Gauliter Koch biography

Mr. to the chief of the department of the political headquarters, the second main department, the main department of the press and propaganda for the text [of the lead] of the familiarization. Breytigs by hand, but another document, extracted from the archives by a modern researcher A. Shortly before the appearance of the above note by Breitigam, an influential collaborationist structure in Galicia - the Ukrainian Central Committee of the UTSC, led by Vladimir Cubiovich - expressed fears that an interethnic conflict could spread to Galicia with Volyn.

The Ukrainians who collaborated with the Germans openly indicated the reason why Galicia gradually “hung up” - raid partisan Sidor Kovpak, spent in the summer of the year. This operation, for which Kovpak received his second golden star of the Hero of the Soviet Union, largely untied the hands of the Bandera, who had already fought in Volyn at that moment. There is a threat that our land can slide into the abyss of anarchy and mess.

The formation of the Galician division put on one front against the creative work of the positive camp of Ukrainians of all its enemies - the Bolsheviks, Poles and the Ukrainian destructive camp of destruction and anarchy to such Utskovites attributed Bandera. All these forces in their own way led the frantic agitation against the division and its volunteers.

To confront the division, the Ukrainian destructive camp began to call Ukrainian youth in the forest - as if for military training. As a result of all this, there was a mass desertion from the Ukrainian service to the Motherland, an organization that carried out strategically important work, about 30 Ukrainian young men are lacking in labor camps, which led to significant complications in the construction of military facilities in the territory of Galicia.

Mass desertion entailed a sharp exacerbation of administrative relations in this region. More and more often there are murders of both Ukrainians and Poles. Some dark forces and discharges of society are fattening on base instincts and incite people to the interethnic war and massacre. Under the influence of the ongoing agents of enemy agents, there are more and more cases when peasant bottoms lose their healthy attitude to the necessary duties of wartime ...

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A minimum of a person was sent from the western regions of the Ukrainian SSR. After all this, it was really necessary to try so that in a year and a half, the whole land occupied by the Germans would rebel. During the process above Koch, several photocopies of the so -called Berichte records of “Table conversations” by the Fuhrer were read out. Here are the excerpts of the year, where Hitler's dinner was described: “Talk at the table went on the topic of“ Free Ukraine ”.

Fuhrer and Reich Commissioner Koch reject this project. Slavs are like rabbit families who never go beyond related ties, except that the owners will lead them. Decorganization is characteristic of their nature. The knowledge instructed by him at best is a half -digest that turns them into dissatisfied and anarchists. Even for these reasons, you should refuse to open the university in Kyiv.

In addition, little will remain from Kyiv. The intention of the Fuhrer, who believes that the destruction of large Russian cities is a prerequisite for the strength of German domination in Russia, was supported by the Reich Commissioner Koch. A group of German military at the entrance to the Kiev Pechersk Lavra in occupied Kyiv. Photo: Waralbum. If, in addition, to establish a monopoly on alcohol and tobacco, then the population of the occupied territories will be entirely in our hands ...

”“ ... A few days ago, a very sharp collision occurred between Koch and Field Marshal Keitel, since Koch accused the military authorities of unreasonable encouragement of Ukrainians and incorrectly handling them, which does not correspond to the ideas of the Fuhrer. Assuming that Ukrainians will not agree with his policy, the Reich Commissioner demanded from the Fuhrer 20 thousand police and gendarmerie ...

"" The mood in the main headquarters of the Fuhrer is favorable for Koch. Everyone believes that he is Koch. Koch or Rosenberg? In the lengthy work of the American researcher Alexander Dallin “German rule in Russia in - gg. The head dedicated to Ukraine begins with two epigraphs - Rosenberg’s statements: “Our goal is a free Ukrainian state” - and Kokha: “Ukraine does not exist.

We must not forget that we are the people of the Lord. ” Dallin considers both these epigraphs to be characteristic of political concepts of both Rosenberg and Koch in relation to Ukraine. The backstage side of the appointment of Koch by the Reich Commissioner of Ukraine says, in particular, the following: “The struggle for power between individual Nazi leaders led to an open split at the time when the Reich Commissioner of Ukraine was to appoint.

However, at a meeting on July 16Goering crossed out Rosenberg's plans, deciding to appoint Koch as the commissar of the Baltic Territory or Ukraine, since it was Koch who considered it more initiative and better prepared. The nomination of the candidacy of Koch was a significant contribution of Goering to Eastern politics. Rosenberg knew that Koch was a “Goering’s favorite”. He rightly feared that Koch would not reckon with his instructions.

Goering defended Koch. In the end, Hitler intervened, who ordered the appointment of Koch by the commissar to Ukraine. " As a commissar of Ukraine, Koch, thanks to friendship with Bormann, was able to strengthen his situation independent of Rosenberg. Bormann, being nominally the chief of Koch Koch - primarily the party functionary - as the Gauleiter of Prussia answered to the head of the party office by Bormann, was actually an intermediary between Koch and Hitler.

Thus, a situation arose in which Koch as a Reich Commissioner of Ukraine practically had the opportunity to resolve all issues directly with Hitler through the head of his minister, Rosenberg, with the help of Bormann. In March, Rosenberg introduced Hitler a Memorandum, in which, without mentioning Koch's surname, he sharply condemned his policy. Here is what Rosenberg wrote about Koch: “...

some personalities made Fuhrer out of politics. It was this that emphasized the dismissive attitude that often rendered to the will of the population. Rosenberg believed that “the task of German representatives in Ukraine. Without going into an assessment of Rosenberg’s position, Dallin states that he was right, accusing Koch of that he had contributed to the growth of anti -German sentiments among the Ukrainian population.

