HungerPlan

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HungerPlan was a Nazi German policy of deliberate mass starvation during World War II, designed to exploit food resources in the occupied Soviet territories and resulting in the deaths of millions, including large numbers of Soviet prisoners of war.


Statements (49)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi policy
crime against humanity
starvation policy
war crime
alsoKnownAs Backe Plan
Hunger Plan
Starvation Plan
appliesToTerritory Eastern Europe
Soviet Union
occupied Soviet territories
architect Herbert Backe
consideredAs component of the Holocaust by some historians
countryOfOrigin Nazi Germany
goal deliberate mass starvation
diversion of food to Germany
exploitation of food resources in occupied Soviet territories
support of the German war economy
weakening of the Soviet population
historicalContext German invasion of the Soviet Union
Operation Barbarossa
ideologicalBasis Lebensraum policy
Nazi racial ideology
implementedBy German military authorities
Nazi civil administration in the East
Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories
Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture
mainPerpetrator Nazi Germany
method blockade of food supplies to cities
denial of food to prisoners of war
rationing policies favoring Germans
seizure of agricultural produce
partOf Generalplan Ost
Nazi German occupation policy in the East
perpetratorOrganization German civil administration in the East
Nazi Party
Wehrmacht
relatedTo Commissar Order
Generalplan Ost
Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union
result death of large numbers of Soviet prisoners of war
devastation of agriculture in occupied Soviet territories
mass starvation
millions of deaths
startTime 1941
targetPopulation Jewish population in occupied Soviet territories
Soviet civilians
Soviet prisoners of war
urban populations in the Soviet Union
timePeriod World War II

Referenced by (9)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Backe Plan ("Hunger Plan")
HungerPlan ("Hunger Plan")
HungerPlan ("Starvation Plan")
alsoKnownAs
Herbert Backe ("Hunger Plan")
Herbert Backe ("Nazi starvation policy in Eastern Europe")
notableWork
Nazi Germany ("Final Solution")
implementedPolicy
Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture ("Hunger Plan")
involvedIn
GeneralplanOstPolicies ("Hunger Plan")
relatedTo
SovietPrisonersOfWar
victimOf

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