Comments by "Mitch Richards" (@mitchrichards1532) on "Goebbels on the German Food Crisis 1942-1943" video.

  1. 8:28  The Hunger Plan (German: der Hungerplan; der Backe-Plan) was a plan developed by Nazi Germany during World War II to seize food from the Soviet Union and give it to German soldiers and civilians; the plan entailed the death by starvation of millions of "racially inferior" Slavs following Operation Barbarossa, the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union (see Generalplan Ost). The premise behind the Hunger Plan was that Germany was not self-sufficient in food supplies, and to sustain the war and keep up the domestic morale it needed to obtain the food from conquered lands at any cost. It was an engineered famine, planned and implemented as an act of policy. This plan was developed during the planning phase for the Wehrmacht (German Armed Forces) invasion and provided for diverting of the Ukrainian food stuffs away from central and northern Russia and redirecting them for the benefit of the invading army and the population in Germany. The plan resulted in the deaths of millions of people.[
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  2. Lend Lease provided a massive amount of US meat products and grain to make up for some of the shortfall.  The Winter of 1941-42, there wasn't much help though.
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  3.  @gregorymalchuk272  Pretty much.... It was planned as a precursor to German colonization though, not a means of political dominance. It was genocidal ethnic cleansing, somewhere between the Holocaust, Holodomor and Soviet ethnic cleansing of East Prussia.
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