“Remnants of people like Estonians, Lithuanians, and Letts have to adapt themselves to us or they will perish. Things are quite different in the immense Russian area, of vital necessity to us as a basis for raw materials.”
Here I interrupt my quotation and continue on Page 117 of the document book, Paragraphs 10 and 11—I quote:
“I do not dare to voice an opinion on the economic measures, such as, for instance, the abolition of the free market in Kiev, which has been taken as a heavy blow by the population, since I am in no position to observe the entire situation. The ‘sergeant major attitude,’ the beatings and shouting in the streets, the senseless destruction of scientific institutions which is still going on as strong as ever in Dniepropetrovsk, should cease immediately and be punished severely.
“Kiev, 19 October 1942; Professor Dr. Paul W. Thomsen.”
The German fascist theory of Germanization, already well known to the Tribunal, announced that not the people but the territories were to be germanized.
I shall submit evidence to the Tribunal that a similar Hitlerite crime was to have been committed in Yugoslavia. This crime could not be perpetrated because of the liberation movement which flared up all over Yugoslavia.
I quote a short excerpt from the statement of the Yugoslav Government, which is on Page 68, Paragraph 7 in the document book:
“Immediately after the entry of the German troops into Slovenia, the Germans began to put into effect their long premeditated plan for the Germanization of the annexed regions of Slovenia. It was perfectly clear to the leading Nazi circles that a successful Germanization of Slovenia could not be realized unless the greater part of the nationally and socially conscious elements had previously been removed; and in order to weaken the resistance of the mass of the people towards the Nazi authorities engaged in the task of Germanization, it would be essential to lessen them numerically and destroy them economically.
“The German plan foresaw the complete removal of all the Slovenes from certain regions of Slovenia, and their repopulation by Germans”—Germans from Bessarabia and so-called “Gottscheer” Germans.”
I omit a passage and continue: