In that position, Bräutigam was involved in the Holocaust, but notably voiced opposition to the Reich's brutal policies in Eastern Europe.
Promise them something that guarantee their future... due to our cruel policies the Russian nationalist are uniting with the Bolsheviks against us.It did not take the population of the east long to recognize that we are not there to destroy Bolshevism, but we are there to replace it.Bräutigam's top-secret report to his superiors in the Reichskommissariat Ostland fell on deaf ears.
Shirer described the report as "daring and exceptional" in which Bräutigam had written: We now experience the grotesque spectacle that after the tremendous starvation of prisoners of war, millions of foreign laborers must be recruited to fill the gaps which have appeared in Germany.
With the usual unlimited abuse of Slav people, "recruiting" methods were used which can only be compared with the blackest periods of the slave trade.
We are interested in feeding them only insofar as they are still capable (and they are given to understand that in every aspect we regard them as inferior).Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler welcomed the idea by 1942.