| − | [[File:Generalplan Ost-en.svg.png|right|300px|thumb|Plan of new German settlement colonies (marked with dots and diamonds), drawn up by the Friedrich Wilhelm University Institute of Agriculture in Berlin, 1942, covering the [[Baltic states]], Belarus, Ukraine, [[Crimea]] and Russia. | + | [[File:Generalplan Ost-en.svg.png|right|300px|thumb|Plan of new German settlement colonies (marked with dots and diamonds), drawn up by the Friedrich Wilhelm University Institute of Agriculture in Berlin, 1942, covering the [[Baltic states]], Belarus, Ukraine, [[Crimea]] and Russia.]] |
| | 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. |