions, point 2 on page 14).

From the author. It would be interesting to know the reaction to this point of the Ost plan of those Latvians who today applaud the former Latvian SS men. After all, they fought to ensure that the Ost plan was carried out. Including in the Baltics. Looking ahead, I will say that the Nazis intended to Germanize part of the Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians (that is, deprive them of their nationality and turn them into Germans), and evict part of them.

Don't believe me, gentlemen? Did I translate incorrectly? Well, here's the paragraph in German:

But after all, all real estate (industrial and public buildings, residential buildings, etc.) in cities belongs to someone. Some people live and work there. But what about the "sacred right of private property" so zealously proclaimed and actually observed at all times in European countries, including Germany?

It seems that the Germans were not going to apply this principle to the "eastern territories" in relation to the local population.

Note that when the Germans settled in Soviet cities, it was supposed to give them real estate for free. At whose expense? Throwing out into the street those who lived and worked there before the arrival of the Wehrmacht? Or will the German state still pay the former owners of real estate, and then distribute it to its citizens for free? We will return to this issue later.

In general, this subsection (Urban settlement) does not stand out with anything interesting. Basically, the methods of attracting Germans to populate cities in the East are outlined. Mainly by creating favorable conditions for German voluntary immigrants, both in terms of providing housing and household plots, and creating conditions for handicraft activities, work at enterprises. Due to what and whom it is not deciphered.

More interesting in part A is the subsection "III. Settlement and management".

I have already mentioned above that the Ost plan did not envisage preserving Russian statehood in any form and in any variant. All the western territories of the former USSR, including the Baltic states and the territories of Poland that were ceded to the USSR after September 1939, must either be turned into regions of the Greater German state (the so-called "Gau"), or be divided into separate regions headed by the German civil administration. This is clearly stated at the very beginning of this subsection.

One can draw the first conclusion from the plan Ost -

It is not supposed to preserve any independent state or states in the "eastern regions".

Simply put, there will be no independent Ukraine with a sovereign hetman, no Lithuania with a Sejm, no Latvia with a president, no Estonia, no Belarusian state, much less small Russian states such as the Pskov Republic, the Novgorod Principality, the Tula Governor General, the Tambov Protectorate ,.....
And there will be German hows. Or just small areas under the supervision of German administrators.

The German administration of the eastern regions of the Ost plan sets the main tasks of "Germanization and security."

From the author. It is curious that some concern is immediately expressed in the Ost plan.
According to the plan, the general administrative management of the "eastern regions" will be entrusted to the Reichsstathalters (governors, chief presidents, heads of civil administration), for whom the main thing is to ensure peace and order in the controlled territories.
At the same time, the so-called "Reichskommissars for the strengthening of the German people" will operate in these same territories, whose main task is to "Germanize" these territories. Those. creation of the most favorable conditions for the Germans moving to the "eastern regions" in order to develop them. This "may objectively require certain sacrifices." And interaction between both types of administration is required.
It is easy to guess what the author of the plan means. It is unlikely that the local population will meekly cede to the settlers the land, houses, enterprises that they will receive through the Reichskommissars. There may be riots.

I have already said above that the Ost plan did not imply the preservation, or, if you like, the restoration of the statehood not only of Russians, but also of Ukrainians, Crimean Tatars. And also the Balts. Don't believe?

Well, here's a quote from page 18:

The underscores are not mine. So in the original text. What follows from this passage? And above all, the fact that the Germans settled in Gotengau, Ingermanland and Memel-Narev are already considered local population, and the Russians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Tatars and Ukrainians surrounding them are considered as a completely alien environment. And here there are few conventional means of state influence. The plan requires the active participation of all Germans settled in these territories.
We also note that the phrase "to provide it for a long time biological composition" indicates that the Germans should not mix with the nations inhabiting these areas.

Reference.

Gotengau. The Germans included the entire Crimea and the southern regions of Ukraine, including Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk, Kherson, and Mykolaiv regions, to this region. The Gotengau area is shown on the map on the right.

Ingria. The Germans attributed the entire north-west of Russia to this region. From Leningrad to the south, almost to Moscow itself. The region of Ingria is shown on the map on the left.
Memel-Narew Region. An area that includes almost all of Lithuania, Latvia and part of Estonia, part of Belarus and even a piece of Poland. This area is shown on the map on the right.

Here, on pages 18-19, it is emphasized that the main tasks of managing these areas are the Germanization of territories, the resettlement of Germans on it and the provision of border security. All other administrative tasks are secondary.

This is the main idea of ​​the Ost plan. In the future, it is planned to develop German settlements into entire Germanized regions.

In the same subsection III, it is proposed that the functions of the "Reichskommissar for the strengthening of the German people" be assigned to the Reichsfuehrer SS (G. Himmler) during the settlement and Germanization of the eastern regions. These areas are withdrawn from the former administrative-territorial composition and are completely subject to the jurisdiction of the Reichsführer SS, including the issuance of special laws for the Germanized areas, the judicial and executive power in them.

