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as economics and ideology, be adapted to
the political ends we are striving to attain.
"13) Again, extraordinary questions concerning these vast areas
such as, in particular, the ensuring of essential supplies for the
continuation of war against England, the maintenance of production
which this necessitates, and the great directives for the completely
separate areas, should best be dealt with all together in one place.
"It should again be stressed here that, in addition, all the
arguments which follow only hold good, of course, once the supplies
from the area to be occupied, which are essential to Greater Germany
for the continuance of the war, have been assured.
"Anyone who knows the East sees in a map of Russia's population
the following national or geographical units:
"(a) Greater Russia, with Moscow as its center; (b) White
Russia, with Minsk or Smolensk as its capital; (c) Estonia, Latvia,
and Lithuania; (d) The Ukraine and the Crimea, with Kiev as its
center; (e) The Don area, with Rostov as its capital; (f) The area of
the Caucasus; (g) Russian Central Asia or Russian Turkestan."
The memorandum then proceeds to discuss each of the areas or
geographical units in some detail, and I shall not read those pages. At
the end of the paper, however, the writer sums up his thoughts and
briefly outlines his plan. I should like to read that portion into the
record. It is at the bottom of Page 4 of the English translation under
the heading "Summary":
"The following systematic
constructional plan is evolved from the points briefly outlined here:
"(1) The creation of a central department for the occupied areas
of the U.S.S.R. to be confined more or less to war time. Working in
agreement with the higher and supreme Reich authorities, it would be
the task of this department:
"(a) To issue binding political instructions to the separate
administration areas, having in mind the situation existing at the
time and the goal which is to be achieved;
"(b) To secure for the Reich supplies essential to the war from
all the occupied areas;
"(c) To make preparations for, and to supervise the carrying out
in main outline of, the primarily important questions for all areas,
as for instance, those of finance and funds, transport, and the
production of oil, coal, and food.
"(2) The carrying out of sharply defined decentralization in the
separate administration areas, grouped together by race