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Line 54: === Reichskommissar for the Ukraine === On[[File:Erich 1Koch and Rosenberg.jpg\|250px\|thumb\|<center>Erich Koch (right) and <br>Alfred Rosenberg (center)</center>]] On September 1st 1941, Koch became Reichskommissar for the [[Reichskommissariat Ukraine\|Ukraine]] with control of the Gestapo and the uniformed police. As Reichskommissar he had full authority in his realm, which led to conflict with other elements of the Nazi bureaucracy. Alfred Rosenberg, Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories (Reichsministerium für die besetzten Ostgebiete), expressed his disapproval of Koch's autonomous actions to Hitler in 1941. Koch's first act as Reichskommissar was to close local schools, declaring that ''"Ukrainian children need no schools. What they'll have to learn will be taught to them by their German masters."'' His brutality is best exemplified by his remark; ''"If I meet a Ukrainian worthy of being seated at my table,'' '''''I must have him shot."'''''

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