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.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Hunger Plan 5
Final Solution 1
HungerPlan canonical 1

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Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi policy
crime against humanity
starvation policy
war crime
alsoKnownAs Backe Plan
Hunger Plan
linked to: HungerPlan

Starvation Plan
linked to: HungerPlan
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
linked to: Nazi war crimes
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

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nazi Germany implementedPolicy Final Solution
linked to: HungerPlan
SovietPrisonersOfWar victimOf HungerPlan
HungerPlan alsoKnownAs Hunger Plan
linked to: HungerPlan
HungerPlan alsoKnownAs Starvation Plan
linked to: HungerPlan
GeneralplanOstPolicies relatedTo Hunger Plan
linked to: HungerPlan
Backe Plan alsoKnownAs Hunger Plan
linked to: HungerPlan
Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture involvedIn Hunger Plan
linked to: HungerPlan
Herbert Backe notableWork Hunger Plan
linked to: HungerPlan
Herbert Backe notableWork Nazi starvation policy in Eastern Europe
linked to: HungerPlan