Wilhelm Kube

[Helge]

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Black myths Wilhelm Kube

September 24, 1943, "Storch" flew from Minsk, heading to Berlin. On board was a coffin with the body of the General District Commissioner General of Belarus Wilhelm Kube. In the window sat Minsk city commissioner, Major William Yanetske administrative services. Below swept fields, forests, lakes, villages covering a total stranger to him the country where it was due to the efforts of the deceased.
As head of the civil administration of the occupation, Hitler appointed Cuba July 17, 1941. July 21 he sent to the Fuhrer's gratitude for the appointment: "For me, this day was ... the most significant day in my life. For my wife it was a courageous happiest day of her life. Their obedience and loyalty we both thank you, my Fuhrer! . " "Momentous" and "happy" the day his wife was named Cuba for a number of reasons. First of all, it meant the forgiveness of the party after five years of business.

With the party of Hitler Cuba threw in his lot with 1927. December 1 he was given a membership card ¼ 71682. A year later, on September 13, Hitler appointed Cuba and the Head of the NSDAP Gauleiter of the province of Ostmark, which in May 1933 was merged with the province of Brandenburg, called Kurmark. Cuba became the chief president. At the time he was a member of the Reichstag, representing the interests of the Nazi faction, ennobling its aristocratic origins plebeian ranks of their Parteigenosse.
Before the advent of Cuba Ostmarka Nazi Party had 60 members there. As a result of its activity, the number of exceeded one thousand, which greatly contributed to Hitler's rise to power. Perhaps, therefore, in the future, Hitler supported Cuba in complex everyday situations.

September 29, 1933 Cuba was named oberfyurera SS, and on 27 January 1934 - Honorary Gruppenfiihrer SS and was awarded a gold party sign. At that time, Cuba met with provincial theater actress Anita Lidenkol, who played his first major role in a play Cuba "Totilla." According to researcher Paul Kohl, "this slipshod stilted tragedy of the last Gothic king Totille after 1933 because of his Nazi content everywhere was put in the Reich." About acquaintance 48-year policy with a young actress could not write if it were not for the actions and the events that followed.

In 1936, Cuba came out of the SS, then for anti-party behavior, embezzlement, defamation of a member of the party was deprived of the post of Gauleiter Kurmark province. The basis for this decision was the anonymous letter, in which the head of the highest court of the party Reichsleiter Walter Buch accused of his wife (the son in law of which was Martin Bormann) - poluevreyka. The author of the letter acknowledged Cuba. It was a heavy blow, but a thorough investigation showed that the anonymous author had lied. Then the Gestapo found and anonymous - Cuba! By the way, the search for "Jewish roots" were not only the favorite pastime Nazis. Doing this for a long time in the Soviet Union, and now there are a lot of geeks, hunted on this topic ... But back to the Third Reich ... Göring, while the Prussian Prime Minister, sent to Cuba to resign. Also in 1936, Cuba was divorced from Margaret Schmidt. With her were two of his sons, 15 and 20 years. Soon he married Anita Lidenkol. As a result of 5 years Cuba had not worked, absent from the political arena. But, remembering his past services to the party, Hitler ordered to leave Cuba, a member of the party and the Reichstag, and also retain the title of Gauleiter. In April 1941, he reminded himself to Hitler, sending birthday greetings. Surviving correspondence on the issue of employment of Cuba shows that assumed different options. In May 41th there was a conversation about the place curator Technical High School and Academy of Medicine of Danzig, at the beginning of June - on-site curator of the University of Königsberg. June 27 Borman notified Reich Dr. Hans Lammers: "The Fuhrer did not want such an appointment Gauleiter retired Cuba, he wishes to Cuba certainly has been appointed to a position of responsibility in the east."

We'll get to Cuba relaxed position curator of higher education in Prussia, many would have turned differently and in the fate of William Yanetske. But Hitler, perhaps, with the filing of Bormann ordered otherwise. If the day of the appointment to Cuba as General Commissioner was, in his own estimation, "significant" and "happy", then Yanetske of his appointment in Minsk this would not have said. By the time of his appointment as Commissioner of the Minsk city he successfully led the maintenance department of district commandants of different cities in Belgium and France.

In mid-August in response to a proposal by Martin Bormann regarding management training for Cuba, Belarus asked to appoint a Commissioner William Yanetske Minsk. Party Chancellery thinking two months. In October, the order of appointment was signed. November 9 Yanetske arrived in Minsk, and the 10th took over from the government's adviser Dr Bernhard Kaiser, who was previously at the same time and the city, and district commissioner.

Cuba at that time was not in the city. He went to his family in Berlin to celebrate his 54th birthday and try to unravel with the Reich Minister Alfred Rosenberg started the wound from the first days of stay in Belarus tangle of contradictions between the civil administration, police and Wehrmacht.

