Erich Koch, Gauleiter for East Prussia, born June 19, 1896 in Elberfeld, High Commissioner for the Ukraine, member of the Reichstag, winner of the Nazi Golden Party Badge, arrested by the British in 1949 and extradited to Poland, convicted of crimes against humanity, sentenced to death in 1959 but sentence commuted to life, died on November 12, 1986 in Barczewo Prison in Poland, said of the Ukraine in 1943: “I will draw the very last out of this country. I did not come to spread bliss…we are the master race, which must remember that the lowliest German worker is racially and biologically a thousand times more valuable than the population here.” (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)
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Generalfeldmarschall Maximilian von Weichs told General der Panzertruppe Friedrich Paulus on November 12, 1942 to be prepared to transfer 10,000 soldiers from Sixth Army’s engineer and artillery units to establish a support line behind the Romanians on the Sixth Army’s flank. (Stalingrad: The Death of the German Sixth Army on the Volga, 1942-1943)

