Major studies of nazi plans for eastern europe, the generalplan ost of the ss, do not consider prewar origins. The antiurban management of that lobotomised territory was scientifically drafted by a group of. Jahrhunderts german edition roessler, mechtild, schleiermacher, sabine, tollmien, cordula on. Some answers here dangerously underestimate the true scope of the generalplan ost. Increasingly, historians have been turning their attention to. Mar 11, 2002 the gesamtplan ost of the rsha extended the area of proposed german settlement to the line lake ladoga valdai heights briansk, and added as settlement areas zhytomyr, kamianetspodilsk and parts of vynnytsia. The gesamtplan ost of the rsha extended the area of proposed german settlement to the line lake ladoga valdai heights briansk, and added as settlement areas zhytomyr, kamianetspodilsk and parts of vynnytsia.
Nazi germany saw eastern europe as an opportunity to expand its territory, its living space. As such, the generalplan ost represented the most detailed statement ever produced during the third reich of longterm foreign policy goals that adolf hitler had first articulated in the mid1920s. Freeviewer ost to pdf converter is a standalone utility, which can efficiently work without microsoft outlook and exchange server environment. Eastern europe with germans, and move about other inferior. There seems to be some sort of confusion, what the generalplan ost actually is. The general gourvenement, generalplan ost and the holocaust the general gourvenement had 12. The documented sources for the often used generalplan ost percent figures of populations being planned extermination figures, may seems some vague or nonexistent from available original documented sources. Though the wannsee conference of january 20, 1942 is often remembered as the seminal planning event of the third reichs genocidal strategic goals. Current requirements state that the plan must be submitted for voter approval every ten years. Typically a general plan is comprised of seven sections that address land use, housing, circulation, conservation, open space, safety and noise. If poland had agreed to the terms then there would have been no war. It was designed to replace the polish population with germanic colonists and to create new germanstyle villages, as the first urban and territory management test. This plan, if it ever actually existed as stated, was created for administration purposes after the war against the su had started and huge territorial and population gains made at first. Many of the nuremberg documents deal with the details of generalplan ost, and all kind of associated nazi projects of colonization, mass starvation and deportation in the east.
Aug 08, 2017 the documented sources for the often used generalplan ost percent figures of populations being planned extermination figures, may seems some vague or nonexistent from available original documented sources. Generalplan ost the germanization of the east until year 1980 germany must be populated by 120 millions people of nordic type. Vom generalplan ost zum generalsiedlungsplan dokumente. The plan envisioned a massive outlay of capital to build infrastructure, industry, cities, and agriculture in the eastern territories. Hitler would have been fine with a path through the polish corridor. The holocaust in ukraine took place in reichskommissariat ukraine, general government, crimean general government and some areas under military control to the east of reichskommissariat ukraine all occupied by nazi germany as well as transnistria governorate and northern bukovina both occupied by romania and carpathoukraine occupied by hungary in world war ii. Master plan east was a secret nazi german plan for the colonization of central and eastern europe.
Later on the general gourvenement became a concentration location for jews and therefore 860. The authors plan to completely overhaul this present study in conjunction with the two monographs in our series holocaust handbooks dealing with belzec and treblinka. Poland would become the laboratory for an inhumane colonisation plan, the generalplan ost general. They massacred millions of jews in eastern europe, in addition to millions of soviet prisoners of war. Prices do not include postage and handling if applicable. The plan has been amended 11 times since its initial adoption in 1979, with the last update occurring in 1998. Under generalplan ost, all slavs unfit for germanization were to be expelled from the areas marked out for german settlement.
Nazi germany, generalplan ost, land management, colonisation. Implementing it would have necessitated genocide 20 and ethnic cleansing on a vast scale to be undertaken in the european territories occupied by germany during world war ii. Generalplan ost gpo was a nazi plan to realize hitlers new order of ethnographical relations in the territories occupied in eastern europe during world war ii. The plan itself has never been found, but its main points can be reconstructed from the detailed and highly critical commentary on it by dr erhard wetzel of rosenbergs ostministerium, dated 27 april 1942. Generalplan ost general plan east gestapo geheime staatspolizei secret state police hiwi hilfswilliger, russian volunteersauxiliaries who performed noncombat duties with the german army kampfgruppe battle group usually formed of units seriously reduced in strength kessel pocket. Founded in 2001 by jack harich, thwinks goal is to help solve the complete sustainability problem using the most efficient and effective methods available. No copies of the actual document have survived, and as such the plan can only be reconstructed from memos, abstracts and other. Website header photos courtesy of city of chico employees amber holinsworth and robert woodward 2009 city of chico all rights reserved. Why is the generalplan ost considered different from the. The unforgettable tragedy of the holocaust committed by nazi germany during world war ii resulted in the deaths of more than 12 million people in europe, but hitler and his party had greater ambitions for an even larger genocide called generalplan ost. Implementation would have necessitated genocide and ethnic cleansing on. Generalplan ost is the archive document relating to national socialist expansion policies in the eastern territories.