During September and October of letters attacking Cuba Reich Ostland in Riga and East Berlin Minister requests, which essentially boiled down to a desire to be the sole and full representative of the German government - governor of Hitler in the General District Belarus in order to territory entrusted to him without his authority could not act no SS or Wehrmacht.

But no letters, no trip to Berlin could not change anything. It was at this time in the Battle of Moscow collapsed plans for blitzkrieg and predictions of Hitler.

Cuba returned to Minsk at the end of November 1941, and on December 1 in front of the General Commissariat of Liberty Square solemn investiture City Commissioner William Yanetske. To direct authority in the eyes of the administration, the Commissioner General said in his address temperamental speech, noting their personal knowledge, organizational skills, and expressed confidence in the joint fruitful work.
However, the failure of the Blitzkrieg mixed all plans of the Nazis, served as the impetus for the adoption of many of the decisions about which neither Hitler nor the generals did not anticipate. The most pressing issue of the army became a living force, and enterprise workforce. In Germany, there was rampant mobilization, jobs were naked. Hitler decided to cover their workers, exported from occupied territory. So there Ostarbaiter. Yanetske, by order of Cuba, the city government commissioned a particularly thorough account of the population. Manpower was not enough in the Minsk worked for the German army of local businesses. In February 1942 Yanetske sent to the Reich from the children's colony in Kozyrevo 42 of 70 contained in her teens in the labor force in March - Minsk Volksdeutsche 1918 - 1924 years of birth.

It was not enough. Began rounding. Only during the punitive operation called "The Magic Flute" in homes and factories have checked 76,000 adult residents, 350 were sent to the Reich. By September 1943, according to estimates Yanetske, from Minsk has been sent to the Reich 2,500 people.

The city felt a critical shortage of manpower. Directorate of Minsk railway companies and construction companies Wehrmacht Todt were located in the city, demanded urgently fill 9,600 vacancies. At the same time Reichsführer SS ordered until autumn 1943 to dismiss all the Jews. As reported to the head of the Minsk Yanetske labor exchange, they were employed in enterprises of Minsk 8000.

On the "final solution of the Jewish question" Yanetske knew firsthand. But what happened in Minsk, shocked even the iron heart Nazi. Two days before his arrival in the Minsk ghetto, the first terrible pogrom. November 20, when the City Commissioner has accepted the case, there was a second pogrom. Thousands of people were killed. Thus frees up space for Jews deported from Western Europe in Minsk for destruction. The first trucks with seven thousand Jews from the Reich arrived in Minsk on November 10. Municipal Commissioner dealt with their accommodation. After a riot of punitive ghetto was like a battlefield, in homes, on the streets were dead bodies, most of the doomed were killed in Tuchinki. Out from under the dead bodies of selected bloodied, people miraculously survived and returned to the ghetto.

January 5, 1942 Minsk city commissioner Yanetske, violating the chain of command, ie bypassing the Commissioner General of Cuba and Lohse Reich, Reich Minister Rosenberg turned to the letter, in which, referring to information obtained in the SD, reported that he became aware of the direction in the near future from Germany to Minsk 50,000 Jews. Yanetske asked Reich to reverse this decision, as in the ruined city they can be neither place nor feed. In the end, "humane" Cuba has ensured that the transports of Jews from Western Europe were sent, as a rule, not in the Minsk ghetto, and immediately to the places of destruction, and the ghetto riots continued. In September 1943, the Minsk ghetto, at the beginning of the war, there were about 80,000 people, left about 8000.

In the summer of 43rd as a result of the Battle of Kursk ended with a radical change in the course of World War II in favor of the forces of the coalition, Germany went on the defensive on all fronts, orders the Wehrmacht were growing up, they worked the entire economy of the "Third Reich".

While Cuba was trying to solve the issues of German raw materials and labor through political methods, SS, police and Wehrmacht continued to operate on its own. June 3, 1943 Cuba sent a report to Rosenberg representative of the Propaganda Department of General Commissariat laukh who took part in punitive operations under the command of Kurt von Gottberg. The covering letter Cuba wrote: "Advocate after such operations, which end mass shooting people, completely pointless." In addition, the message of Cuba, reported: "If in such a form as hitherto acted the police will continue to operate the Wehrmacht and OT, the next winter we will have not only the guerrillas, and the uprising across the country ...".

In late July, the table background Bach lay staff report of the SS and police in Belarus Kurt von Gottberg. He described in detail the circumstances under which Cuba has torn cooperation with diabetes, and an insult to the SS. Von Bach also received a report from the commander of the Security Police and the SD Eduardo Strauch, who accused Cuba in complete failure as an administrator and as a leader of helplessness. Once these documents have read Himmler, he sent them to Rosenberg, who directed her in Minsk Deputy Alfred Meyer to "seriously warn Cuba."