From the author. It is well known in what ways and methods the SS solved the tasks assigned to them. And it is no coincidence that the SS, as an organization by the Nuremberg Tribunal, was recognized as criminal, and membership in it itself was a criminal offense. But maybe many years of massive anti-German propaganda dominates me?
May be. Although, there are too many bloody traces left from the activities of the SS in the form of a huge number of documents, indisputable facts and objective material evidence.
Again, perhaps the SS did mischief in other areas, but here it simply performed administrative and economic functions without any atrocity?
May be. And therefore, we read the plan Ost further.

And only after the tasks of Germanization and settlement by Germans in one or another "eastern region" are fully completed, is it possible to join the German state and the effect of all-German laws on this territory.

Why, during the development of the territory, some special rules and norms established by the Reichsführer SS, and not German laws, should act on it, remains unanswered.

In the office of the Reichsfuhrer SS, a Reichskommissariat should be created, which will deal with all issues of development of the "eastern regions".

The Commissariat was to consist of the following departments
1.) Settlement and planning policies.
2.) Selection of settlers and use of settlers.
3.) Carrying out the settlement.
4.) Administration and financing.

Each settlement administrative-territorial formation is led by a Markhauptmann, who reports directly to the Reichsführer SS.

From the author. In German texts concerning the Ost general plan, the term "Marka" is used as a generic name for large territories that will be Germanized, which has many translations into Russian - from "postage stamp" to "Ostmark" (Austria). In most translations, this term is either not translated at all, but simply written in Russian as "mark", or the completely ridiculous name "margraviate" is used.

Based on the many studied German texts, the author believes that the German word "Mark" in this context should be understood as some kind of administrative-territorial formation of a fairly large size. Approximately, like our autonomous republic, region. But the Germans use the word Mark to designate such administrative-territorial formations that they cannot yet or do not consider it necessary to name definitely.

For example, Austria, which before joining Germany was called in German "Oesterreich", after the Anschluss became known as Ostmark. Not "Gau", as the regions have always been part of Germany, namely "Mark".

Therefore, when I encounter the word Mark in the text, I translate, in my opinion, more correctly - "administrative-territorial formation", although longer.

Markhauptmann carries out its activities through the Office, which is headed by Amtsmann.

The administrative-territorial formation is subdivided into districts (kreis). The Kreis is ruled by the Kreisshauptmann, who is subordinate to the Markhauptmann.

Further in the text of the plan, it is briefly described what each department of the commissariat and departments of administrative-territorial formations and territories should be engaged in. These are all purely organizational and managerial activities that are not of significant interest.

Only the paragraph describing the tasks of the Administration and Finance Departments is curious. Let's quote:

The emphasis in bold is by the author. It follows that the peoples who for centuries inhabited the "eastern regions" of the Ost plan are considered only as a foreign labor force. If we take into account the previously cited lines from the Ost plan that only Germans have the exclusive right to own land, then the fate of Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Balts, Crimean Tatars is drawn. t.

A second conclusion can be drawn from the Ost plan -

The peoples living in the "eastern regions" are assigned the role of farm laborers on lands that henceforth belong exclusively to persons of German nationality.

For the administration of justice in the settlement administrative-territorial formations (that is, regions) krais (that is, districts), courts are created. The President of the Court, respectively, Markhauptmann, Kreisshauptmann or Amtsmann. Members of the court from among the German settlers living in the area. There is no question that at least one of the members of the court should be a lawyer. Whom such courts have the right to judge, either exclusively settlers, or everyone who is on the territory, is not mentioned.
But the phrase "The courts make decisions based on the basic laws of the SS and the law in force for administrative-territorial formations" is alarming.
Unfortunately, the author does not have documents setting out the "basic laws of the SS" at the disposal of the author. Therefore, we confine ourselves to this short remark. Let the reader decide for himself what this means, based on his knowledge and beliefs.

These provisions end with Part A.

Part B

Part B begins with a statement of the requirement of the Reichsführer SS to determine how much the program for the development of the "eastern regions" can do without financial and other material support from the state, since other tasks facing Germany are very large and require huge expenses.

Referring to the tabular data and calculations given below in the plan, the author of the plan believes that the economic condition of the annexed eastern regions will not allow these areas to be populated by the German population and developed without the help of the state. It is impossible to rely fully or mainly on local economic resources.

