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==General Plan East==

==General Plan East==

The General Plan for the East (''Generalplan Ost'') was a 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,<ref>[https://voicefromrussia.ch/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/EN-Anatomy-of-Evil.pdf "Anatomy of Evil". Plans, directives, orders of the military-political leadership of Nazi Germany for the occupation of the USSR], Anatomy of Evil – Plans, Guidelines and Orders of the Military-Political Leadership of Nazi Germany for the Occupation of the USSR.] Mikhail Meltyukhov, 2020.</ref> about half the objective, or between 15.9 and 17.4 million civilians in Russia were murdered.

The General Plan for the East (''Generalplan Ost'') was a 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,<ref>[https://voicefromrussia.ch/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/EN-Anatomy-of-Evil.pdf "Anatomy of Evil". Plans, directives, orders of the military-political leadership of Nazi Germany for the occupation of the USSR], Anatomy of Evil – Plans, Guidelines and Orders of the Military-Political Leadership of Nazi Germany for the Occupation of the USSR.] Mikhail Meltyukhov, 2020.</ref> about half the objective, or between 15.9 and 17.4 million civilians in Russia were murdered.

In his speeches to the [[Wehrmacht]] leadership on July 21 and 31, 1940, German Chancellor [[Adolf Hitler]] emphasized that the coming [[war]] would be "the complete opposite of a normal war in [[the West]] and [[Northern Europe|North of Europe]]," since it envisaged not only the defeat of the enemy's armed forces, but also "the destruction of [[Russia]] as a [[nation state|state]]," with the [[Baltics]], [[Belarus]], and [[Ukraine]] to come under the direct control of [[Germany]].<ref>Halder F. ''War Diary: Daily Entries of the Chief of the General Staff of the Ground Forces, 1939–1942''. In 3 volumes / Translated from German. Volume 2: From the planned invasion of England to the beginning of the Eastern Campaign (1.7.1940–21.6.1941). https://archive.org/stream/HalderWarJournal/Halder%20War%20Journal_djvu.txt</ref>

In his speeches to the [[Wehrmacht]] leadership on July 21 and 31, 1940, German Chancellor [[Adolf Hitler]] emphasized that the coming [[war]] would be "the complete opposite of a normal war in [[the West]] and [[Northern Europe|North of Europe]]," since it envisaged not only the defeat of the enemy's armed forces, but also "the destruction of [[Russia]] as a [[nation state|state]]," with the [[Baltics]], [[Belarus]], and [[Ukraine]] to come under the direct control of [[Germany]].<ref>Halder F. ''War Diary: Daily Entries of the Chief of the General Staff of the Ground Forces, 1939–1942''. In 3 volumes / Translated from German. Volume 2: From the planned invasion of England to the beginning of the Eastern Campaign (1.7.1940–21.6.1941). https://archive.org/stream/HalderWarJournal/Halder%20War%20Journal_djvu.txt</ref>