A lesson on the porch of a school destroyed by German shelling. Archival photoMOSCOW, June 22The Nazis wanted to export bread to Europe from the occupied territories of the USSR, dooming the local population to starvation, follows from archival documents published on Wednesday by the Russian Defense Ministry. The military department launched a new the historical section «Heroes of the First Days of the Great War», dedicated to the 81st anniversary of the start of the Great Patriotic War, in which unique documents from the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation are published.
" How big is your own consumption? This fact is the key point from which we must proceed in our economic and political measures. The Russians' own consumption, at least at the beginning of our activities, must be reduced to such a level that we can have the necessary surpluses for export, «says the directive for managing the economy in the eastern regions to be occupied» Green folder #34;, which was captured by the troops of the Leningrad Front in early 1942.
At the same time, in order to reduce the consumption of bread by the population of the occupied territories, the Nazis intended to stop supplying them, despite the fact that this would lead to mass starvation, the extinction of the local population and deindustrialization : «Attempts to save the population from starvation by importing surplus products from the black earth belt are a brake on the supply of Europe and undermine Germany's ability to hold out.» destroyed temples to blame the USSR for this, showed the archives