This article discusses the perception of the Second world war and in particular the war against the USSR, by the German writers of the Third Reich period, who expressed the official point of view (E. E. Dwinger, G. Baumann, Schumann) and the attitude of opposition (H. Lange, M. Raschke) concerning the ideology of the ongoing war (the liberation of Europe from Bolshevism and colonization of Russia), and showed the relation to the methods of warfare and to the Russian people as a nation. RUSSIA, SUB-HUMAN, COLONIZATION, BOLSHEVISM, THE POETICS