Plan Regional d'Elimination des Dechets Industriels et Speciaux

The German command was counting on Russia being finished by winter of 1941: Moscow would be captured, and a border would be reached running from Arkhangelsk to Astrakhan. A program for occupying seized Russian territories, the Generalplan Ost [БЂњMaster Plan EastБЂ«] was developed at the same time as Operation Barbarossa. The resources of such territories, including petroleum, were to become property of the Reich. A special ministry, the Reichsministerium fцјr die besetzten Ostgebiete [БЂњReich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern TerritoriesБЂ«], was created to deal with the eastern territories. A number of regions would be colonized by Germans, while Russia itself was to be БЂњthrown across the Urals.БЂ«The local population would be a source of cheap labor. Some inhabitants would be physically eliminated, including any and all Jews, Gypsies, and the physically and mentally handicapped, wherever they might be, as well as the БЂњcommissarsБЂ«and communists, HitlerБЂ™s principal ideological enemies. It should be noted that GermanyБЂ™s attack on June 22, 1941 took the Party political and military leadership of the Soviet Union, headed by Joseph Stalin, by surprise ...»