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to be different methods of treating particular nations and even particular groups within them. Attempts were even made to establish the basic criteria to be used in determining whether a given group lent itself to Germanization. These criteria were to be applied more liberally in the case of nations whose racial material (

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For the Germans, eastern Europe represented their "Manifest Destiny." Hitler and other Nazi thinkers drew direct comparisons to American expansion in the West. During one of his famous "table talks," Hitler decreed that "there's only one duty: to Germanize this country by the immigration of Germans

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kids and indoctrinate them with Nazi doctrines. Special institutes for children in occupied territories were operated to separate kids who were categorised by Nazi authorities as "racially suitable" from the local inhabitants, wherein they were indoctrinated to be transferred to families in Germany.

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campaign as part of the GPO. According to the plan, by 1952 only about 3–4 million 'non-Germanized' Poles (all of them peasants) were to be left residing in the former Poland. Those of them who would still not Germanize were to be forbidden to marry, the existing ban on any medical help to Poles in

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According to Nazi intentions, attempts at Germanization were to be undertaken only in the case of those foreign nationals in Central and Eastern Europe who could be considered a desirable element for the future Reich from the point of view of its racial theories. The plan stipulated that there were

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To this number of victims should be added Jews who died in captivity, as well as Jews who were exterminated on the territory of Russia (mainly in the North Caucasus), where they evacuated in 1941 and where they were caught by the Germans in 1942. Number of Jews who perished can be estimated at 1.6

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Hitler's vision was to recreate and remodel this kind of colonial process. In particular, he envisioned a colonization alike to America's Manifest Destiny, but instead occurring in Eastern Europe, whereby the Volga river would become the Mississippi, and the Slavs would become the Native Americans

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Despite German opposition to their attempts of state-formation, Baltic natives were classified as "superior" to Slavs in the Nazi racial hierarchy. Therefore, German authorities implemented a deeper scale of collaborationist policy in the Baltic society. Nazi collaborationists amongst the Latvian,

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officers began proposing collaborationist policies with the natives, with the purpose of advancing German economic and geo-strategic interests. Even as deteriorating conditions in the front brought around a change in military strategy, speeches of various Wehrmacht generals continued to explicitly

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element in a race of inferior worth. ... This colossal empire in the East is ripe for dissolution. And the end of the Jewish domination in Russia will also be the end of Russia as a state. We are chosen by destiny to be the witnesses of a catastrophe which will afford the strongest confirmation of

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proposal offered various percentages of the conquered or colonized people who were targeted for removal and physical destruction; the net effect of which would be to ensure that the conquered territories would become German. In ten years' time, the plan effectively called for the extermination,

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to western Siberia. While the Estonians would be spared repressions and physical liquidation (that the Jews and the Poles were experiencing), in the long term the Nazi planners did not foresee their existence as independent entities and they would ultimately be deported as well, with eventual

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Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were to be deprived of their statehood, while their territories were to be included in the area of German settlement. This meant that Latvia and especially Lithuania would be covered by the deportation plans, though in a somewhat milder form than the expulsion of

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The planning had included implementation cost estimates, which ranged from 40 to 67 billion Reichsmarks, the latter figure being close to Germany's entire GDP for 1941. A cost estimate of 45.7 billion Reichsmarks was included in the spring 1942 version of the plan, in which more than half the

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expenditure was to be allocated to land remediation, agricultural development, and transport infrastructure. This aspect of the funding was to be provided directly from state sources and the remainder, for urban and industrial development projects, was to be raised on commercial terms.

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brought about starvation, as it was intended to do to depopulate that region for German settlement. Soldiers were told to steel their hearts against starving women and children, because every bit of food given to them was stolen from the German people, endangering their nourishment.

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Under this master plan, up to 80 million Russians were to be driven out of the newly established German colonial lands into the areas beyond the Urals, whereby the planners were well aware that several million (up to 30 million, to be more exact) would not survive

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living behind the front lines of East-Central Europe. The "Small Plan" was to be put into practice as the Germans conquered the areas to the east of their pre-war borders. After the war, under the "Big Plan", more people in Eastern Europe were to be affected.

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was deliberately destroyed shortly before Germany's defeat in May 1945, and the full proposal has never been found, though several documents refer to it or supplement it. Nonetheless, most of the plan's essential elements have been reconstructed from related

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agenda. Child indoctrination institutions which hosted numerous Belarussian children forcibly were also opened, wherein kids categorised as "racially suitable" were prepared to be transferred to Germany. The first of these centres in Belarus was set up in

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were averse to initiating agreements with Slavic natives. Hitler was strongly opposed to the entry of Slavic volunteers into the German army and issued orders to disarm the natives. The initial assessment of Hitler and Wehrmacht generals was that

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commanders wanted to portray Germans as "liberators" of Eastern Europe and incite anti-communist dissidents to foment a pro-Axis partisan warfare against Soviet Union, Nazi ruling elites sought outright suppression of what they regarded as Slavic

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Despite the obstruction of German war efforts by the colonization policies and scorched earth tactics unleashed against native populations, Himmler dogmatically pursued the implementation of GPO programme and proposed the further expansion of

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Original Nazi plans advocated the extermination of 65 percent of 23.2 million Ukrainians, with the survivors treated as chattel slaves. Over 2,300,000 Ukrainians were deported to Germany and forced into Nazi slave labor.

