Now there is no doubt that the plans of the German fascists was the elimination of millions of Slavs. On the other hand, no reliable evidence has been found that the so-called Plan Ost existed. The allegation of a Nazi desire to exterminate the inhabitants of the European part of the Soviet Union appeared during the Nuremberg Tribunal. It is quite natural that until that time such an idea was repeatedly voiced by allied information warfare professionals, but at that time it was just propaganda.
Supporters of the idea of the extermination of the Slavs by the Germans refer to several documents at once. The General Plan Ost is the main one, even though its original version has not been found to this day. Be that as it may, he was still mentioned during the Nuremberg trials. The only thing that was available at that time was only the “Proposal and comments on the plan”. The authorship of this document is attributed to E. Wetzel, who during the war led one of the departments of the Ministry for Easternoccupied territories. In general, it was a sketch made in pencil in a regular notebook. The source that was officially published consists of four parts. The first of these was "Remarks that should be included in the Ost plan." The second section is "Remarks on Germanization" and the third one is "Solution of the Polish Question". The document ended with a part called “The Question of the Future Treatment of the Russian Population.”
According to Wetzel, in
sewage land at the initial stage were to be resettled by four and a half thousand Germans. At the same time, racially undesirable local residents should have been sent to the West Siberian region. As for the Jews, they had to be exterminated even before that. In the second part, the issue of including Germans of Nordic origin in the Reich's orbit is considered, and in the next part, the Poles are named the most dangerous people. At the same time, he stressed that it was impossible to eliminate them completely to solve the problem. In the final, fourth, section, the author admires the racial type of Russians, therefore he notes the inadmissibility of their liquidation. In spite of everything, in the comments that need to be included in the Ost plan, there are many obvious inaccuracies and errors that relate directly to the activities of the department entrusted to Wetzel. All this calls into question the authenticity of this document and suggests the idea of its falsification. It is possible that specialists representing the interests of the allies worked on it beforehand.
Most Western historians and scientists have not taken this document seriously for a long time and do not consider it authentic. On the other hand, it is by no means impossible to argue that the fascist plan Ost is a fiction, even though even a copy of it has not been found. Be that as it may, the monstrous deeds of the Nazis during the war had to be regulated by something. Without a doubt, Hitler's plans included the destruction of a huge number of Jews and Slavs, which numbered in the millions. Whether or not such a document as the Ost plan actually existed, against this background, it becomes not so important anymore.
