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Firstly you are undercutting the atrocities of Stalin after WW2

Not at all. Killings under Soviet rule between 1944-53 were in the order of hundreds of thousands, possibly as many as a million, but they did not approach the several millions who died under Nazi rule.

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Secondly I never heard plans of more exterminations after mazi victory. Thats not what the postwar building period plans were at all.

The first point to note is that in the event of a Nazi victory, the exterminations that began during the war but fell short of their goals because of Germany's defeat would have been successfully completed instead. In Europe, a Nazi victory would have entailed the deaths of possibly another three million Jews.

Secondly, postwar plans drawn up by Wirtschaftstab Ost, the principal German economic planning agency for the East, envisaged an artificial famine: they dictated that no agricultural surplus should be transferred to the deficit areas -- the food-importing areas of the USSR -- outside the black-earth region of the south; instead, the population should be allowed to starve to death. In its own words, WiStab Osts plans anticipated the extinction of industry as well as a large percentage of the human beings in the hitherto deficit areas. That means tens of millions of people.

(Sources: Exploitation, Resettlement, Mass Murder: Political and Economic Planning for German Occupation Policy in the Soviet Union, 1940-1941, Alex J. Kay, 2011; German Rule in Russia 1941-45, Alexander Dallin, 1981.)
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