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or violent eradication. After forcibly expelling or exterminating an estimated 5-6 millions of its native inhabitants, these lands were then supposed to be handed over to Germanic settlers for implementing the

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Wetzel, Erhard (27 April 1942). Stellungnahme und Gedanken zum Generalplan Ost des Reichsführers S.S. [Opinion and thoughts on the master plan for the East of the Reichsführer SS] (Memorandum).

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as part of the GPO. Out of the 3.2 million Soviet prisoners captured by German forces by December 1941, approximately 2 million had been killed by February 1942, mostly through forced starvation,

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Madajczyk, Czesław (1980). "Die Besatzungssysteme der Achsenmächte. Versuch einer komparatistischen Analyse" [Occupation modalities of the Axis powers. A possible comparative analysis].

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of that intellectual class which had once created the Russian state and were the guarantee of its existence. For the Russian state was not organized by the constructive political talent of the

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Germany would be extended, and eventually Poles would cease to exist. Experiments in mass sterilization in concentration camps may also have been intended for use on the populations. The

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territories were annexed by Germany, Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria. Despite the vast population of Slavs in Yugoslavia, Nazi Germany mainly focused on targeting the nation's Jewish and

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in April 1942. The third version was officially dated June 1942. The final version of the Master Plan for the East came from the RKFDV on October 29, 1942. However, after the German

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in 1999, Nazi Germany sought to exterminate the entire urban populace (approximately 2 million) and half the rural population (nearly 4.3 million) of Belorussia alone, through

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military commanders on 31 July 1940, Hitler announced his "final decision" to "finish off" Russia through the initiation of a large military invasion in the spring of 1941.

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completely, and in 15–20 years the Polish state under German occupation was to be fully cleared of any ethnic Poles and settled by German colonists. A majority of them, now

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stated that "the wholesale extermination was first directed at Jews and also at Poles and had all the characteristics of genocide in the biological meaning of this term."

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envisaged the mass-killings, enslavement and ethnic cleansing of Slavic inhabitants of Eastern Europe, followed by the colonization of these lands with Germanic settlers.

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death squads and concentration camps had been employed to deal with the Polish elite, while the small number of Czech intelligentsia were allowed to emigrate overseas.

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throughout the region and forcibly expelled natives en masse to the east. Nazi officials then charted out buffer zones intended to serve as future Nordic settlements.

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in operational areas presented the highest political and military leaders with a welcome opportunity to carry out their plans, namely, the systematic extermination of

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progressed successfully. It was a confidential proposal whose content was known only to those at the top level of the Nazi hierarchy; it was circulated by RSHA to the

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Nazi Germany conducted its warfare in the Eastern Front as a colonialist campaign of plunder and slaughter, involving the unhinged looting of resources and wholesale

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Approximately 1.5 million of the approximately 5.7 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust came from within the borders of what is today Ukraine – Dieter Pohl

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Naimark, Norman (2023). "15: The Nazis and the Slavs - Poles and Soviet Prisoners of War". In Kiernan, Ben; Lower, Wendy; Naimark Norman; Straus, Scott (eds.).

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GPO also envisaged the forced expulsion of around 80 million Russians beyond the Urals, with Nazi planners estimating the deaths of approximately 30 million

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Nazi savagery against Soviet prisoners of war, which resulted in the deaths of approximately 3.3 million captured Soviet detainees, was denounced by the

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was Nazi Germany's strategy to forcibly starve around 31 to 45 million Eastern Europeans by capturing food stocks and redirecting them to German forces.

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denationalisation; initial designs were for Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia to be Germanised within 25 years; Heinrich Himmler revised them to 20 years.

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The preliminary versions were discussed by Heinrich Himmler and his most trusted colleagues even before the outbreak of war. This was mentioned by SS-

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aimed at the forced deportations of hundreds of millions of Eastern European natives beyond the Urals and in the slaughter of more than 60 million

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proposal. It came to light only in 1957. Wetzel's report has enabled attempts to re-construct the document on GPO prepared by RSHA's 3rd office.

