Show Star starvation majon for russia bared iw wiped out 2 cities GERMANY GERMA NY german plans lor for systematic mass starvation ion in russia would have virtually wiped out the cities of nos mos cow and stalingrad Stal ingrad had they been captured american prosecutors prosecutor charged bt the war crimes trial of 21 top nazi leades leaders reading from captured german plans for or the conquest of russia the prosecution named hermann beimann goering sitting uncomfortably in the prisoners box as the dinst instigator ignator of a calculated starvation plan thai aha aou would d have caused the deaths of many tens of millions of f rus this document reveals a pro pio gram of mass murder to stagger the imagination orle one U S prosecutor told the four power tribunal the plan drafted by y Goe rings economic ministry in 1041 called for export to ge germany amany of every ounce of food in the cukr ukraine tine and other areas in the food deficient nt north the army was to seize seiz all 11 food for its own use another defendant alfred rosen berg administrator of the conquered ukraine was quoted as saying in a speech in 1941 that the jab of feed ing the german people falls on the east we see no reason for feeding the russian people of that area also introduced as evidence w was as a Ros Rose ehberg liberg dec decree ree ordering ills his subordinates to disregard hague convention rules tor for the treatment ot of captured peoples because he said the rules are not applicable to the soviet union |