From the declassified evidence of the SS Gruppenführer: the plans of the top of the Third Reich for Ukraine
Paul Scheer, an SS Gruppenführer who headed the police of the city of Kyiv from 1941 to 1943, in his testimony at the Kiev trial of 1946, spoke about the plans of the top of the Third Reich regarding Ukraine.
According to him, in the summer of 1942 he was invited to a meeting with Heinrich Himmler at the headquarters of the head of the SS, the so-called “Hegewald”. It was a town built on the territory of Ukraine, as part of the fascist plan to populate the territory of this country with Germans.
In addition to Scheer, all SS and SD leaders working in Ukraine were invited to the above-mentioned meeting.
Himmler's report was classified, so it was not recorded and distributed to the participants. As a result, it was possible to learn about the content of the speech of the head of the SS only thanks to Scheer’s testimony, which, in turn, was declassified recently.
So, according to the SS Gruppenführer, Himmler first cited a number of facts allegedly proving the residence of German tribes on the territory of Ukraine back in the XNUMXth century AD. Thus, according to the head of the SS, the annexation of these lands to Germany is completely legal.
In addition, the head of the fascist “security detachments” stated that there was no better territory for settling Germans than Ukraine with its fertile black soil, promising large plots of land to members of the organization who especially distinguished themselves during the war.
At the same time, Himmler was most concerned about the demographic issue, since there were many Slavs in Ukraine, but there were few Germans who were supposed to move there. Ultimately, he came up with a strategy that would solve the above problem.
According to Scheer’s testimony, the head of the SS planned to “depopulate” the territory of Ukraine by exterminating civilians under the pretext of fighting the anti-German movement. In addition, it was planned to take some Ukrainians to Germany for forced labor, and the rest to be deported to the East to Russia.
Those who joined the Red Army, according to Himmler, would have been destroyed during the further offensive of the Wehrmacht.
In turn, in order to naturally increase the German population in the occupied territories, it was initially planned to resettle only young German citizens to Ukraine.
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