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Although racist views against Slavs had precedent in German society before Hitler's rule, Nazi anti-Slavism was also based on the doctrines of

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was advancing deep inside Soviet territories while facing little or no local insurrections, Adolf Hitler had contemplated the utility of

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Exploitation, Resettlement, Mass Murder: Political and Economic Planning for German Occupation Policy in the Soviet Union, 1940-1941

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conducted across occupied Eastern Europe was also used as an opportunity by German authorities to advance the objectives of GPO and

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evolved from these racist, imperialist ideas and was formulated by the Nazi regime as its official policy during the course of the

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and the border states subject to her. Destiny itself seems to wish to point out the way for us here. In delivering Russia over to

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in occupied territories, collaborationism was also incited amongst the native inhabitants to assist Nazi Germany in implementing

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Rkfdv: German Resettlement and Population Policy 1939–1945: A History of the Reich Commission for the Strengthening of Germandom

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discussions about the Generalplan Ost – which foresaw up to 70 million Russians being deported to Siberia and left to perish

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military apparatus, packed with militants ideologically indoctrinated to view Slavs as subhumans, fanatically implemented "

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element in Russia, but was much more a marvellous exemplification of the capacity for state-building possessed by the

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Rasse, Siedlung, deutsches Blut. Das Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt der SS und die rassenpolitische Neuordnung Europas

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Lithuanian and Estonian natives were given senior posts in the administrative bodies of the German occupation. In

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could be completed within months without any outside support. During a speech in 16 July 1941, Hitler proclaimed:

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in mind. They massacred millions of Jews in Eastern Europe, in addition to millions to Soviet prisoners of war.

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As a matter of fact, Hitler wanted to commit Genocide against the Slavic peoples, in order to colonize the East

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and other non-Jews were mass-murdered as part of Nazi extermination policies implemented across the regions of

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The Forgotten Holocaust: The systematic genocide on the Slavic people by the Nazis during the Second World War

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Musterkolonie des Rassenstaats: Togo in der kolonialpolitischen Propaganda und Planung Deutschlands 1919-1943

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and implicitly designate German fighters as "the last bulwark of European civilisation against Slav hordes".

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The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics, 1927–1945. Crossing boundaries

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The plan was a work in progress. There are four known versions of it, developed as time went on. After the

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The extermination document for the Slavic people of Eastern Europe did survive the war and was quoted by

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Institute of Agriculture in Berlin, 1942, covering the Baltic states, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine and Russia

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Eichholtz, Dietrich. "Der Generalplan Ost." Über eine Ausgeburt imperialistischer Denkart und Politik,

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From Windhoek to Auschwitz?: Reflections on the Relationship between Colonialism and National Socialism

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From Windhoek to Auschwitz?: Reflections on the Relationship between Colonialism and National Socialism

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From Windhoek to Auschwitz?: Reflections on the Relationship between Colonialism and National Socialism

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From Windhoek to Auschwitz?: Reflections on the Relationship between Colonialism and National Socialism

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From Windhoek to Auschwitz?: Reflections on the Relationship between Colonialism and National Socialism

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Himmler's notorious policies included the weaponization of schooling system in occupied territories to

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indiscriminately against the native populations, in operations labelled "anti-partisan undertakings".

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Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany launched forced starvations and advanced a "war of annihilation" (

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Aktenvermerk vom 16. Juli 1941 über eine Besprechung Hitlers mit Rosenberg, Lammers, Keitel und Göring

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The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939 – March 1942

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to prepare a war-plan to eliminate what he described as the "Russian problem". In a meeting before

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Nazi racial plan of enslavement and genocide of Slavic people living in Central and Eastern Europe

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and other documents. Following the war, two out of the three primary records associated with the

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to aid German economy and military industry. By late 1943, millions of captives were employed in

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and other occupation policies. The remaining populations were to be forcibly deported beyond the

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on a vast scale to be undertaken in the Eastern European territories occupied by Germany during

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against native populations. German occupation policies in Eastern Europe were characterized by

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Der 'Generalplan Ost': Hauptlinien der nationalsozialistischen Plaungs-und Vernichtungspolitik

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action. The outline of Poland (here superimposed in red) was missing from the original poster.

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German implementation of Nazi racial principles, combined with the severity of the war in the

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of the majority of Slavic inhabitants by various means - mass killings, forced starvations,

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Slaughter of more than sixty million Slavic, Jewish and Romani inhabitants of Eastern Europe

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in April 1941, Nazi Germany partitioned the country and installed puppet dictatorships in

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Dotted black line – the extension of a detailed plan of the "second phase of settlement" (

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Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History

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was only partially implemented during the war in territories occupied by Germany on the

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Plan of new German settlement colonies (marked with dots and diamonds), drawn up by the

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a partisans’ war also has its advantage; it enables us to eradicate what is against us.

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ceased to be part of that particular framework gaining a lethal, autonomous priority.

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Between 1940 and 1943, Himmler supervised the drafting of at least five variants of

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in 2010. It shows that ethnic Poles, Ukrainians and Czechs were primary targets of

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were annexed by Germany early in the war (leaving aside the rump German-controlled

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Generation of the unbound: the leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office

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were abducted from Eastern Europe, mostly in the Soviet territories and Poland.

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were also involved in the formulating the GPO plans. According to testimony of

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A ridiculous hundred million Slavs : Concerning Adolf Hitler's world-view

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by the local populations, which would cause the Poles to vanish as a nation.

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over a period of twenty-five years. Implementing it would have necessitated

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advances gave way to a war of attrition and as German losses mounted, some

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by Germanic settlers, and it was carried out through systematic massacres,

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