The General Plan for the East (''Generalplan Ost'') was written memoranda for the extermination of 30 million [[Russian]]s and other "[[subhumans]]" in [[Nazi]] parlance to create living space (''[[Lebensraum]]'') for the German population. According to a 2020 study, about half the objective, or between 15.9 and 17.4 million civilians in Russia were murdered.