From the author. Naturally. Do not forget that Germany from the second half of the XIX century has become one of the most developed economically, technically, scientifically and culturally in Europe. The Soviet Union lagged behind in all respects at times. But this was not the fault of the Bolsheviks. Russia until 1914 was predominantly an agrarian country with a very poorly developed (in comparison with Germany) industry, a very low level of education of the population. Let's add here 10 years of continuous wars that have swept through the most populated regions of the country, social upheavals, alteration of borders, destruction of a single economic and financial space.
Therefore, the economic and industrial power of Germany by 1941 far exceeded the USSR. A lot was done in our country from 1924 to 1941 in industry, in education, in the economy, and in science. But in 17 years it is simply unrealistic and impossible to make up for the almost century-long lag. And I don’t think that if the Democrats, and not the Bolsheviks, had won the Civil War, Russia would have come to 1941 in a better condition.
And there is no doubt that Hitler would have attacked Russia under any Russian political system. His main idea was to seize "living space for the Germans" and specifically in Russia. And the Bolshevik government has nothing to do with it. He writes about this clearly and unambiguously in his book Mein Kampf.

In this part of the plan, a very remarkable phrase is found (p. 32), which can be interpreted in different ways. Here is this phrase in both Russian and German (so that I can avoid accusations of mistranslation):

From the author. Something like Lomonosov's phrase "The power of Russia will grow with Siberia." But what fate does this plan prepare for the Russians, Ukrainians, and Balts? So far, the Ost plan has passed over this question in silence, except for slipping phrases such as the one that says directly that only the Germans can own land in the East.
However, it is possible that in this regard we will not find anything about the fate of local peoples. Personally, I have enough information that the development of the eastern regions was entrusted to the Reichsführer SS. And I believe that Himmler's instructions on how to deal with the indigenous population can be set out in completely different documents.
But after all, this article is intended to highlight the content of the Ost plan, and not to convince readers of the brutal intentions of the Nazis. Let the reader draw his own conclusions. Of course, I am not a dispassionate and detached researcher. But the reader can simply not read my comments.

Table I.1 (page 34 of the plan) given in this part of the Ost plan shows that the infrastructure (speaking modern language) "eastern regions" was supposed to spend a lot of money. So huge that not only national, but also regional, municipal and private funds should be attracted for this.
It makes no sense to give here the figures of monetary costs, since they do not tell the modern reader anything. Today, the scale of prices and incomes is completely different. Let us only note that large expenditures were envisaged for the creation of a road network, the development of railways, water supply and sewerage, electrification, the creation of a network of cultural institutions, the development of cities and industry.

It turns out that for a certain number of years, the so-called. the "eastern regions" were to be radically transformed and developed.
But so far the question remains open - for whom all these benefits will be created at the expense of the German state. Exclusively for the Germans, or for everyone who lived before the war and will live (and will it?) Ingermanland, Gotengau and the Memel-Narev region.

True, there is a curious phrase:

From the author. Those. in the "eastern regions" a new Germany should be created, where everything, starting with the environment, including roads, agriculture, utilities, industry should be on the German model and create complete comfort for the Germans who settled here.

And what does the Ost plan say about those who lived in these parts before the beginning of Germanization? But nothing. Absolutely nothing. Not a word about their fate. There is no talk of national relations, of interaction. What will be their status, what they will be entitled to, what duties they will have to Germany. As if it is a completely empty, neglected and unexploited land. And that doesn't happen. There is an assumption that by the time the colonization of the "eastern regions" begins, no one from the former population will really live there.

The interesting term "Altreich" is also beginning to appear, that is, the "Old State", or, if you like, the "Old Reich".

According to the Ost plan, a road network and a railway network should be created in the developed areas, not inferior in density to the road network of East Prussia (obviously, in this region of Germany, the road network was exemplary).

The same with shipping.

But in the paragraph where it is said about the creation of waterways (navigation) in the "eastern regions", it refers exclusively to the rivers Vistula, Warta, the canals of the Oder-Warta, Brache-Nitz. And nothing about the Dnieper and other rivers on the territory of the USSR. Consequently, parts of the territory of Poland are also subject to Germanization.

Quote from page 35:

	The settlement of areas previously given to Poland means an almost complete re-creation, settlement and settlement of areas belonging to the German state before 1918 and a deep reconstruction, which concerns at least half of the territory. The purpose of the settlement was set by the General Order of the Reichskommissar for the strengthening of the German nationality No. 7/11 of 11/6/40. "
The same quote in German:
	"Die Besiedlung der frueher kongresspolnischen Gebiete bedeutet einen fast vollstandigen Neuaufbau, die Besiedlung und Bereinigung der bis 1918 zum deutschen Reich gehorigen Gebiete einen tiefgehenden Umbau, der zumindest die Halfte des Bestehenden beruhrt. 11 vom 26.11.40 des Reichskommissars fur Festigung deutschen Volkstume gegeben".

