Generalplan Ost
German colonial genocide planned for Eastern Europe
Generalplan Ost was the Nazi blueprint to starve, deport, and Germanize tens of millions in Poland, Ukraine, and the broader East. It treated Slavic lands as a settler colony for the German race.
Damage
Nazi Hunger Plan and settlement blueprint aimed at mass death and enslavement in the East.
Lives lost
Millions of Soviet civilians and POWs dead under occupation policies (order-of-magnitude)
Record Points
- Planning documents envisioned the removal or death of tens of millions of Slavs to clear Lebensraum.
- Hunger policies in occupied Ukraine and the siege of cities implemented demographic war before full plan rollout.
- Polish intelligentsia and leadership strata were targeted for immediate elimination.
- Expulsions from the Warthegau and other annexed zones rehearsed settler replacement.
- Defeat interrupted completion; the intent and early practice remain a German colonial crime.