"On 16 July 1941, Hitler invited Göring, Lammers, Keitel, Rosenberg and Bormann to his office in the Wolf’s Lair for a five-hour meeting about future occupation policies in the east. Right at the start, he told the participants that the true intentions must not be revealed to the outside world. Instead, the official line was to be that the Wehrmacht had to temporarily retain control of the conquered territory to ensure calm and security. ‘It should not become evident that these arrangements will be final!’ Hitler stressed. ‘But we will carry out all necessary measures – executions, expulsions etc. – and continue to do so.’ Summarising his main goal, Hitler said that the idea was to ‘correctly slice the giant cake so that we can firstly rule, secondly administer and thirdly exploit it’. The Baltic states, Crimea with its ‘considerable hinterlands’, the settlements of the Volga Germans and the region around the oil fields of Baku were to become ‘territories of the German Reich’. No foreign military presence was to be tolerated west of the Urals. ‘Nobody must ever be allowed to bear arms except the Germans,’ Hitler demanded. And at the slightest resistance, Germans would make ample use of their weapons. ‘This gigantic expanse must of course be pacified as quickly as possible, and this can be best achieved by shooting everyone who even looks at us the wrong way.’ "
(Volker Ullrich, Hitler Downfall: 1939-45

[Bormann’s notes of the meeting of 16 July 1941 in Der Prozess gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher vor dem internationalen Militärtribunal in Nürnberg, 42 vols, Nuremberg, 1947–9, vol. 38, pp. 86–94; partially reproduced in Gerd R. Ueberschär and Wolfram Wette (ed.), Der deutsche Überfall auf die Sowjetunion: ‘Unternehmen Barbarossa’ 1941, expanded edition, Frankfurt am Main, 2011, pp. 276f. See Jürgen Matthäus and Frank Bajohr (eds), Alfred Rosenberg, Die Tagebücher von 1934 bis 1944, Frankfurt am Main, 2015, pp. 393–9 (entry for 20 July 1941).] )