From the author. Thus, Poland, as a state, albeit a puppet like Slovakia, is not envisaged by the Ost plan at all. Territories that before the First World War belonged to Germany and Austria, and as a result of it were given to the revived Poland, this plan is subject to a deep reconstruction with the complete reconstruction of the German infrastructure and settlement by the Germans.
There is no place for Poles in Poland! But hatred of Russia clouded the Polish mind so much that they agreed to disappear from the face of the Earth, but not to have a Polish state loyal to Russia. Apparently their national pride is offended by the fact that the Poles as a nation now exist only thanks to the Soviet Union, and the state of Poland exists only thanks to the Russian Bolsheviks. Lenin and Stalin in particular.
Do you think that the Germans resigned themselves to the loss of lands east of the Oder and Neisse? Here is part of the map from the modern German edition. Gray shading on the map shows the "German territories" that today are "under Polish control" and "under Russian control". You can be sure, Poles and Germans will show you their bill, as they already did once (in 1939).
Do you think that the French and the British will defend your independence and integrity? In 1939 they simply betrayed you.

The Ost plan assumes full electrification of the developed eastern regions. For this, power plants of all types will be built, from wind turbines to hydroelectric power plants. The coverage of territories with electricity supply should reach the level of the Brandenburg-Pomeranian region.

Rural development involves:
a) creation and equipment of agricultural production,
b) creation of enterprises and institutions of consumer services for the population,
c) creation of production for the processing of agricultural products,
d) establishment of rural cultural institutions,
e) ensuring that other rural housing needs are met.

But all this is exclusively for the Germans, who must build a young Germany here.

With a very careful and detailed description of the development of agriculture and the creation of infrastructure for it, the development of industry in the eastern regions is given only one paragraph, which briefly states that this will require an additional 650 thousand workers, while the creation of one job will cost 6- 10 thousand marks.

It can be assumed that the Germans did not plan to seriously develop industry in the East. Even for your own benefit. Actually, this is understandable - agrarian areas are always in strong and direct dependence on industrialized areas. Obviously, the new Germany in the East was to become an agrarian appendage to the old Germany.

According to the plan, the cities in the east are supposed to be used only as centers of education (institutes, technical schools), cultural institutions (theaters, concert halls, large hospitals), consumer services (again, the rural population), but not as centers of large-scale industry.
Moreover, educational establishments and institutions are invited to build and organize by the German settlers themselves as needed. The old state will allocate funds only for the most necessary facilities.
It is easy to guess that educational institutions (exclusively for Germans) in the eastern regions will train mainly agricultural specialists (agronomists, veterinarians).

Finally, the planners catch on (p. 40). The transformations of the eastern regions are so grandiose that the Bolsheviks with their five-year plans are far behind them. In twenty years it is supposed to do what the Soviet leaders, having mobilized the entire Soviet people for socialist transformations, hoped to do in half a century, or even in a whole century.
Where to get so many workers to create a new Germany? In addition, the east will require huge capacities for the production of building materials (brick, concrete, asphalt, roofing materials, etc.). And it will require urgent development of the railway network, both normal gauge and narrow gauge, in order to be able to transport building materials from factories to construction sites.
And all the people involved in construction must somehow be organized, trained, fed, supplied, and provided with lodging for the night.

In a word, in order for the German peasants to move to the eastern regions and begin to engage in agricultural production, it is first necessary to create an infrastructure for them, in modern terms.

From the author. Let me remind you that the industry of building materials in the USSR at that time was not yet sufficiently developed. For example, the entire Soviet Union produced cement by 1941 only 14% of the German production. So the authors of the Ost plan did not have to rely on captured Soviet cement plants.

But so far the plan does not provide answers to these questions. It only indicates issues that need to be addressed.

1. Financing within the framework of the regular state budget.
2. Financing through emergency budget amounts.
3. Use of indemnities or reparations from the defeated countries.

From the author. And what a convenient source of funding. Hitler acted quite wisely, preserving the statehood of European countries. Like, you, gentlemen, solve your problems of life inside the country yourself, live as best you can. And collect money for us yourself, take funds from your own citizens, your own entrepreneurs. And we will only suck the juices out of you and keep an eye on you.

However, if you look a little lower in the comments on sources of funding, it turns out that the Ost plan (p. 47 "Zu 3.") is primarily intended to use not money, inventory or materials from the defeated countries of Europe, but human labor. And specifically - prisoners of war, civilian prisoners and even persons arrested by the police in an administrative manner. I do not think that such labor can be called anything other than slave labor.
Another option is envisaged (in the same paragraph) for using cheap labor from European countries in the East - "Universal labor service in exchange for the abolition of martial law."

From the author. That is, we will somewhat loosen the noose of the occupation regime on your neck, and you, European citizens (each of you), please be kind enough to work in the "eastern regions" for some time for nothing in the interests of great Germany. If we proceed from the Hitlerite system of labor service, which existed in Germany itself for the Germans, then this is about 6-12 months.

A third conclusion can be drawn from the Ost plan -

For the Germanization of the "eastern regions" it was supposed to use the forced labor of prisoners of war, civilian prisoners and other citizens from the occupied countries of Europe.

From the author. But what about the observance of the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of 1929? Germany ratified this convention already under Hitler. The Hitlerite leadership did not make any statements that they would not apply it to prisoners from European countries. Under this convention, prisoners must be released and returned home as soon as possible after the end of the war with a particular country.
It turns out that Germany interpreted this convention as it wanted and did not care too much about its observance even in relation to "civilized countries".

