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Adolf Hitler's chief copy writer was not at his typewriter last week. Scented, elegant, pseudo-intellectual Doktor Alfred Rosenberg (not to be confused with Jewish Rosenbergs) had a new job which made him one of the biggest of big Nazi executives. He had become the Reich Minister for the East. As such he stayed in his Berlin offices, but he let his ingenious mind range over the whole 615,000 square miles-thrice the area of Germany in 1937-which Adolf Hitler had conquered in Soviet Russia and now were his to administer...
...Doktor Rosenberg had as yet had little time for real administrative action. But for months his experts had been planning the economic exploitation of the conquered farms and factories. And certain social innovations might be expected. They were implicit in Doktor Rosenberg's nickname-The Jew Gobbler...
...administrative purposes the vast terrain was divided into two parts: the Ukraine and Ostland (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, White Russia). Doktor Rosenberg enraged many Ukrainian nationalists, who for years had hoped for Ukrainian independence, or a Reich Protectorate, by handing two big chunks of the Ukraine to others-Eastern Galicia to the Government of Occupied Poland, the great seaport Odessa to Rumania...
Rosenberg's Rise. Yet no copy writer has ever been able to pump more wordy gas into a factual vacuum than Doktor Alfred Rosenberg. Born 47 years ago in Rakvere, Estonia, he was the son of an Estonian mother and a German father who sold leather to shoemakers. Young Alfred went to high schools in Tallinn and Riga, developed a high admiration for -and a profound social inferiority complex about-noble Baltic families descended from medieval Teutonic Knights. Even at this early period it entered Alfred's head that if one cannot be born into an aristocracy...
...this work it developed that the Greeks and Romans were actually Nordics -just as, when it later became convenient, Doktor Rosenberg pronounced the Italians "Mediterranean Nordics." The Englishman was "at once arrogant, rude and brave when he raises his hand and establishes an empire-a creative nation of masters! . . . The United States have the great task, after throwing overboard the rotten ideas upon which they were founded, of creating a racial state...