Comments by "Nick Nolte" (@nicknolte8671) on "The Numbers Say it All | The Myth of German Superiority on the WW2 Eastern Front" video.

  1. "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. 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.The plan as a means of mass murder was outlined in several documents, including one that became known as Göring's Green Folder, which quoted a number of "20 to 30 million" expected Russian deaths from "military actions and crises of food supply." "The Barbarossa Decree, formulated by the German army's legal office and issued by Adolf Hitler, declares that punishable acts committed by civilians will not be handled by military courts. Instead, unlawful enemy fighters are to be summarily shot; where the perpetrators of anti-German activity cannot be found, entire villages are to be liquidated in their stead. Criminal acts committed by Germans against civilians will not automatically lead to punishment. The text of Wilhelm Keitel's order reads: "...Russian civilians suspected of offenses against German troops should be shot or ruthlessly punished without a military trial, and that the prosecution of German soldiers for offenses against Russian civilians was not required."
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