The Nazi government in Berlin had a plan in place for the administration of occupied Russia (and the other Soviet states) before Operation Barbarossa had even begun.
The plan called for the starvation, relocation, and mass murder of the current inhabitants of the region. They were to be replaced with Germans.
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