Did Hitler say: “Then we will defeat Russia when Ukrainians and Belarusians believe that they are not Russians”?

On the network you can find a statement that refers to the importance of influence on the self -consciousness of the East Slavic peoples. We checked whether its author is really a German Fuhrer.

In 2010, the World Court of Perm after the prosecutor's audit fined Two local residents, who, in the framework of the “Wisdom of the World” action with the city mayor, placed stickers with aphorism in urban transport “We will win Russia then when Ukrainians and Belarusians believe that they are not Russians.” The prosecutor's office claimed that the author of the saying is Adolf Hitler.

In 2016, the focus of the Russian media was Auswais - a certificate allegedly belonging to the Hauptsturmfuhrer of the SS “Galicia” division Roman Celei and fell into the hands of Russian journalists. At a turn, it was decorated with the same quote in German and Ukrainian, signed by the Fuhrer. About this in the program "News of the Week" told Leading Dmitry Kiselev.

In 2023, a quote video laid out On the official page of the city administration of Irkutsk, accompanying it with the hashtags #non -factoryism and #Janet.

In different years, these cases were reported "Channel One","Russian newspaper","Russian service BBC","Kommersant" And RBC. Quote can be found in "Live magazine»And various online collections aphorisms.

To begin with, the case with Ausweis. The authenticity of the document represented by Kiselev immediately raised big questions. As it turned out, the photograph on it really belongs Hauptsturmführera SS, but not to the novel, but Walter Schmidt, and the document itself as a souvenir can be bought for Internet asociation. In one of the following issues of Vesti of the Week Dmitry Kiselev Recognizedthat Auswis turned out to be a fake.

Now about quote. The text that is issued for its German original in the document, as shown publications In the German -speaking press, it generally has little in common with Hitler’s native language and spelling of that time. Journalists Nikolai Klimenyuk and Alexey Kovalev We came to the conclusionthat the compilers of the false Ausweis combined the result of the work of two online translators at once-Yandex and Google. This at least means that the authors of the document could not or did not want to find the original, already popular by 2016 in Runet quotes. “Verified” also did not find a German -speaking quote from Ausweis or at least a competent version of its transfer from Russian to German in other sources - not in the project ”Google Books", Not in"The archive of the Internet", Not in individual publications of Hitler's books in German.

Moreover, the Russian -speaking version of the quote “We will win Russia then when Ukrainians and Belarusians believe that they are not Russians” is not found on sites earlier 2008, and in the project "Google Book" first appears in 1994 - in the work of Vladimir Zakharenkov and Mikhail Shutov "Russian redistribution: Essays on modern history of Russia". At the same time, the book does not say anything about the source of the phrase or the circumstances when it was uttered - it is simply brought as a quote appropriate in context. Journal "Light" ("Nature and Man"), whose employees were Authors, known as the cognitive publication “for folk reading” and did not gain any authority in the scientific environment.

IN publications On the website of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation dedicated to the Perm Promotion of 2010, it seems to be the source of the quote: the book of the British historian Hugh alarm-Rooper “Great conversations of Hitler 1941-1944”, first published in 1953. It is a compilation monologues The Fuhrer recorded by his close ones. For the content of these publications, today's scientists have Big questionsbut neither refut, nor confirm the reliability of these texts today in view of the absence of other witnesses of the Fuhrer’s conversations given by the historian.

However, the point here is not even the authenticity of books. “Retrieved” did not find in the book of the Truper-Rover nothing, similar to the desired quote, not to Russiannor in original. There is no mainly source of the book of Rooper-the same name work Henry Picker, Hitler's stenographer (both publications in Russia are included in Federal list of extremist materials). There is no such phrase in a friend of the publication Hitler’s monologues recorded by the ministerial adviser Henry Haim. Moreover, the idea of ​​Belarusians as an ethnic group, which, in order to win Nazism, supposedly should believe in his separate national identity, somewhat contradicts the quote “due to the lack of national feeling, they would soon be fully Germanized in the nearest generation.”

The closest phrase is possible Meet In the appendix to one of the publications of Picker’s book, namely, in “Comments and suggestions according to the General Plan“ OST ”the Reichsfuhrer of the SS troops.” But it belongs not to Hitler, but by the expert of the Ministry of the occupied eastern territories, Erhard Vetzel: “The Russian Gorky General Commissariat should be instilled in the feeling that it is something different from the Russian from the Tula General Commissariat. There is no doubt that such administrative crushing of the Russian territory and the systematic isolation of individual regions will be one of the means of combating the strengthening of the Russian people. ”

Nevertheless, this quote can hardly be called the complete equivalent of the desired. In all likelihood, the error of Russian prosecutors indicating the work of Hugh alarm-Rooper as a source of quote comes from the book of a Russian journalist and political figure Maxim Kalashnikov "The war with the golem"(2006). The journalist gives several genuine and literal quotes from the Rooper and one absent, despite the mention of a particular period (summer of 1941).

Thus, for the first time the desired quote is found only in Russian in the 1990s, and in unauthorized sources, which makes Hitler’s authorship extremely unlikely.

Photo on the cover: Wikimedia Commons

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