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Reichskommissariat Turkestan (also spelled as Turkistan, abbreviated as RKT), was a projected Reichskommissariat that Germany proposed to create in the Central Asian Republics of the Soviet Union in its military conflict with that country during World War II.〔Dallin, Alexander (1958). ''German rule in Russia 1941–1945: A Study of Occupation Policies'', (p. 65 ) (see note 1). Westview press.〕 Soviet historian Lev Bezymenski claimed that names Panturkestan, Großturkestan ("Greater Turkestan") and Mohammed-Reich ("Mohammedan Empire") were also considered for the territory. The proposal for a Reichskomissariat in this region was made by Nazi ideologist Alfred Rosenberg, however it was rejected by Adolf Hitler who told Rosenberg that Nazi plans ought to be restricted to Europe for the time being.〔Alexander Dallin. German rule in Russia, 1941-1945: a study of occupation policies. Westview Press, 1981. P. 53.〕 ==Background== Prior to the start of Operation Barbarossa, Rosenberg included the ethnically mainly Turkic and Muslim areas of the USSR in Central Asia in his plans for the future establishment of German supremacy in the remnants of the Soviet Union due to their historical antagonism to the extension of Russian control over the area, in spite of his doubts that German conquests would reach that far east.〔Berkhoff, Karel Cornelis (2004). ''Harvest of despair: life and death in Ukraine under Nazi rule'', (p. 47. ) Copyright by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.〕 His original proposal entailed the creation of a string of "de-Russified" and German-friendly suzerainties around the Russian "core area" of Muscovy, which was to be deprived of its access to the Baltic and Black Seas. These entities were Greater Finland, the Baltic region, White Ruthenia (Belarus), Greater Ukraine, Greater Caucasia, Turkestan, Idel-Ural, and Siberia, while a stretch of territory on the western frontier with Germany was to become either part of it or otherwise be under its direct control.〔 This suggestion was rejected by Adolf Hitler due to not meeting his stated objective of acquiring sufficient ''Lebensraum'' in the east for Germany. On Hitler's orders the proposal for a German civil administration in Central Asia was also shelved by Rosenberg at least for the immediate future, who was instead directed to focus his work on the European parts of the USSR for the time-being.〔 Rosenberg received advisories on the Turkestan question from Uzbek emigrant Veli Kayyun Han,〔 who from August 1942 headed the Berlin-based collaborating Turkestan National Committee under the auspices of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Reichskommissariat Turkestan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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