Nazi Germany, in accordance with the General Plan East (Generalplan Ost), which it began implementing as part of Operation Barbarossa, wanted to systematically starve millions of residents of Russian cities – including Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) and Moscow. Leningrad, which had a population of around 3.5 million before the war, was almost completely surrounded and blockaded by the Germans and the Finns, and tried to systematically starve t…
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Nazi Germany, in accordance with the General Plan East (Generalplan Ost), which it began implementing as part of Operation Barbarossa, wanted to systematically starve millions of residents of Russian cities – including Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) and Moscow. Leningrad, which had a population of around 3.5 million before the war, was almost completely surrounded and blockaded by the Germans and the Finns, and tried to systematically starve t…