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Volga river. 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. Civil administration of the territory was to be in Tbilisi, Georgia

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.^[2] 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.^[3] 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. 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. Furthermore, in the event that Turkey was drawn into the war against Germany, Alfred Rosenberg promised these governments territorial extension at the expense of Turkey as well.^[3]

forced labour was only to be recruited from Russians and Ukrainians.^[5]

Baltic German, Stabsleiter Arno Schickedanz, an official at Rosenberg's ministry. He also recommended Hermann Göring, as the Plenipotentiary of the Four Year Plan, to appoint a head of an "oil commission" to work alongside the Commissar.^[6] Dr Hermann Neubacher, the former mayor of Vienna and then a special envoy to the puppet Hellenic State, was to function alongside Schickedanz on the region's economic matters.^[7] Schickedanz reportedly spent considerable time examining sketches of his future palace in Tbilisi and discussing the number of gates it would need.^[8]

Persia.^[9]

Bombay), which also was the frontier of their respective spheres of influence, to the east of which would most likely have been the westernmost reaches of Japan's own Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.^{[citation needed}

Arab units (also known as "Legion Freier Araber" or "Arabian Korps"). It was sent to the Caucasus region in September 1942 for the planned invasion of the Arab lands and saw action against the Red Army.^[10][11] Germany planned to transfer the Mufti and Rashid Ali to Tbilisi after its capture, where an Iraqi government would have been proclaimed, and a declaration issued to the Arab peoples.^[12]

Numan Menemencioğlu on the future of the USSR's Turkic minorities.^[17] Turkish plans featured the establishment of a series of buffer states along the future Turkish-German border and a sphere of influence extending over these states.^[17] Hitler was, however, not ready to make territorial concessions to the country before it fully committed itself to the Axis camp.^[17]