347: The Green Folder


In this photo, taken March 20, 1941, you can see some of the architects of Generalplan Ost: from left to right, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler, Philip Bouhler, Fritz Todt, Reinhard Heydrich, and on the far right, Konrad Meyer.

The Nazi government in Berlin had a plan in place for the administration of occupied Russia (and the other Soviet states) before Operation Barbarossa had even begun.

The plan called for the starvation, relocation, and mass murder of the current inhabitants of the region. They were to be replaced with Germans.

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Opening War Theme

Elegy No. 2
Composed in 1877 by Franz Liszt. Public domain.
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Closing War Theme



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