4. Financing at the expense of income or the values ​​themselves of the occupied eastern regions.

This method of financing stands out in particular. Therefore, I will quote the source again as on German, and translated into Russian:

In other words, all material and financial values ​​in the territory of the eastern regions, which the Germans wish to take for themselves, become the property of the German state and are used as one of the sources of financing for the program for the development of the East.

What does Plan Ost mean by "special property" in the eastern regions?
a) All land and forest that can be profitably exploited.
b) All other real estate.
c) Proceeds from the sale of real estate.
d) Other property, especially industrial plants.
(V.Yu.G. Literal translation! Point c) on page 48).
e) Proper income from real estate (renting, letting, profits).
f) Deposits and depreciation of settlers.
g) Businesses and estates outside of populated areas that are needed for development.
(V.Yu.G. That is, from those areas that were "unfortunate" to become areas of Germanization, robbed
the property that will be required for inhabited areas).
h) Income from the use of the labor force of foreign peoples and other available labor
(V.Yu.G. Simply put, forced laborers will not be paid, and this money goes to the income of Germany and
used as a source of further funding).

Points c, e, f concern German settlers, to whom the state does not give possession of real estate and movables for free, but sells, leases, gives as fief possession, and for which the settlers must gradually pay the government. And the government uses the budget revenues from these operations for the further development of the eastern regions.

But paragraphs a, b, d, g, h are just an open appropriation by Germany of someone else's property and funds. In the language of the criminal code, "robbery, i.e. open theft of someone else's property."

A fourth conclusion can be drawn from the Ost plan -

All material and financial values ​​in the "Eastern regions" that Germany desires become the property of the German state and are used in the interests of the German settlers.

From the author. This is the huge difference between the occupation of Western countries, and the occupation of the USSR and Poland. In the West, Germany retains the statehood of these countries and does not encroach on their state and private property entirely, limiting itself to reparations. In the East, statehood is completely liquidated, all, well, or almost all property passes into the hands of the Germans and is used purely in their interests. A robbery that history has not known since the Middle Ages. And robbery at the state level. No wonder G. Goering once said: "I intend to rob, and rob effectively." But these were just words, albeit one of the top leaders of the country. This is documented here as well. The Nazis reduced the German state to the level of a criminal.

5. Financing by attracting private financial capital under the guarantees of the special property of the "eastern regions".

From the author. Simply put, the state takes loans from private German banks secured by property stolen in the East. Thus, the Nazis also wanted to make the German bankers accomplices in the eastern robbery.

6. Financing of some particularly attractive objects, especially in the field of cultural construction, by some organizations and institutions of the old state.

This probably means that, for example, the creation of sports grounds, stadiums, etc. can take over the society "Strength through joy", and the financing of concert halls, theaters, respectively, artistic associations and societies.

7. Lending to the created "eastern regions" by the state or German Gau (regions).

Again, on the security of "acquired property and valuables" in the eastern regions.

The table of distribution of funding published in the plan is replete with figures that are hardly worth citing here. Let us only note that, in general, 45.7 billion marks are supposed to be spent on the development of the "eastern space".
Of these, for the development of forestry and in general for the cultivation of the area, 3.3 billion.
7.8 billion for roads, railways, electrification, creation of water supply and sewerage networks.
13.5 billion marks for the development of agriculture.

But for the entire industry, only 5.2 billion marks. Moreover, here we have in mind, first of all, enterprises for the processing of agricultural products, factories for the production of building materials, enterprises for the extraction of minerals. The development of heavy industry, science-intensive industries is not envisaged at all. This once again confirms that the development of the "eastern space" set the main goal of becoming an agrarian appendage of old Germany.

From the author. You can't deny Hitler's foresight here. New Germany, being completely and completely dependent industrially on Old Germany, will never, under any circumstances, aspire to become an independent state. Hitler did not want to repeat the mistakes made in his time by Great Britain. I mean the separation from the British Empire of its overseas colony, which we now know as the United States. English settlers at the end of the 18th century, having become economically and industrially independent of the mother country, decided that they could live independently and not be subject to the English crown.

15.4 billion magrok is provided for the development of the urban economy. This is more than agriculture. However, the role of cities in the "eastern regions" is reduced only to the role of administrative centers and consumer service centers, again for the rural population. It's just that the cost of events is higher, and profits from cities are not expected.

These are all general tabular figures. Much more curious comments to the table. That is, an explanation of what and how will be done for each item. And here it turns out that the creators of the plan understand the term "financing" somewhat differently than ordinary economists.

For example, under the "Forestry" section, funding refers to the free labor of prisoners of war and cheap foreign labor, which we wrote about above. Those. not billions of marks will be spent on afforestation, logging and timber processing, but simply slave labor is measured in billions of marks.

