Backe Plan
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Backe Plan was a Nazi-era strategy devised by Herbert Backe to exploit agricultural resources in the occupied Soviet Union, deliberately causing mass starvation to support the German war effort.
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nazi economic policy
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genocidal strategy → starvation policy → |
| administeredBy |
Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture
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| alsoKnownAs |
Hunger Plan
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| appliedIn |
occupied Soviet Union
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| associatedWith |
Generalplan Ost
→
Nazi occupation authorities in the East → |
| beneficiary |
German civilian population
→
Wehrmacht → |
| countryOfOrigin |
Nazi Germany
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| devisedBy |
Herbert Backe
NERFINISHED
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| documentedIn |
Nazi economic planning documents for the Eastern campaign
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| geographicFocus |
Baltic states
→
Belarus → Russia → Ukraine → |
| historicalAssessment |
component of the Holocaust by hunger
→
crime against humanity → |
| ideologicalBasis |
Lebensraum policy
→
Nazi racial ideology → |
| implementedDuring |
German invasion of the Soviet Union
→
Operation Barbarossa → |
| justifiedBy |
German food shortages
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| linkedTo |
Herbert Backe’s role as State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture
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| mainObjective |
deliberate mass starvation of local populations
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exploitation of agricultural resources in the occupied Soviet Union → support of the German war effort through food extraction → |
| method |
blocking food deliveries to Soviet cities
→
diversion of food supplies to Germany → prioritizing food for German troops over local civilians → |
| moralCharacterization |
deliberate use of starvation as a weapon
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| policyType |
economic warfare
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food requisition policy → occupation policy → |
| resultedIn |
mass starvation in the occupied Soviet Union
→
millions of deaths from hunger → systematic deprivation of food to non-German populations → worsening of conditions for Soviet prisoners of war → |
| scope |
large-scale reorganization of food distribution in occupied Soviet territories
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| targetedPopulation |
Soviet civilians
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Soviet prisoners of war → urban populations in the Soviet Union → |
| timeOfFormulation |
early 1941
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| timePeriod |
World War II
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Referenced by (1)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
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HungerPlan
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alsoKnownAs |