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A major document which enabled historians to accurately reconstruct the Generalplan Ost was a memorandum released on April 27, 1943, by Erhard Wetzel, director of the NSDAP Office of Racial Policy, entitled "Opinion and thoughts on the master plan for the East of the Reichsführer SS".
The year is wrong. Standard reconstructions identify Wetzel's memorandum on Generalplan Ost as dating to April 27, 1942, not 1943.
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The article gives the Wetzel memorandum the wrong year.
Multiple reconstructions of Generalplan Ost identify the key Wetzel memorandum as dating from 27 April 1942:
- 1000 Schlüsseldokumente explains that historians rely on two comments by Erhard Wetzel from April 1942 to reconstruct the RSHA version of Generalplan Ost.
- A secondary reference summarizing the document history dates the memorandum precisely to 27 April 1942 and gives its title as Stellungnahme und Gedanken zum Generalplan Ost des Reichsführers-SS.
- A Cambridge Core article snippet likewise refers to "Erhard Wetzel on the Generalplan Ost of 27 April 1942."
So the article's date "April 27, 1943" is off by one year.
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- Generalplan Ost - 1000 Schlüsseldokumente
Wie sich aus zwei Kommentaren des Referenten für Rassenpolitik im Reichsministerium für die besetzten Ostgebiete, Dr. Erhard Wetzel, vom April 1942 schließen lässt, sollten aus dem besetzten Raum innerhalb von 30 Jahren ... 31 Millionen „fremdvölkische“ Menschen „ausgesiedelt“ werden.
- Generalplan Ost | Operations & Codenames of WWII
The principal document which makes it possible to recreate with a great deal of accuracy the contents of Generalplan Ost is a memorandum of 27 April 1942 entitled Stellungnahme und Gedanken zum Generalplan Ost des Reichsführers-SS.
- Nazis and Slavs: From Racial Theory to Racist Practice | Central European History | Cambridge Core
Erhard Wetzel on the Generalplan Ost of 27 April 1942 in ibid., 57.