Brutal Reality of Russia Under Nazi Rule

“Russia cannot be approached with legal or political formulations, since the Russian question is much more dangerous than it seems, and we must use colonial and biological means to destroy the Slavs,” Adolf Hiler told Romanian Foreign Minister Mihai Antonescu in 1941. Under the Nazi-devised Generalplan Ost (“Master Plan East”), of the whole Soviet population in the European part of the Soviet Union occupied by Germany, only 14 million people were to remain to “serve the interests of the new regime”. The rest were earmarked either for extermination or forced deportation to Siberia.