Plan East: myth or fact?

Now there is no doubt that in the plans of the German Nazis were the elimination of millions of Slavs.On the other hand, reliable evidence that the so-called plan of the East existed, could not be found.Adoption of the Nazi quest to destroy the inhabitants of the European part of the Soviet Union appeared during the Tribunal at Nuremberg.Quite naturally, and until that time such an idea repeatedly voiced allied professionals of information warfare, but at that time it was just propaganda.

Proponents thought the extermination of Slavs by the Germans refer to several documents.The general plan of the East is the main of them, despite the fact that its original version is not detected, and to our time.Whatever it was, he still mentioned during the Nuremberg Trials.The only thing that was then available only "suggestions and comments to the plan."The authorship of the document is attributed to E. Wetzel, who led during the war, one of the Department of the Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories.In general, it was a sketch made in pencil in a conventional notebook.The source that was officially published, is composed of four parts.The first of these was the "Remarks that have to be made to the plan of the East."The second section - "Notes on Germanization", and the third - "The decision of the Polish question."The document is the final part of what was called "The future of the treatment of the Russian population."

According to Wetzel, on the eastern lands at the initial stage were to be relocated to four and a half thousand Germans.This unwanted racially local people should send in the West Siberian region.As for the Jews, they had to destroy before that.The second part describes how to enable the Germans to reyhovuyu orbit with Nordic origin, and in the next most dangerous people are called Poles.At the same time, he stressed that to eliminate them completely to solve the problem could not be.In the final, fourth, section the author admires racial type Russian, so says the inadmissibility of their liquidation.In spite of everything, in the comments, you need to make a plan in the East, there are many obvious inaccuracies and errors that relate directly to the activities of agencies entrusted Wetzel.All this casts doubt on the authenticity of the document and suggests the idea of ​​his fraud.It is possible that over him previously worked experts representing the interests of the Allies.

Most Western historians and scientists for a long time do not take seriously the document and do not consider it authentic.On the other hand, argue that the Nazi plan Ost is a fiction, in any case impossible, despite the fact that even the copy has not been found.Whatever it was, the monstrous acts of the Nazis during the war had something to be regulated.No doubt, in Hitler's plan was to destroy a huge number of Jews and Slavs, who numbered in the millions.There was or not really such a document as a plan for the East, against this background, becomes not so much matter.