iU~ CRIlviES and CRIlvIES i~Gi..INST HUlv1:~rITY l'..ffiT VI GEID~ll'JIS.""TION OF OCCUPIED TSRRITORIES l'repared by: 1st LT. ED:l.,'UtD H. KENYON I'R1i:.SElJTED BY SECTION IT H..JillY ~l. HOLLERS. Colonel. J •.u .•G.D. Chief'of S·.. ction iiILLL' ,~ F. ~£t:.LSH. Major, ...... C., Deputy TABLE OF CONT",ci;NTS Pa(_;e No. A. Suction of Indictr,lCnt 1 1 C. St~tmJent of Evidence 1. Leb~nsrallin as the Goal of Nazi Forei~n 2 Policy. 2. CO:lsi)iracy to COil4.Uer and Geroanise 2 ForeiGn Territories. 3. The Office of Reich Commissioner for 5 the Consolidation of Jerman Nationhood. 4. DCJ.sic T:'_eories and Plans of the Reich 7 CQj".::issioner for the Consolidation of G-:)l'r:an NLtionhood. 5. Gcr:'lunisation of the Incorl')orated 8 E~stern Territories. 6. Gcrr-l£;ilisation of the Gov9rnment 12 General. 7. GU1~lanisation of the Occupied Eastern 16 Territories. 8. Evacuation and R~sett10ment in the 18 Eusturn Territories. 9. Gorl::f:iiisc.tion of the :18~tern Terri- 21 tories. D. ,,-"r:.:,unent and. Conclusion. 25 1. N~erical List of Doc~~ents. 26 2. Ducuo,lents pertaining to Individual 30 Defendants. 3. Documents pertaining to Organizations. 30 i Section of I~dictBent COUNT TEREE - ii..J\ CRIMES VIII.J - Geruanisation of Occupied Territories Pace 24 B. Le~cl Ruf~rence5 1. C;iarter - oI.4r'ticle 6 (b): W,j..".lR CRTIvIES: nanelyI violations of the laws or customs of war. Such viol~tions shall include, but not be limited to, murder, ill-treatment or deportation to slave labor or for any other pur­ pose of civilian population of or in occupied territory, murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war or persons on the seas, killing of hos­ tages, plunder of public or private property, wanton destruction of cities, to~ms or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity." 2. Hague Re~ulctions. 1907: ..~ rticlc 43 tIT!~e authority of the leGitimate power havinc; in fact passed into the hands of the occupant, the la~ter shall take all tho measures in his power to restore, and ensure, as far as pos­ sible, public order and safety, while respect­ ing, unless absolutely prevented, the laws in force in the country. It ..:..rticlo 16 "FaLlily l1onour and rights, the lives of persons I and private property, as \'Tell as religious con­ victions and practice, must be rospocted. Priv~to Fro,crty cannot bo confiscated. rt oI.4r'ticle 48 'tIf, lil the territory occupied, the occupant Gollccts tho taxos, duos, and tolls imposed for the benefit of the stctc, he shall do so, as far as is possible in accordance with the rules of assessment and incidence in force, and shall in consequence bo bound to defray the expenses of the administration of the occupied territory to the same extent as the legitimate Govornment was so bound. II - 1 - c•. Statement of Ev1dence. 1. Lebensraum as the Goal of Nazi Foreign Policy. Many years before the war, leaders of the National Socialist Party demanded living space for the German people. This requirement was considered by them to be the goal ~f foreign policy.. 1I •••~e want lebensraum for a, grea.t culture nation~ We want to have space for the peasants in th~ East in order that the German nation be able to nO'lU'ish itself. 1I ~13-PS. Das Wesensgefuege des Nationalsozia,lismus, Rosenberg, 1933. p. 30. liThe goal of our present foreign policy must net be 'orientatipn to the Vest or East' but Eastern policy in the sense of procuring the necessary land fer our German people. 1I ~91~PS~ . Mein Kampf, Hitler, 1932, p. 757~ 2~ Conspiracy to Conquer and Germanise FGreign Territories. One of the main purposes of the defendants in planning and waging war was to gain additional territory. Conquered areas were to be made German territories by the evacuation ot German- lsation of inhabitants and by colonisation and settlement by people of German blood. "In the East Germany is carrying on a three-fold wart a war for the destruction of Bolshevism, a war for the destruction of the greater Russian Empire and finally a war for the acquisition of colonial territory for colonizing purposes and economic exploitation." 294-fS. Copy of memorandum from Rosenberg f11es, 25 October 1942. signed Braeutigam. This plan and purpose were fully expressed in the minutes of a conference at the Fuehrer's Headquarters, 16 July 1941, concerning the war in the East, attended by Hitler, Goering, Keitel, Rosenberg, Lammers and Bormann. which contained the follOWing statements: "New it was essential that we did not publicize our aims before the world ." The main thing was that we oU4selvee knew what we wanted." - 2- ItTherefore we shall emphasize again that we were forced to occupy, administer, and secure a certain area; it was in the interests of ,the inhabitants that we provided order, food, traffic etc.; hence our meaeures. Nobody shall be able to recognize that 1t initiates a final settlement. If "Therefore we shall act as though we wanted to exercise a mandate only. At the same time ~ mue, know clearly that we shall never leave those countries. 