(By the way, on this basis, some "examiners" are trying to put the military history of Cuba, perhaps the guardian and protector of the Belarusian people. No, Cuba was a Nazi to the bone, and, in contrast to the straight-line SS men, whose hands were stained with blood He only offered to other methods of occupation policy. He offered first to drink the blood (to get to work on the "fatherland" until the last minute), and only then shoot. Humanist! .. Flirting with his "svyadomymi" Belarusians (a bunch of geeks who came to Minsk convoys Wehrmacht) all these Ostrovsky akinchitsami, Kozlovsky and the like scoundrels were to the same thing - serve, divide among his goodness, taken from Jewish apartments, and in return - to develop "MOV" and rejoicing in the fact that over you, next to the swastika "Moon" white-red-white flag. Understandably, and Arsenyev and Kushelev and shkilenki and ganko and others were held in Cuba as "Slavs", that is, according to the racial theory - "Untermensch" subhuman . After winning their fate is hardly anything would be different from those "svyadomyya" destroyed in the ghetto ... Knowing Cuba and even his superiors - Himmler, Rosenberg and others, to doubt the outcome of the other events ... It can not be Cuba was the head of the general county where committed, in his own words, "a bloody orgy", killed hundreds of thousands of people, razed villages, together with the residents. All of this was associated with his name. Verdict Cuba and his "humanity" made history ., Approx. ed.).
At 00 hours 40 minutes 22 September 1943 in his bedroom there was an explosion ...

The duty officer of General Commissariat called on the phone in the apartment Yanetske Cuba at the Theatre (Engels), 27 (e wartime). Shocked Yanetske was only a half hour. There have already been Major-General von Gottberg, head of the Minsk garrison Wehrmacht Major General Sperling, Police Major Bendtsko, Colonel Keller, Colonel Hartmann, Head of the Department of Health Dr. Weber and other heads of departments of the General Commissariat.

In general commissioner was torn left chest and left arm torn off. His poluobgorevshy corpse pulled from a burning bedroom caused the alarm command. Who was asleep next to Cuba's wife Anita, who was eight months pregnant, was in shock. Three young children, who were sleeping in another room, separated bathroom, were not injured.

Cuba's body was placed in the morgue of the former 1st Hospital (now third). Gottberg invited the management team in his office in the General Commissariat of Cuba. Von Gottberg said that the death of Commissioner General was "successfully conciliatory policy toward Cuba to the Belarusian people. Now need to take action." He noted that in Belarus, "the plight of the police," said that "the Commissioner General of the case takes." On the same night Gottberg telegraphed to Hitler's headquarters and the Eastern Department of the incident and the action taken. Before he put the CD to eliminate the problem of the Polish intelligentsia, which was listed in the files of the security services, and to make a public hanging of Soviet patriots in Minsk.

Immediately set up a "big special committee" during the inspection of the scene in the process of sifting the ashes and rubble found a piece of material on which Obersturmfiihrer SS Breyer, on the basis of his previous investigations conducted on the occasion of mine sabotage in various German institutions, found that in this case talking about the balance of the magnetic fuze bombs made in England. The investigation showed the mine was attached to the inside of the mattress Gauleiter of Cuba, on a spring mattress, where it exploded. The commission's report stated: "As a house Gauleiter was guarded day and night personal guard of 12 men, then immediately raised the question of the servants and the people who had access to the room, Gauleiter. Investigation began with the immediate establishment of the individuals who in the last days before Gauleiter attempt visited the house. At the crime scene were arrested and jailed four girls among workers Gauleiter. Their initial check at first did not reveal any relationship with the assassination attempt. However, in the morning of 22/09/1943, it was established that the only servant, who lives due to lack of space outside the house Gauleiter, Elena Mazanik 04.04.1918 born, nicknamed "Galina", is not found in his apartment at STR. Theatre, Building 48, Apt. 10. Her apartment was broken into. It was almost empty. Later DM stopped on the version that mine Mazanik received from Maria Osipova. However, there are many other versions, quite complex. This is not surprising, since the destruction of Cuba was targeted a squad of special groups of different departments - from the NKVD, SMERSH counterintelligence fronts ...

The investigation continued, and the Wilhelm Yanetske September 24 on the plane with the body Wilhelm Kube was sent to Berlin.

September 27 Wilhelm Kube was buried in the cemetery Lankwitz. Hitler was saying goodbye and did not attend the funeral. Was not there and the couple Cuba. She was in Minsk. Only on September 29 at 8 am with three children, a doctor and a midwife, accompanied by Adjutant Cuba Sturmbannfuhrer Videlshteyna SS, the SS officer Gertsiga with his wife and two children, Anita was able to leave Cuba with the Minsk railroad station through Warsaw to Prague where he stayed in the house of the chief of police of the order of the General County General Gerf Belarus. (After the war, he was executed in Minsk.)

