Religion we leave to them as a means of diversion. As for food, they won't get any more than is necessary. On the contrary they are covered, word by word, by the spirit and the text of Bormann's letter. Already at this point the question arises whether such a result is desirable in the interests of the Reich. It can hardly be doubted that these views would become known to the Ukrainian people.
Similar opinions prevail even today.
But there is no real need to assume a fictitious decree as was done in paragraph 1. The above-mentioned concept of our role in the East already exists in practice. And he goes on to quote those speeches, which have been referred to before this Tribunal. Then, in the next paragraph, he says that every visitor and every member of the local civil administration can confirm this from his own observations, and they show particularly clearly how well the soil is prepared for the Bormann letter. I may add that Kreisleiter Knuth, whom the Gauleiter still retains in spite of the gravest accusations, declared, in conversations on the Kiev question, that Kiev ought to be depopulated through epidemics.