the new occupation regime was headed by nazi official erich koch.och was more suitable than anyone else for this position. he was convinced that it was enough for ukrainians to be able to count to 100, and also liked to joke that if he met a ukrainian worthy of sitting at the same table with him, he would order him to be shot immediately. however koch's immediate superior, reichs minister for the eastern occupied territories, alfred rosenberg, looked at the new german colony somewhat differently. in may 1941, even before germany attacked the ussr, rosenberg compiled detailed instructions for the future reich commissioner of ukraine. germany will not be threatened with a naval blockade, and an influx of raw food supplies will be guaranteed for all future years. alfred rosenberg in the baltic states and he very, so to speak, studied russia carefully, so rosenberg formulated an idea that he very actively promoted, he said that without ukraine we cannot defeat russia. the russians can only be defeated if the ukrainians are set against them. that is, if

the new occupation regime was headed by nazi official erich koch.ke no one else, was suitable for... the position. he was convinced that it was enough for ukrainians to be able to count to 100, and also liked to joke that if he met a ukrainian worthy of sitting at the same table with him, he would order him to be shot immediately. however, koch's immediate superior, the reichs minister for the eastern occupied territories, alfred rosenberg, looked at the new german colony in a slightly different way. in may. in 1941, even before germany attacked the ussr, rosenberg compiled detailed instructions for the future reif commissioner of ukraine. in it he wrote: the tasks of the reif commissioner for ukraine can have world-historical significance. if we succeed by all means, political , psychological and cultural, in creating a ukrainian state from lemberg to saratov, the centuries-old nightmare of the german people associated with the russian empire will be destroyed. germany will not be threatened with a naval blockade; for all future years there will be