On arrival here in the territory of Ukraine, the Germans spoke demonstratively about their mission of “liberation.” In practice, as is clear from the materials we have familiarized ourselves with … they gave directions that were to place Ukraine in colonial dependence… . During twenty years of Soviet power, the Ukrainian people had grown to the point whereby the Germans understood that, in order for their colonial plan to work, they would need to work toward complete economic and cultural domination. First, it was necessary to unleash a strike at the heart of Ukraine, to degrade Kyiv, to liquidate its leading role. The Hitlerites’ activities around Kyiv ensued from this supposition.

When the Germans went after Smolensk they went as the conquerors of Russia. Here, they showed up as the liberators of the Ukrainians. We need to show that in truth all of the Germans’ institutions gave directions for the creation of a colonial regime, and we need to show materials that correspond to this truth. When they conquered Morocco, they said matter-of-factly, “The Moroccans are a lowly race.” But they understood that the Ukrainians had a thousand year-old culture and that, as such, they were a people that had to be disarmed, materially and culturally, and then taken bare-handedly.