The overwhelming majority of our contemporaries are firmly convinced that the plans of "inhuman fascism" included the destruction of millions of Slavs. This belief is so strong that it has in fact become an unquestionable truth. At the same time, there is no full evidence of the existence of such aspirations at the top of the National Socialist state.
The emergence of allegations of plans for the extermination of the majority of the population of the European part of the USSR by the Nazis dates back to the infamous Nuremberg trials. Of course, even before Nuremberg, that is, even during the war, the allied "aces of information warfare" periodically repeated the idea of the desire of the "fascists" to destroy millions of people, but then it was just propaganda, often very clumsy.
The manipulators chose several "documents" as evidence of the thesis about the liquidation of the Slavs. Chief among them is the so-called "General Plan Ost". It is significant that the text of the plan has not yet been found. Nevertheless, during the Nuremberg trial, this "document" appeared, however, in the form of some "Comments and proposals on the general plan of the Ost". The author of the notes was E. Wetzel, head of one of the departments of the Ministry of the Occupied Eastern Territories. The complete notes of Wetzel (they are pencil sketches in a notebook) have never been published. They are presented in the most complete form in the Military-Historical Journal (No. 1, 1960, pp. 87-98) 1.
The published source is divided into four sections: 1. General remarks on the Ost master plan; 2. General remarks on the issue of Germanization; 3. Towards the solution of the Polish question; 4. On the question of the future treatment of the Russian population.
In the first section, Wetzel deals with the question of the resettlement of Germans to the eastern territories. Their number should be 4 550 thousand people for the first time. "Racially undesirable local residents" should be relocated to Western Siberia. "5-6 million Jews are subject to liquidation even before the resettlement." Further, Wetzel notes the need to take into account data on the racial composition of the peoples of the East.
In the second section, the official examines measures for the so-called "Germanization" (inclusion of "local residents of non-German origin who have signs of the Nordic race" in the Reich's orbit. "Propose to understand physical destruction by" Germanization ".2 That is, according to these talented Jewish publicists, the Nazis planned to destroy the representatives of the Nordic race … An interesting discovery!
In the third section, Wetzel calls Poles “the most dangerous people”. At the same time, he notes that "the Polish question cannot be solved by eliminating the Poles", since "such a decision would burden the conscience of the German people for ever and deprive us of the sympathy of all."
In the fourth section, the author of the notes praises the racial type of Russians and criticizes the position of a certain Abel, who proposes the elimination of the Russian people.
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The body of the document is replete with obvious factual errors. Thus, in the last section, Wetzel writes about the "imperial commissariat for Russian affairs" that never existed in nature. It is difficult to assume that this official was not familiar with the structure of his own ministry. Here he also mentions the Gorky and Tula general commissariats, although Wetzel could not help but know that these territorial units were called districts in official documents (not even general districts, like Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Belarus).
There are many “remarks” and absolutely ridiculous suggestions. For example, Wetzel proposes to resettle some of the Poles "to South America, especially to Brazil." This is very reminiscent of the well-known "duck" about the plans to accommodate Jews on the island. Madagascar.
Therefore, the conclusion suggests itself that Wetzel's pencil sketches were either falsified from beginning to end (and this is a very common practice of the Allies), or underwent "some editing" by "specialists". In any case, we are dealing with an extremely dubious document that does not withstand a serious test for authenticity and, for good reason, should be deleted from the list of reliable historical sources once and for all. By the way, many Western researchers did this long ago.
It is indicative that even when working with such a controversial document, some balancing act from history manage to "reveal the monstrous secrets of fascism", while showing the wonders of unprofessionalism. The aforementioned Melnikov and Chernaya, for example, write in the book "Criminal No. 1": "In one place of the plan it is proposed, in particular, to resettle the Russians in South America and Africa." As we remember, Wetzel proposed to send part of the Poles to South America, and not at all Russians. There is not a word about Africa in the "remarks".