But for work on the cultivation of the area (liquidation of ravines, drainage, drainage of swamps, construction of ponds, dams, watering of arid places, etc.), not only the use of prisoners of war and foreign labor (within the framework of indemnities and labor conscription), but also involvement in these activities and German settlers. First of all, in the form of horse-drawn duty (provide horses and carts for transporting materials), and, if necessary, personal labor participation.

From the author. I ask again - what about the observance of the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of 1929? It demands that after the end of the war, the prisoners should be immediately returned home. But the Ost plan is designed for 20-30 years. The conclusion is that here too Germany did not intend to adhere to the convention regarding prisoners of war from European countries.

The fact that prisoners of war are supposed to be used for a long time is indicated by the point of financing cultural construction (theaters, concert halls, sports facilities, etc.). The commentary to the plan indicates that cultural construction expenditures are not a priority, but they will take a long time. At the same time, it was again said that the labor of prisoners of war would be used here.

All road construction is financed by using the free labor of prisoners of war, and, if necessary, the labor of low-paid foreign workers.

The construction of highways of national importance (known as autobahns, which the Germans are proud of today) and in the eastern regions had to be entirely financed from the state budget. Apparently, the German road-building firms with the German labor force also had to deal with the construction itself.

With regard to the industry of the eastern regions, the plan proposes that the industrial firms of old Germany, proceeding from their own interests and with their own money, set up subsidiaries, which can become independent only in the distant future.

It is easy to guess that the industrial giants of old Germany needed only raw materials and products of primary processing (iron and steel, coke, round wood, cement, non-ferrous metal castings, vegetable fiber, etc.). The manufacture of final products (machines, devices, inventory, fabrics, clothing, furniture, etc.) they will surely leave behind, since only the final product of production brings the greatest profit. Once again it is confirmed that the eastern regions, even when inhabited by Germans, will remain an agrarian appendage of the old Reich and a supplier of fuel and raw materials. Of course, in terms of everyday life and conveniences for the life of the Germans, the standard of living in the west and in the east should not differ.

The fact that Germany, in the development of the "eastern regions", will primarily rely on forced labor of foreign labor is more and more clearly manifested as the Ost plan is read.

Here is page 61, paragraph 2

As I said above, the program of "development of the eastern regions" should be completed in 25-30 years. It is curious that the drafters of the plan use the Soviet method of long-term planning. Drawing up a calendar schedule for the creation of "special regions" on the territory of our country, they also plan activities for five-year plans. Those. every five years, certain tasks in each area must be completed in stages (cultivation of the area, road construction, creation of a transport system and an electricity supply system, agricultural development, urban and industrial development, cultural construction, etc.).

And if we abstract from the one for whom all this is intended, it turns out that in 30 years the territory of the western regions of the USSR in terms of living standards will almost in no way be inferior to the old Germany. It would seem that these areas are destined for unprecedented development and prosperity, if not for some alarming moments, which I already wrote about above. The destinies of those peoples who live on these lands for centuries are completely ignored. As if these areas are generally deserted and deserted. And it is only briefly mentioned (but clearly, unequivocally and specifically) that all land and real estate in the "eastern regions" can only belong to the Germans. And also the fact that in the development of areas the labor of prisoners of war (Kriegsgefanden) and cheap foreign labor (billige fremdvoelkische Arbeitkraefte) will be widely used.

In general, the implementation of the program for the development of the eastern territories will require:
* in the first and second five-year plans 450 thousand workers,
*in the third five-year plan 300 thousand workers,
* in the fourth five-year plan 150 thousand workers,
* In the fifth five-year plan, 90,000 workers.

If we turn to the Ost plan regarding the sources of labor, it turns out that German workers will be used only for the construction of a network of state highways (autobahns), and German settlers to a small extent for the work of cultivating the area (reclamation, draining swamps, watering arid lands and etc.). Consequently, most of these tens of thousands of workers are prisoners of war and cheap foreign labor (like the labor service of the population of the occupied European countries). I already wrote about this above.
Thus, the welfare of the new German lands will be created by proxy.

This concludes the first part of the article. In the second part of the article, we will consider whose hands the "eastern space" will be transformed according to the plan of the creators of the Ost plan and what fates they prepared for those who lived for centuries east of the Vistula, in the Baltic, on the Dnieper, in the Crimea.

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Plan
Introduction
1 Project Rosenberg
2 Description of the plan
3 Wetzel's remarks and suggestions
4 Developed variants of the Ost plan
4.1 Documents created after the attack on the USSR on June 22, 1941

Bibliography

General plan "Ost" Generalplan Ost) - a secret plan of the German government of the Third Reich to carry out ethnic cleansing in Eastern Europe and its German colonization after the victory over the USSR ..

A variant of the plan was developed in 1941 by the Imperial Security Main Office and presented on May 28, 1942 by an employee of the Office of the Headquarters of the Imperial Commissioner for the Consolidation of the German People, SS Oberführer Konrad Meyer-Hetling under the name "General Plan Ost" - the basis of the legal, economic and territorial structure East". The text of this document was found in the German Federal Archives in the late 1980s, some documents from there were presented at an exhibition in 1991, but it was completely digitized and published only in November-December 2009.

