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farmers learned leadership and how to deal with other peoples [Menschenführung und Völkerbehandlung]. Less so the Generalkommissare; the Reichskommissare did not learn at all. Especially Koch, a prime example of crazed philistinism in global politics, who may be good for pig farming in East Prussia and building settlements in Zichenau, but has become a bane of the Reich‘s Ostpolitik. Not because he had the stature of a great antagonist, but rather – and this is the distressing thing – the fact that he, a little boaster, found most potent support at headquarters must one day be deemed the distinguishing feature of so many events.