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Debunking ZoomerHistorian's 'What Were Hitler's Plans in the East?'
https://youtu.be/hZjsBRXDSds
He Claims: An idea put forward when talking about WW2 is that when the Germans turned east in 1941, Adolf Hitler's grand plan was to exterminate the Slavs and settle Germans. There is little evidence for this.
Rebuttal: All one has to do is read the Wikipedia entry for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalplan_Ost
He claims: that Lebensraum's main point was the German minority living outside Germany such as Sudentland and the Polish Corridor.
Rebuttal: He is completely wrong. Hitler was not just concerned about Germans living in Sudentland and the Polish Corridors; he was concerned about resettling Germans from various parts of the world, including Scandinavia and even the USA.
"He [Hitler] developed practical ideas for settling the conquered territories [in the East], which he delighted in elaborating on to his audience. Priority was to be given to the construction of great transport networks: big canal projects, autobahns, as well as a broad-gauge railway of three metres, which he was particularly interested in. As centres of settlement, ‘German cities’ would be linked together along these arterial roads ‘as in a pearl necklace’. The ‘German agencies and authorities will be housed in splendid buildings, the governors in palaces. . . . Around the cities to a depth of thirty to forty kilometres we shall have a belt of attractive villages, linked together by high quality roads.’ The ‘monotonous appearance of the Russian Steppe’ would be gradually transformed into a cultural landscape on the Central European model. In ten years’ time, four, in twenty years, at least ten, perhaps even twenty, million ‘Germans’ would settle there, not only from the Reich, but also from America, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, and Flanders. The Swiss, however, could only be used as hotel managers.
The main focus of the German settlement programme was to be the southern Ukraine; he wanted to turn the Crimea, whose attractive landscape he praised, into an Eastern Goths’ Gau, with the best ‘human material’ from all the ‘Nordic-type’ nations. In his fantasies he had pictured life in the new eastern territories down to the last detail. Thus he kept talking about installing retired NCOs, discharged after twelve years’ service, as peasant settlers. They would be given fully-equipped farms, but would have to commit to marrying ‘country girls not town girls’."
— Peter Longerich, Hitler A Biography
https://youtu.be/hZjsBRXDSds
He Claims: An idea put forward when talking about WW2 is that when the Germans turned east in 1941, Adolf Hitler's grand plan was to exterminate the Slavs and settle Germans. There is little evidence for this.
Rebuttal: All one has to do is read the Wikipedia entry for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalplan_Ost
He claims: that Lebensraum's main point was the German minority living outside Germany such as Sudentland and the Polish Corridor.
Rebuttal: He is completely wrong. Hitler was not just concerned about Germans living in Sudentland and the Polish Corridors; he was concerned about resettling Germans from various parts of the world, including Scandinavia and even the USA.
"He [Hitler] developed practical ideas for settling the conquered territories [in the East], which he delighted in elaborating on to his audience. Priority was to be given to the construction of great transport networks: big canal projects, autobahns, as well as a broad-gauge railway of three metres, which he was particularly interested in. As centres of settlement, ‘German cities’ would be linked together along these arterial roads ‘as in a pearl necklace’. The ‘German agencies and authorities will be housed in splendid buildings, the governors in palaces. . . . Around the cities to a depth of thirty to forty kilometres we shall have a belt of attractive villages, linked together by high quality roads.’ The ‘monotonous appearance of the Russian Steppe’ would be gradually transformed into a cultural landscape on the Central European model. In ten years’ time, four, in twenty years, at least ten, perhaps even twenty, million ‘Germans’ would settle there, not only from the Reich, but also from America, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, and Flanders. The Swiss, however, could only be used as hotel managers.
The main focus of the German settlement programme was to be the southern Ukraine; he wanted to turn the Crimea, whose attractive landscape he praised, into an Eastern Goths’ Gau, with the best ‘human material’ from all the ‘Nordic-type’ nations. In his fantasies he had pictured life in the new eastern territories down to the last detail. Thus he kept talking about installing retired NCOs, discharged after twelve years’ service, as peasant settlers. They would be given fully-equipped farms, but would have to commit to marrying ‘country girls not town girls’."
— Peter Longerich, Hitler A Biography