At the Nuremberg trials, the only evidence for the existence of the plan was the “Remarks and proposals of the “Eastern Ministry” on the general plan“ Ost ”, according to prosecutors, written on April 27, 1942 by an employee of the Ministry of Eastern Territories E. Wetzel after reading the draft plan prepared by the RSHA.

1. Project Rosenberg

The master plan was preceded by a project developed by the Reichsministry of the Occupied Territories, which was headed by Alfred Rosenberg. On May 9, 1941, Rosenberg submitted to the Fuhrer a draft policy directive on the territories to be occupied as a result of the aggression against the USSR.

Rosenberg proposed the creation of five governorships on the territory of the USSR. Hitler opposed the autonomy of Ukraine and replaced the term “governorship” with “Reich Commissariat” for it. As a result, Rosenberg's ideas took the following forms of embodiment.

· Ostland - was supposed to include Belarus, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Ostland, where, according to Rosenberg, lived a population with Aryan blood, was subject to complete Germanization within two generations.

· Ukraine - would include the territory of the former Ukrainian SSR, Crimea, a number of territories along the Don and Volga, as well as the lands of the abolished Soviet Autonomous Republic of the Volga Germans. According to Rosenberg's idea, the governorate was to receive autonomy and become the backbone of the Third Reich in the East.

Caucasus - would include the republics North Caucasus and Transcaucasia and would separate Russia from the Black Sea.

· Muscovy - Russia to the Urals.

· Turkestan was to become the fifth governorate.

The success of the German campaign in the summer-autumn of 1941 led to a revision and toughening of the German plans for the eastern lands, and as a result, the Ost plan was born.

2. Description of the plan

According to some reports, the "Plan" Ost "" was divided into two - "Small Plan" (German. Kleine Planung) and "Big Plan" (German. Grosse Planung). The small plan was to be carried out during the war. The German government wanted to focus on the Grand Plan after the war. The plan provided for a different percentage of Germanization for various conquered Slavic and other peoples. "Non-Germanized" were to be deported to Western Siberia or subjected to physical destruction. The execution of the plan was to ensure that the conquered territories would acquire an irrevocably German character.

3. Remarks and suggestions by Wetzel

Among historians, a document known as "Remarks and proposals of the Eastern Ministry on the general plan" Ost "" has been circulated. The text of this document has often been presented as the "Plan Ost" itself, although it has little in common with the text of the Plan published at the end of 2009.

Wetzel assumed the expulsion of tens of millions of Slavs beyond the Urals. The Poles, according to Wetzel, "were the most hostile to the Germans, the largest and therefore the most dangerous people."

"Generalplan Ost", as it should be understood, also meant the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" (German. Endlösung der Judenfrage), according to which the Jews were subject to total destruction:

The number of people to be evicted according to the plan must actually be much higher than envisaged. Only if we take into account that approximately 5-6 million Jews living in this territory will be liquidated even before the eviction, can we agree with the figure mentioned in the plan of 45 million local residents of non-German origin. However, the plan shows that Jews are included in the mentioned 45 million people. From this, therefore, it follows that the plan proceeds from an obviously incorrect calculation of the population. From Wetzel's remarks and proposals on the general plan "Ost"

In the Baltics, the Latvians were considered more suitable for "Germanization", while the Lithuanians and Latgalians were not, as there were too many "Slavic admixtures" among them. According to Wetzel's proposals, the Russian people were to be subjected to such measures as assimilation ("Germanization") and reduction in numbers through a reduction in the birth rate - such actions are defined as genocide.

From the directive of A. Hitler to the Minister for Affairs
Eastern Territories A. Rosenberg
on the entry into force of the General Plan "Ost"
(July 23, 1942)

The Slavs must work for us, and if we no longer need them, let them die. Vaccinations and health care are unnecessary for them. Slavic fertility is undesirable... education is dangerous. It is enough if they can count to one hundred ...
Every educated person is our future enemy. All sentimental objections should be discarded. It is necessary to rule these people with iron determination...
In military terms, we should be killing three to four million Russians a year.

4. Developed variants of the Ost plan

The following documents were developed by the planning team Gr. lll B planned service of the Main Staff Directorate of the Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of the German People Heinrich Himmler (Reichskommissar für die Festigung Deutschen Volkstums (RKFDV) and the Institute of Agrarian Policy of the Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Berlin:

· Document 1: Fundamentals of Planning, created in February 1940 by the RKFDV planning service (volume: 21 pages). Contents: Description of the extent of the planned eastern colonization in West Prussia and Wartheland. The colonization area was to be 87,600 km², of which 59,000 km² was agricultural land. About 100,000 settlement farms of 29 hectares each were to be created on this territory. It was planned to resettle in this territory about 4.3 million Germans; of these, 3.15 million in rural areas and 1.15 million in cities. At the same time, 560,000 Jews (100% of the population of the region of this nationality) and 3.4 million Poles (44% of the population of the region of this nationality) were to be gradually eliminated. The costs of implementing these plans have not been estimated.