The generalplan ost gpo is a series of documents that laid out plans for a german ostpolitik, meaning it is various plans on how to colonize and germanize the territories of poland, the soviet union, and in some iterations czechoslovakia resp. Vom generalplan ost zum generalsiedlungsplan munich. The six versions of the generalplan ost some b axis. Introduction to the general plan the general plan ii december 6, 2001 the general plan is a policy document that has been regularly assessed and updated, typically every three to five years. Master plan for the east, abbreviated gpo, was the nazi german governments plan for the genocide and ethnic cleansing on a vast scale, and colonization of central and eastern europe by germans. May 22, 2017 actual primary source archive documents of the generalplan ost of june 1942, deposited by ssoberfuhrer dr konrad meyer, now available in the bundesarchiv. This is known from a document of 71 pages dated 28 may 1942. Master plan for the east, abbreviated gpo, was the german governments plan for the genocide and ethnic cleansing on a vast scale, and colonization of central and eastern europe by germans.
Millions more were sent to germany to do forced labor, and two million poles living in the areas that had been annexed to the reich were treated to a germanization process. This sentence told heinrich himmler in the very beginning of war, to explain to leibstandarte adolf hitler officers what the goal of national socialist racial policy is. Master plan east was a secret nazi german plan for the colonization of eastern europe. Increasingly, historians have been turning their attention. The general plan is a policy document that has been regularly assessed and updated, typically every three to five years. For details see the books advertised in the back of this book. The germans who really were just innocent victims of the nazi leadership anyway who didnt know what they were being ordered to do. Poland would become the laboratory for an inhumane colonisation plan, the generalplan ost general plan for the east, which involved replacement of the nonaryan population with germanic farmers. The gpo was in effect a utopian, ideologically oriented plan for the creation of a german landbased empire in the east. The plan did not envisage the industrial and rapid killing of the undesirable population of the eastern territories, but t.
Generalplan ost ebooks read ebooks online free ebooks. This was supposed to be a general statement about the germanizability eindeutschungsfahigkeit of the slavs, in response to gauleiter albert forsters view that poles might be germanized even if their. Root cause analysis, process driven problem solving, and model based analysis. And even if generalplan ost existed and led to the deaths of at least 10 million slavic civilians, the holodomor was far worse and supported by far more evil russians. Germany did not massively blob into eastern europe like wikipedia suggests, they had very clear borders. General plan the general plan serves as a blueprint or a longrange planning document that sets forth the citys goals, policies, and direction for the next 20 years. Aug 30, 2015 the generalplan ost master plan east, gpo was a secret nazi german plan for the colonization of central and eastern europe. Media in category generalplan ost the following 9 files are in this category, out of 9 total.
This file is licensed under the creative commons attributionshare alike 4. Generalplan ost means masterplan of the east and was the nazi. Since this process will take a long time, and because the present book has. This sentence told heinrich himmler in the very beginning of war, to explain to leibstandarte adolf hitler. The plan has been amended 11 times since its initial adoption in 1979, with the last update occurring in. Did generalplan ost really exist and was there a plan to. The wannsee conference and generalplan ost globe at war. General plan east, plan devised by nazi leaders in 1941 1942 to resettle. Ost to pdf converter software save offline ost file to pdf. The only difference was the territory itself different regions, western polish lands. Ost to pdf converter software save offline ost file to. Generalplan ost established the horrifying scope to the planned annihilation of eastern europes people. General plan 5 logical testing conceptually, there are three main tools. Gedenkstele kurfurstendamm 140 charl generalplan ost.
General plan east, plan devised by nazi leaders in 19411942 to resettle. This science was captured in the socalled generalplan ost or general plan for the east, directed between 1940 and 1942 by konrad meyerhetling and supervised by heinrich himmler. Christopher browning, nazi resettlement policy and the search. Why is the generalplan ost so overshadowed by the holocaust.
Despite the massive amount of evidence pointing to. The generalplan ost abbreviated gpo, was the nazi german governments plan for the. Generalplan ost the germanization of the east stormfront. While generalplan ost was going to reduce the population of untermenschen, with the exception of the jews and roma 100% extermination was not in the cards. Test, improve, and promote the analytical activism approach was developed by. No copies of the actual document have survived, and as such the plan can only be reconstructed from memos, abstracts and other ancillary documents. The term generalplan ost first appears in two documents of the ministry for the occupied eastern territories. As such, the generalplan ost represented the most detailed statement ever produced during the third reich of longterm foreign policy goals that.
Generalplan ost of the rsha, dated toward the end of 1941 or the beginning of 1942. The generalplan ost master plan east, gpo was a secret nazi german plan for the colonization of central and eastern europe. Lets talk about the pc master race march 5, 2016 at 8. There is absolutely no proof of generalplan ost ever existing. It was to be undertaken in territories occupied by germany during world war ii. But that earlier plan was in a way similar because it also envisaged an ethnic cleansing of a territory from polesslavs and then its resettlement by germans.
Het plan werd gemaakt door ostforschung, een universiteiten overkoepelende organisatie. Moreover, it is the best and reliable software to successfully convert ost file to pdf format within a short span of time. Pdf nazi germany saw eastern europe as an opportunity to expand its. As long as the prospect of life for you and your family, even as plantation slaves, exists, most folks wont decide liberty or death. Erhard wetzel on the generalplan ost of 27 april 1942 in madajczyk, ed.
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