The troops were instructed to treat the native people as friends, and forced labour was only to be recruited from Russians and Ukrainians. At the request of the army, Hitler authorized the German forces to give individual ethnic groups of the Caucasus measure of self-administration still short of national independence in a FР“Сhrer order dated 8 September 1942, as Rosenberg had also proposed. Proposals pertaining to autonomy for the Caucasus nationalities were better received from the army than from Rosenberg, to which Hitler only demanded that specific promises of national independence be deleted from any official army proclamations so as not to make any binding promises. While determining that the Caucasus had to be severed from Russia in any scenario, he did not however decide or had any established notions whether the Caucasus would have to be annexed to Germany or not, nor what form the German administration should ultimately take. Instead he believed that the region, with its history of mutually warring states and peoples would have to be subjected to a very rigid type of control. While Hitler agreed with this assessment, he rejected the proposals for the establishment of a loosely controlled confederacy in the Caucasus. Rosenberg stated that the primary German objective in the region was to attain unlimited access to the oil supplies of Maikop and Groznyi. Furthermore, in the event that Turkey was drawn into the war against Germany, Alfred Rosenberg promised these governments territorial extention at the expense of Turkey as well.

These three proto-governments, and those of the North Caucasus were ordered to settle their territorial differences by Adolf Hitler during the German advance into the Caucasus. Regarded as embryonic governments of these future satellites by the Nazi government, they were granted the status of 'full-right allies' of Germany on April 15, 1942. After the invasion of the Soviet Union, plans were also made for the creation of pro-German client states in the Caucasus, and the 'Liberation Committees' of Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia were set up.

Civil administration of the territory was to be in Tiflis, Georgia.Р”Р„lfred Rosenberg argued that the Reich Commissar of Caucasus should be instead called 'Reich Resident' ( resident-general), because he deemed the former name being 'too drastic ' and unnecessary and that each component commissariat such as Georgia and Armenia should be called a Land and be given statuses of 'state entities' under German protection.

Major cities to be included were among others Rostov, Krasnodar and Maykop in the west, Stavropol, Astrakhan, Elista, Makhachkala in the east, and Grozny, Nalchik, Vladikavkaz, Yerevan and Baku in the south. Reichskommissariat Kaukasus theoretically included all of Transcaucasia and Ciscaucasia (the North Caucasus), as well as parts of Southern Russia as far as the Volga river. Theoretical planning of German Caucasian province 2.5 Generalkommissariat fР“Сr die Gebiete der BergvР“В¶lker (Berg-Kaukasien).1 Theoretical planning of German Caucasian province.

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