"The German racists assigned the Slavs to the lowest rank of human life, from which the Jews were altogether excluded.
The Germans thus looked upon Slavs as people not fit to be educated, not able to govern themselves, worthy only as slaves whose existence would be justified because they served their German masters.
Hitler's racial policy with regard to the Slavs, to the extent that it was formulated, was "depopulation."
The Slavs were to be prevented from procreating, except to provide the necessary continuing supply of slave laborers."
— Lucy Dawidowicz,
The Holocaust and the Historians
Naked Soviet POWs in Mauthausen concentration camp. Unknown date
Soviet POWs standing before a barracks in Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Austria
And Neither do Poles...
"Our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death-head formations in readiness—for the present only in the East—with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language.
[NB - NOT Jews, or speakers of the Yiddish Language, please note - at least, not yet, in 1939...]
Only thus shall we gain the living space (Lebensraum) which we need.
Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians? ...
Poland will be depopulated and settled with Germans. ...
As for the rest, gentlemen, the fate of Russia will be exactly the same as I am now going through with in the case of Poland"
Adolf Hitler,
Speech Before the German General Staff,
22 August 1939
"Generalplan Ost . . . forecast the diminution of the targeted east European peoples' populations by the following measures:
Poles – 85 percent;
Belarusians – 75 percent;
Ukrainians – 65 percent;
Czechs – 50 percent.
These enormous reductions would result from "extermination through labor" or decimation through malnutrition, disease, and controls on reproduction. . . .
The Russian people, once subjugated in war, would join the four Slavic-speaking nations whose fate Generalplan Ost foreshadowed."
- William W. Hagen
So why do the Russians hate the Poles so much? Wouldn't they have felt compassion?
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