German war of annihilation in the East

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Nazi war crime component of the Holocaust military campaign war of extermination

The German war of annihilation in the East was Nazi Germany’s ideologically driven campaign during World War II to conquer, exploit, and systematically destroy populations in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, particularly targeting Jews and other groups deemed undesirable.

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Label	Occurrences
German war of annihilation in the East canonical	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nazi war crime ⓘ component of the Holocaust ⓘ military campaign ⓘ war of extermination ⓘ
aimedAt	conquest of territory for German settlement ⓘ elimination of perceived racial and political enemies ⓘ exploitation of economic resources ⓘ
basedOn	Generalplan Ost ⓘ
characterizedBy	destruction of entire communities ⓘ forced labor ⓘ large-scale deportations ⓘ starvation as a weapon of war ⓘ systematic mass murder of civilians ⓘ
hasKeyEvent	Operation Barbarossa ⓘ deportations to extermination camps ⓘ ghettoization of Jewish populations ⓘ mass shootings by Einsatzgruppen ⓘ siege warfare against Soviet cities ⓘ starvation policies against civilians ⓘ systematic murder of Soviet POWs ⓘ
hasMainBelligerent	Nazi Germany ⓘ
hasTargetPopulation	Jews ⓘ Roma people ⓘ surface form: Roma and Sinti Slavic civilians ⓘ Soviet prisoners of war ⓘ communists ⓘ other groups labeled “undesirable” by the Nazi regime ⓘ people with disabilities ⓘ political commissars ⓘ
hasTargetRegion	Eastern Europe ⓘ Soviet Union ⓘ
historicallyAnalyzedAs	ideologically driven war rather than conventional military conflict ⓘ
implementedBy	Einsatzgruppen ⓘ German police units ⓘ Nazi civil administration in occupied territories ⓘ SS ⓘ Wehrmacht ⓘ
motivatedBy	Lebensraum ⓘ surface form: Lebensraum policy Nazi racial ideology ⓘ anti-Slavic racism ⓘ anti-communism ⓘ antisemitism ⓘ
partOf	Nazi Germany’s war in Eastern Europe ⓘ World War II ⓘ
recognizedAs	crime against humanity ⓘ part of the genocide of European Jews ⓘ
startTime	1941 ⓘ

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Subject: German war of annihilation in the East
Description of subject: The German war of annihilation in the East was Nazi Germany’s ideologically driven campaign during World War II to conquer, exploit, and systematically destroy populations in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, particularly targeting Jews and other groups deemed undesirable.

Referenced by (1)

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German civil administration in the East → partOf → German war of annihilation in the East ⓘ