Chronology of World War II
Nazis to exploit occupied Soviet lands
Monday, November 17, 1941 www.onwar.com

Alfred RosenbergIn Berlin... Hitler appoints Rosenberg, the Nazi ideologist to head the new Reich Ministry for Occupied Eastern Territories. His mandate is to remove "undesirable elements" and to exploit the areas for German economic benefit. He will issue orders which involve the extermination of local populations, seizing of all goods and assets from the occupied areas. 

On the Eastern Front... The First Panzer Group continues its advances near Rostov, however, the Soviet 9th and 37th Armies under General Timoshenko, begin a counterattack on the flank of the German drive.


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