Immediately after the funeral of General Commissioner William Yanetske plane was waiting. Germany remained behind and that cargo, which brought it 5 days ago. There was plenty of time for reflection. How is it that the Gauleiter was loaded? On the eve of departure from Minsk were known to the first results of the investigation. Yanetske well represented maid Gauleiter Helen Mazanik - slender, beautiful, open a dazzling smile woman ... Yanetske also knew that in July DM arrested Maria Osipova. Arrested, hold a few days and released. In connection with the murder of Gauleiter criminologists mentioned as a mediator of some Kulikova, but the man of that name was listed among the agents of diabetes. Moreover, in early September, after the explosion of diabetes in the dining room in the city were taken increased security measures. Erich Isselhorst September 8 issued the order to execute 300 hostages. The order was replicated in the form of a poster and posted in public places of the city. And despite these extremely harsh measures not only kill crypto Commissioner General, but were able to leave the city. This was contrary to all logic ...

William Yanetske returned to Minsk on September 30. On the eve of the "big special committee" presented a report about the murder of Cuba. It was found that Mazanik Elena and Maria Osipova from the Partisan airfield flew to Moscow. It was all very strange, and suggests that the SD and SS knew everything and they do not really let penalty Cuba. He was tired of them squabbling, but the war has taken a steep turn and was not up to the sentiment. The best way out seemed that Cuba will be removed from the outside. It happened. Mina decided the fate of the old litigation chicaner Cuba with his wily opponent of the Gestapo ...
October 1, 1943 by order of things has passed Gottberg Yanetske Commissioner Minsk Art. Inspector Herbert Lobel and went to East Berlin in the ministry, believing that it will receive a new assignment. Ministry of the East, he was dismissed on grounds of redundancy, demoted to the ranks.

In March 1944 Yanetske restored to the rank of Major, and then sent to the troops. May 11, 1945 in Brandenburg, he was captured by the Red Army and taken to a prison camp in Minsk. December 31, 1946 th operotdel camp filed a case against him, but Yanetske ill. Until the summer of the 47th was in the camp infirmary due to the worsening of tuberculosis, then in prison ¼ 1 g. Minsk, and on October 2 at the direction of the Minister of Internal Affairs Kruglov was transferred to a prison ¼ 1 AMIA Bobruisk and after a trial was sentenced to 25 years in prison. To some extent, William Yanetske lucky. Have his case heard by the trial is not in Bobruisk and Minsk, the verdict might have been different. In a POW camp in the Ivanovo region it was before May 25, 1953, when an amnesty was released and taken to Frankfurt an der Oder. So the servant survived his master ...

http://minsk-old-new.com/minsk-3000.htm

[Annelie]

For anyone interested in an Russian/German tv military drama
about Hunting the Gauleiter (Wilhelm Kube).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqtHo_SmnTY

so far its quite good...not sure how accurate this series it.

[LegionEuropa]

This man said:

"What The Plague and The Syphilis are for Humanity. The Same Thing, The Jew is for The White Race".

Can someone provide source of this quote?

[Peter]

Kube death certificate

[Linkagain]

Kude did not object to the killing of non german Jews:

Kube participated in an atrocity on 2 March 1942 in the Minsk ghetto. During a search by German and Belarusian police, a group of children were seized and thrown into pits of deep sand to die.
"At that moment, several SS officers, among them Wilhelm Kube, arrived, whereupon Kube, immaculate in his uniform, threw handfuls of sweets to the shrieking children. All the children perished in the sand"

[Michael Miller]

Kude did not object to the killing of non german Jews:

Kube participated in an atrocity on 2 March 1942 in the Minsk ghetto. During a search by German and Belarusian police, a group of children were seized and thrown into pits of deep sand to die.
"At that moment, several SS officers, among them Wilhelm Kube, arrived, whereupon Kube, immaculate in his uniform, threw handfuls of sweets to the shrieking children. All the children perished in the sand"

I've read of this alleged action by Kube but have not seen anything substantive-- e.g., is it an eyewitness account? And if so, who witnessed it?

~ Mike

[Linkagain]

His biography at Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Kube
Quoted from Footnote No 9 {Reference only and credit}

Also Quoted in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_Ghetto
Footnotes 4,5,6, {reference only and credit}

[Michael Miller]

His biography at Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Kube
Quoted from Footnote No 9 {Reference only and credit}

Also Quoted in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_Ghetto
Footnotes 4,5,6, {reference only and credit}

Thank you.
The Minsk Ghetto Wikipedia entry appears to be very poorly researched (e.g., "Kube was executed by partisans"). Hope someone improves it one day.

~ Mike

[Linkagain]

Glad to be of help