Lamprecht wrote:Frederick Cable Oechesner was an American journalist that reported from Germany between 1929-42, chronicling the rise of National Socialism. He headed the Berlin bureau of what was then the United Press, overseeing correspondents including Richard Helms, who would serve as director of the C.I.A. from 1965 to 1973.
He wrote in June 9, 1942 in The San Bernardino Daily Sun:
Last August when the Russian war had been going on two months and the Pacific outbreak was four months away. Hitler's plan was out lined to me by the best-informed Nazis and I made the following notes:
The area between the Urals, where Japanese influence ended, and a line extending from Leningrad to Moscow to the lower Volga, to be a buffer Jew state where Jews now confined in Poland would be moved to await a permanent solution of the Jewish question.
Oechsner and several American journalists were taken into custody once Germany and the USA went to war. They were released in a prisoner exchange sometime in 1942. There was a book published in November of 1942 called
This is the Enemy that was primarily written by Oechsner with contributions from four others. It's rather biased as is obvious from the title (not to mention Oechsner went on to work for the OSS). But it does have a few worthwhile bits, including a part where he says pretty much the same thing as he does in the newspaper clipping.
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527910From page 353 (chapter 24).
And Russia? There is to be a “distribution of spheres of influence” along a line Leningrad-Moscow-Volga. Everything on the European side of this line shall be a German sphere of influence. In the territory between this line and the Urals a temporary Jewish state is planned until a permanent solution of Jewish settlement can be worked out. Everything that lies on the other side of the Urals, according to Hitler's plan, is to become a Japanese sphere of influence. The Ukraine is to receive, under German supervision, a government of nationalist Ukrainians, not including any persons who had Czarist affiliations, or even their descendants, but only Ukrainians "who have a full conception of National Socialist principles.”
A permanent settlement of the European Jewish problem is meanwhile being worked on. Since before the war, in fact, a special committee has existed, headed by Heinrich Himmler and Martin Bormann, for study of this question. All of the Gauleiters are members of this committee, and the police chiefs of all large German cities are attached as special Referenten, or consultants. The Nazi plan is to transfer all European Jews to the East, where a permanent Jewish state will be set up. Emphasis will be placed on physical labour, and earnings will not be allowed to be above forty marks a week per person, though for each child under age an extra four marks per week will be permitted. Jews will not be allowed to save and accumulate money. All finished goods, such as shoes, clothing, linen, or the raw materials for making them, will have to be bought in "Great Germany.” There will be no rabbis in the orthodox sense; once weekly a religious leader may address congregations, but this man must work at physical labour like all the others. Jews will not be allowed to own automobiles, bicycles, paddle-boats and such. Police duties are to be in the hands of Jews. Marriage with non-Jews is prohibited; Jewish abortions are not to be punishable.
The interesting thing about this is that it's so geographically precise unlike other more vague statements about "the East."
Chapter 11 is also of some interest as it describes the familiar story of anti-Jewish policies and deportations yet at the same time it does not suggest the extermination of six million people. On page 130, it refers to massacres in Eastern Europe but the numbers are well below the usual Holocaust numbers.
Years before the Nazis came to power Hitler and Streicher had sworn their revenge on the Jews, and pitilessly and systematically this promised vengeance is being exacted today. At least 200,000 Jews—probably the full number never will be known— in occupied Russia, the Baltic States and Poland were slaughtered by Nazi execution squads between the outbreak of war and spring, 1942. Millions more throughout German-controlled Europe have been and still are being driven from their homes and businesses into ghettos.