Koch did not think for a minute to concede the Ukrainian concepts of Rosenberg. The defeat of Germany near Stalingrad only increased his rage. Under the influence of this defeat, he sent a circular to the various administrative bodies of the territory subordinate to him, in which, in particular, it was said: “I demand that the principle of management of Ukrainians be a solid arm and justice.

Do not believe that the conditions that have currently developed the German retreat on the Eastern Front. Outraged by the behavior of Koch, Rosenberg on March 13 G. Koch could not cancel the order of the minister, to whom he was subordinate, but he managed to shake the authority of Rosenberg. At the same time, Koch sent a memorandum for 52 pages to Rosenberg, listing in it all the differences in views with his minister.

In response to a long -standing accusation of Rosenberg, that Koch beats the Ukrainians, the latter gave the “classic answer” in the quoted memorandum: “Indeed, 20 Ukrainians were beaten in Kiev in Kyiv. The police beat them because they sabotaged important work on the construction of the bridge. I did not know anything about this order. If he knew, then, in all likelihood, he would approve him.

However, if I knew how many reproaches in the beating would cause this fact, I would probably order Ukrainians to shoot sabotage ... ”In the memorandum, Koch repeatedly emphasized the correspondence of Hitler's views. Rosenberg, abandoning the direct struggle with Koch, turned to the head of the imperial office of Lammers for help. He sent a letter on 17 pages, in which he wrote: “To an increaser extent, the name of Koch becomes a symbol of a consciously neglect of the people.

Currently, the phenomenon from which I warned him has become felt ..., an increasingly strong feeling of hopelessness and the associated growth of hatred that covers the whole country. The bodies of Soviet partisans, executed in Kharkov. Photo: Christian Zentner. If Ukrainians turn against the Germans, this will be the result of the political activity of the Reich Commissioner Koch ...

”Through Lammers, Rosenberg tried to achieve permission to withdraw Koch from the post of Reich Commissioner of Ukraine. To this end, he wrote to Hitler: “... I consider him Koch. However, before Rosenberg’s letter reached Hitler, Koch appeared at Bormann, who assured him in his support. Hitler accepted at his main headquarters Rosenberg and Koch, took the side of Koch and rejected the political concepts of Rosenberg against Ukraine.

In view of Hitler’s position, Koch in practice turned out to be completely independent of Rosenberg “to himself the Minister”. Recruitment takes place using the funds provided for by laws. In case of violations, I acted officially. Consequently, there is no need for your ministry in multiple orders and by telephone to emphasize that any coercion should be avoided when recruiting for work.

At his disposal of May 20, the Volninsky massacre. The corpses of the Poles are identified for identification and funeral. Photo: Wikipedia as an old Gaulyait, I was used to going with worries and wishes for my Fuhrer, and this right has never called into question the minister, to whom I obey as an overseer.I must emphasize that the Führer repeatedly handed me, as the old Gaulitera, his political instructions and that in some cases he clarified his subordinates to his views on Ukrainian politics ...

In conversations with the Fuhrer, I have repeatedly had the opportunity to determine my line of oriental policy. Numerous instructions regarding oriental politics were transferred to me from his inner circle for the last time in December of the year ... I always tried to pursue my policy in accordance with the directives of the Fuhrer. " In the next letter to Hitler, Koch reports: “My Fuhrer.

Since two years have passed since the conquest of Ukraine, I believe that I can give you pleasure by reporting that during this time, agricultural products, mining and other industry worth several billion marks have been taken into the empire. In addition, continuing with success to recruit work in the empire has long exceeded one million people ... ”From the memorandum of Koch Rosenberg.

You verbally and on the phone protested against this decree. Fears were expressed that I would “burn the vast fields of Ukraine”. The fact that Ukraine is mainly exists and has not yet been burned is evident from my supply of bread and other products. In a country where my orders that I give at the direction of the highest authorities of the Empire meet resistance, I cannot do otherwise, I must apply harsh and instructive punishments ...

”Alfred Rosenberg was hanged in Nuremberg according to the verdict of the international tribunal as one of the main military criminals.

Since the time when Koch became the Reich Commissioner in Ukraine, relations between him and other dignitaries have worsened to the limit. This is written by Goebbels biographer, calling Koch "Dictature Dictate"; Goebbels, like Rosenberg, came to the conclusion that Koch's rejection in Ukraine is damaged by the “Third Empire”. He was accused of unnecessary cruelty.

Guderian in his “Memoirs of the Soldier” also writes that Koch's activity in Ukraine increased the resistance movement and that even the part of the population, which, according to Guderian, sympathized with the Germans, turned away from them. From the book of memoirs of the Minister of Arms Albert Speer: “... on the site of one of the most famous churches of Kyiv, I found a pile of ruins.

They told me that under the advice there was a ware of ammunition, which then, for an unknown reason, took off into the air. Goebbels later told me that in fact, the Reich Commissioner of Ukraine Erich Koch decided to destroy the symbol of its national pride and ordered to blow up the church. For six months later, the seizures and violence, fixed by officials of the German administration, led to the partisans everywhere ...

"Koch asks for the German journalist Hans Joachim Kaush, who talked with Koch in his residence in Rivne, describes this conversation:“ It was ridiculous, ”the concept of nationality and include the concept of nationality and include the concepts of nationality and include the concept of nationality them in a family of European nations. Ukraine never belonged to Europe ...

If the German soldier won Ukraine, then not in order to make the Ukrainian people make it happy, but in order to subordinate it to German domination, to create the possibility of relocation for front -line soldiers, and for Europe - the market for primary importance. ” The party and their own dexterity highly ascended Koch.