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The Hunger Plan, also known as the Hungerplan or Backe-Plan, was a Nazi German policy to seize food from the Soviet Union and redirect it to German soldiers and civilians, deliberately causing mass starvation among Soviet citizens. Its architect was Herbert Backe, a senior agricultural official who developed it in coordination with Heinrich Himmler and other Nazi officials. The plan was formalized at a Staatssekretäre meeting on the 2nd of May 1941.
The historian Timothy Snyder estimates that 4.2 million Soviet citizens, largely Russians, Belarusians, and Ukrainians, were starved by German occupiers between 1941 and 1944. The plan originally projected deaths of 31 to 45 million inhabitants through forced starvation, though it was only partially implemented. About 80,000 residents of Kharkov died of starvation during the German occupation, and approximately one million people died during the Siege of Leningrad.
German leadership believed the Allied naval blockade during the First World War had caused Germany's defeat in that conflict, making food security a strategic obsession. By 1941, Germany's reserve grain stocks were exhausted and it relied on food imports. The plan combined this wartime food crisis with the Nazi regime's racism against Jews and Soviet civilians, treating mass starvation of Soviet populations as both a practical supply solution and an ideological goal.
Of 5.7 million Soviet prisoners of war captured between June 1941 and February 1945, 3.3 million died in German captivity, most directly or indirectly from starvation. Of those 3.3 million, 2 million had already died by the beginning of February 1942. This death rate resulted from a deliberate German policy of starvation directed specifically at Soviet POWs, in stark contrast to the extremely low death rates among French, Belgian, and Dutch prisoners held by Germany.
By mid-1941 in occupied Poland, the German minority received 2,613 kilocalories per day, ethnic Poles received 699 kilocalories, and Jews in the ghetto received 184 kilocalories, which represented only 7.5 percent of daily human needs. Polish rations covered only 26 percent of basic needs. Only the rations allocated to Germans fulfilled full daily caloric requirements.
Yes. More than 300,000 Greeks died during the Great Famine in German-occupied Greece. In occupied Poland, Raul Hilberg estimated 500,000 to 600,000 Jews died in ghettos and labor camps partly from starvation, and Hans Frank projected three million Poles would face starvation in early 1943. As many as 22,000 people died during the Dutch famine of 1944-1945 when Germany placed an embargo on food transports into the Netherlands.