1I liOn principle we have now to face the task of cutting up the giant cake according to our needs, in order to be able first, to dominate it, second, to administer it, and third, to exploltit. II liThe Crimea has to be evacuated by all foreigners and to be sett~ed by Germans only. In the same way the former Austrian part of Galicia will become Reich territory." "Never again must it be possible to create a military power west of the Urals ••• We must never permit anybody but the Germane to carry a.rms. 1I "rxhe Fuehrer emphasizes that the entire Baltio country will have to be incorporated~into.. Gerpuany. At the same time the Crimea, inoluding a con­ siderable hinterland (situated north of the Crimea) should become Reich territory; the hinterland should be-as large as possib1e.". liThe Fuehrer emphasizes furthermore that the Volga Colony too will have to become Reich territory, 8.1S0 the district around :Baku; the latter will have to become a German concession (.military colony)." L-221. Copy of memorandum by Bormann, of conference at Fuehrer's Headquarters. 16 July 1941. In a diacussion with Rosenberg, Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories, on 14 December 19~1, Hitler emphasized that he wished t9 have the Crimea cleaned-'out, and Rosenberg stated that he had given much consideration to pro- viding the towns in that area with German names. 15l?-PS. Original memorandum of conference with Hitler 14 December 1941, signed by Rosenberg. ~n a speech delivered 20 June 1941, Rosenberg stated that nt part of the food produced in the southern territories of the - :3 - USSR and the northern craucasus would be used to feed the inhabi- tants. Consequently extensive evacuations would have to be planned and carried out in order to effect "conversion of Russian dynamics to"Tard the East". 1058-PS. Copy of speech by Eosenberg, 20 June 1941. The defendantsJplan to conquer and Germaniee was elaborated in detail with respect to Ozechoslovakia. The solution of the "Czech Problem", as planned by K. H. Frank. Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, was to absorb approximatelY half the Czech population in Germany by means of an increased labor draft and dispersion of the closely knit C~ech people. The other half of the Czech population, not considered desirable on racial or other grounds, was to be eli~inated or expelled from the country. particularly the educated class of people who might be expected to hinder the program of Germanisation. All elements actively opposed to Germanisation were to be dealt" with sharply and eliminated. This solution of the "Czech Problem" wae approved by Hitler, who directed that while retaining outwardly the autonomy of the Pro~ectorate, the Germanisation of the Czech population must be systematically fostered by the Reich Protector for years to come. This solution wae also endorsed by the Wehrmacht, since it wae a policy which the Wehrmacht had always advocated., 862-PS. Original memorandum, 15 October 1940, by General Friderici, Plenipotentiary of the Wehrmacht to the Reich Protectcr of Bohemia and Moravia, initialed by Keitel, J~dl and Warlimont. A similar program of Germanisation wae planned for the Eastern areas, inclUding the settlement of German farmers in former Polish territories, in order to form bulwarks of German culture and to encircle the Polish population, thus accelerating the process of Germanisation. During the first 5 years after the war, it was planned to fill the Eastern territories with German people and to supply the Crimea and the Ealtic States with at least a. German upper class" -4- O~py ()f Notea on H~mmlerte Plan !(;)r ttl/) GEJ~mlanieatlon of rolard. ~7 a.nd :30 Me.r--ch 1~~2. ffom' the ~,1n C(tiee. !nter1~r b~~1pt&t~t~on, ~v9r~.$nt Gen~rei; ~n1t1e.led'.Dr. S. J." :fue'b..,-er fSS: \ tt·rhe ~Q.],:.:an~ a:of. alwe~'s in e. stat*> of ( :lfudon. ~~t ~e ~ ~l~~sing. !~ they w~~e ~~it~. it would be terrible. Things ar.e chaotic in t~~ Caucasus and. rl:', R~e1a. vie can only see to it ••• ~hat the t0~r1tor1ee we r~~~ ~ccu,\ed and the peoples we rule over nevor bece~p. united. ttet they alway~ r~~1~ disunited. For thGY w~uld only be united %~i:lot us. It l~7~, Sp~eoh by Hin1utl~r at y.o;:~n.