LÎÒ #30443. Reichskommissariat Ukraine. Regist. cover from Zhitomir (Ukraine) - 29.12.41 to Dresaen (Germany) arv. 03.01.42.
The Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Reich Commissariat of Ukraine; Ukrainian: Ðàéõñêîì³ñàð³àò Óêðà¿íà) was the civil administration of much of German-occupied Ukraine (which included adjacent areas of modern Belarus and pre-war Poland) during World War II. Between September 1941 and March 1944, the Reichskommissariat was administered by Reichskommissar Erich Koch as a colony. The administration's tasks included the pacification of the region and the exploitation, for German benefit, of its resources and people. Adolf Hitler issued a Fuehrer Decree defining the administration of the newly-occupied Eastern territories on 17 July 1941[1].
Before the German invasion, Ukraine was a constituent republic of the USSR, inhabited by Ukrainians with Russian, Polish, Jewish, Belorussian, German, Roma and Crimean Tatar minorities. It was a key subject of Nazi planning for the post-war expansion of the German state and civilization.