· Document 2: Materials for the report "Colonization", developed in December 1940 by the planning service of the RKFDV (volume 5 pages). Contents: Founding article to "Requirement of Territories for Forced Resettlement from the Old Reich" with a specific requirement for 130,000 km² of land for 480,000 new viable settlement farms of 25 hectares each, plus an additional 40% of the territory for forestry, for the needs of the army and reserve areas in Wartheland and Poland.

Document 3 (disappeared, exact content unknown): "General Plan Ost", created in July 1941 by the planning service of the RKFDV. Contents: Description of the extent of the planned eastern colonization in the USSR, with the boundaries of specific areas of colonization.

Document 4 (disappeared, exact contents unknown): "General plan Ost", created in December 1941 by the planning group Gr. lll B RSHA. Contents: Description of the scale of the planned eastern colonization in the USSR and the Governor-General with the specific boundaries of individual areas of settlement.

· Document 5: "General Plan Ost", created in May 1942 by the Institute of Agriculture and Politics of the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin (volume 68 pages).

Contents: Description of the scale of the planned eastern colonization in the USSR with the specific boundaries of individual areas of settlement. The area of ​​colonization was to cover 364,231 km², including 36 strongholds and three administrative districts in the region of Leningrad, the Kherson-Crimean region and in the region of Bialystok. At the same time, settlement farms with an area of ​​40-100 hectares, as well as large agricultural enterprises with an area of ​​at least 250 hectares, were supposed to appear. Required amount settlers were estimated at 5.65 million. The areas planned for settlement were to be cleared of approximately 25 million people. The cost of implementing the plan was estimated at 66.6 billion Reichsmarks.

· Document 6: "The master plan of colonization" (German. Generalsiedlungsplan), created in September 1942 by the planning service of the RKF (volume: 200 pages, including 25 maps and tables).

Content: Description of the scale of the planned colonization of all areas provided for this with specific boundaries of individual areas of settlement. The region was to cover an area of ​​330,000 km² with 360,100 farms. The required number of migrants was estimated at 12.21 million people (of which 2.859 million were peasants and those employed in forestry). The area planned for settlement was to be cleared of approximately 30.8 million people. The cost of implementing the plan was estimated at 144 billion Reichsmarks.

Bibliography:

1. DIETRICH EICHHOLTZ ""Generalplan Ost" zur Versklavung osteuropäischer Völker"

2. Olga SOROKINA. Ethnic groups in the occupied territory of the USSR during the Second World War

3. Zitat aus dem universitären Generalplan Ost vom Mai 1942 in einem Berliner Ausstellungskatalog 1991 bei falscher Quellen- und Datenangabe hier

4. Generalplan Ost Rechtliche, wirtschaftliche und räumliche Grundlagen des Ostaufbaus, Vorgelegt von SS-Oberführer Professor Dr. XX, Berlin-Dahlem, May 28, 1942

5. Comments and proposals of the "Eastern Ministry" on the general plan "Ost"

6. Sowiet Union, Berlin, 3 n WFSt/W Pr (IVa) / 3600/41; Juni 1941 // Ortwin Buchbender. Das tonende Erz. Deutsche Propaganda gegen die Rote Armee im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Seewald Verlag Stuttgart, 1978, ISBN 3-512-00473-3, p. 30-32

7. Comments and proposals of the "Eastern Ministry" on the general plan "Ost" / Scientific and educational journal "Skepsis"

8. UN Resolution (260 A (III). Article II, paragraph d)

9. If not for the VICTORY ... Information and reference portal Gorod48.ru

10. SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler was appointed by Adolf Hitler on 10/07/1939 Reichscommissar for the Consolidation of the German People with the task of coordinating all the activities of the SS Main Office for Race and Settlement Affairs and the SS Main Office for the Repatriation of Ethnic Germans "Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle", as well as for colonization of the occupied territories. In 1939, G. Himmler formed the Staff Directorate of the Imperial Commissar, which from June 1941 received the status of the Main Directorate of the SS. SS Obergruppenführer and Police General Ulrich Greifelt was invariably at the head of this department.

11. Auf der Wewelsburg als ideologischer Zentrale der SS hatte Himmler im Juni 1941 vor Beginn von "Unternehmen Barbarossa" in der einzigen SS-Gruppenführertagung, die dort je stattfand, das Ziel des Russlandfeldzuges angekündigt: " die Dezimierung der Bevölkerung der slawischen Nachbarländer um 30 Millionen.» (Vgl. Richard Breitman, Heinrich Himmler. Der Architekt der "Endlösung", München-Zürich 2000, S. 393, Anm. 12.)