Reichskommissariat Ukraine: Difference between revisions

=== Resistance Movements ===

<blockquote>''"Ukraine and the Eastern lands would produce 7 million, or more likely 10 or 12 million tonnes of grain to provide Germany's food needs." -[[Adolf Hitler]]''</blockquote>Ukraine's economy is hopelessly dependent on agriculture. Little industry that existed prior to Operation Barbarossa, and by some miracle managed to survive the war, was torn down by the new regime, as it had no interest in industrializing their new colony. For the Germans, the purpose of Ukraine is simple, yet incredibly important; '''to feed the [[Einheitspakt]]'''. It has no other use, other than of course to be a settlement frontier for the Aryan race. Despite it being Ukraine's single most productive sector, the Ukrainian locals are always the last on the priority list of mouths to feed, while the Reich's needs take precedence.

That being said however, mechanization and general "modernization" of farms did and continues to take place. Initial agricultural reform was overseen by Alfred Rosenberg, who implemented an "Agrarian '''New Order'''" in Ukraine, ordering the confiscation of Soviet state properties in the name of the German state. Additionally the replacement of Russian Kolkhozes and Sovkhozes, by their own "Gemeindwirtschaften" (German Communal Farms), the installation of state enterprise "Landbewirstschaftungsgessellschaft Ukraine M.b.H." for managing the new German state farms and cooperatives.

The Germans founded numerous "Kombines" (Great German exploitation Monopolies) with government or private capital in the territory, to exploit the local resources.