World War II was a difficult test for the Soviet Union. It just so happened that modern people first of all remember the front-line soldiers. Less often they talk about partisans and underground workers. Almost do not remember the rear workers. But many people completely forget about the population in the occupied territory and the Ostarbeiters.
“Where are you going, are you hurrying for Don? And who will fight for you? Maybe you will order us old women to take guns and defend you from the Germans? Who are you throwing people at? You have no shame, no conscience, damned... "x / f "They fought for the Motherland." 1975
“I free you from the dirty and corrupting chimera called conscience and morality” (c). The war and the robbery of the occupied territory by the invaders at all times went hand in hand. But not so often in European history, robbery in the occupied territory occurred at all levels within the framework of the targeted policy of the highest state power. So, on the territory of the occupied USSR, the soldiers of the Wehrmacht were forgiven a lot from robbing the local population to murders and rapes in the framework of the decree "On the application of military jurisdiction in the Barbarossa region and on special measures troops."
Of course, not all Germans on the eastern front turned into shameless animals, but the decline in the civilian population of the USSR on the busy Wehrmacht territories, numerous reports of the NKVD, reports of partisans and underground fighters, testimonies of fugitives from captivity and people from the environment, the memories of the German military themselves indicate that the scope of violence against the civilian population was unprecedented for history of the 20th century. Unfortunately, all this indicates that the Nazi racial policy had the most pernicious effect on German society and very many Wehrmacht soldiers.
The robbery of the civilian population was the most "harmless" crime of the Nazis, although in itself it was often not separable. from other violence, not to mention the fact that the occupying troops actually doomed the Soviet population to starvation death. At the same time, ordinary soldiers and officers of the Wehrmacht were extremely picky about the issue of expropriation of food. First of all, bread, lard, meat, fresh fish, eggs, and alcoholic beverages were selected. Real Aryan men took cattle suitable for slaughter: chickens, pigs, cattle.
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The builders of a united brown Europe without Bolshevism neglected some products. The Germans were very distrustful of dried fish, as well as any food already cooked. They were particularly disgusted by okroshka, which Wehrmacht soldiers considered "barbaric" food. The Germans never took away mushrooms, since this was directly forbidden by the command. Of course, not out of any sympathy for the local resident, but for security reasons - so as not to get poisoned. However, where the real Aryans “did not finalize”, everything was swept clean from the peasant cellars and the senets by the Italians, Hungarians and Romanians who fought for the Third Reich.
In conclusion, it remains to be noted that although direct robbery caused enormous damage to the civilian population of the USSR, its consequences did not comparable to the consequences of the targeted state policy of the Third Reich for the export from the occupied territory food. The monstrous measure was developed with the sanction of the top leadership of the Reich by the State Secretary of the Imperial Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Herbert Ernst Backe. According to his plan, from 20 to 30 million people were to die of starvation in the USSR in the first winter. By an evil irony of fate, Bakke was a "Russian German". A war criminal was born in 1896 in Batumi, during the time of the Russian Empire. In 1947, Bakke hanged himself in his cell, fearing that the Americans would extradite him to the USSR.
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Source: https://novate.ru/blogs/010122/61725/