ROSENBERG: On Page 7 of the text I find the passage—yes, I have found it.
GEN. RUDENKO: The text reads:
“From the economic point of view the German Reich must take control of the total oil supply. The necessary participation in the riches could be discussed in the future.”
Do you confirm that this statement was made by you?
ROSENBERG: This document is a memorandum of my office, and I confirm that it is true.
GEN. RUDENKO: Very well.
ROSENBERG: May I make a remark in addition? Here we are not talking about the oppression of a people but of an assurance of autonomy and of every possible mitigation for these people. Only I cannot locate that at once from a document which has 14 pages if I only read one sentence.
GEN. RUDENKO: I have just questioned you concerning the tasks of the German Reich with regard to this matter of oil. Now if you look at Page 14 of this same report you will find it at the very end—this is how you define the tasks:
“The problem of the Eastern territories consists of a transference of peoples from a Baltic to a German field of culture and the preparation for the military frontiers of Germany on a vast scale. The task of the Ukraine is to provide Germany and Europe with foodstuffs and the continent with raw materials. The task in the Caucasus is, above all, of a political nature and represents the decisive extension of continental Europe, under German direction, from the Caucasian isthmus to the Near East.”
Did you read this passage?