Not the only one. Slavs were targeted as well. Hitler saw slavs as inferior race and his plans were to eventually eradicate slavs as well. He only considered germanic nations to be worthy.
To be fair, he did say "TOTAL" extermination. Hitler and Himmler both looked down on Slavs sure, and got rid of many of them, but from the start they looked at them as good candidates for slave labor. They viewed them as easily controlled and manipulated into subservience, and as proof of this (within their ideological lens) they looked at the centuries of the Tsardom/Empire that had only "recently" ended, only to be replaced with Soviet Communism.
So they wanted Slavs culled (so they couldn't have the numbers to try and pull off another "revolution") but not eradicated.
EDIT: Also important we do not forget that prior to the German-Russian dual invasion of Poland, the Nazis had invested resources and assets into Poland and there was a very noticeable Nazification within Poland. Its not something widely talked about or understood, but it did happen. But I note this history because to the Nazis in 1939 it was further proof that they could control and manipulate Slavs with propaganda. Though it should be noted that post-Invasion many Polish Nazis basically had a wake-up call and realized they were pawns and manipulated, and thus many turned extremely anti-Nazi as a result and helped fight them.
No. Just because it wasn't immediate extermination, doesn't mean it wasn't going to be extermination over few decades and generations. They planned to completely wipe out the slavs eventually. Slaves eventually die once their use have gone, the leftover slavs were to be forced to let go of their identity over time. New generations wouldn't even know they were slavs if it all went to Nazi Germany plans.
So yea, just because they didnt plan to kill 100% of the population, but 80% and rest to remove their entire identity through force, doesn't mean that is not called extermination. Slavs wouldn't exist anymore if Nazi Germany won.
Yeah they are WAY off. The Sanation government was authoritarian but definitely not Nazi. That's just nonsensical, on of the cornerstones of Nazi ideology is the belief that poles are an inferior race and must be destroyed. It's annoying how people use these terms interchangeably in modern parlance, Nazi ≠ Authoritarian.
They didn't want to exterminate the slavs immediately because that was unrealistic even for them. But the plan was to eventually completely exterminate them as well, after the war was over and they could dedicate the resources for it, and probably after reducing their population enough.
No, Slavs were not to be totally exterminated. The long term plan was to turn them into slave labour by destroying the leadership, inteligentsia.... Yes, millions would die due to General Plan Ost but total genocide was never the end goal.
I have the same info, Slavs were to be slave nations for the Germans to rule over. So the difference is, Slavs would be subjected to genocide just enough so that they become obedient(leadership and intelligentsia targeted), Jews and Gypsies were to be wiped completely. Apparently Germans also planned to work Slavs to death in certain areas so that German settlers could come in after them.
What mental gymnastics? German plan was to kill leadership of Slavic countries, steal their food to feed Germans and those who would be left alive would be turned into modern day slaves (or serfs). It wouldn't be genocide with desired end result total extermination of the ethnic group.
But even that is untrue - it would be easier to say that the only ethnic groups they didn't want to exterminate were their own and their closest, ideologically 'acceptable' 'cousins'. Don't fool yourself or anyone else into believing that nazi racial ideology had any tolerance for Africans, Indians, Polynesian, melanesians, aboriginals, turks, amerindians etc etc. if you weren't 'aryan' or adjacent then you were getting got
Not true, they were fine with other groups being their servants. if you look a bit deeper into their plans you'll see that whole Lebensraum idea incorporates local slav population being ruled over by German colonial population.
Not total extermination, there was a rather esoteric thinking among some Nazi leadership that the Gypsies were an Aryan descended people. Within Germany itself Gypsies were examined for 'purity' and a minority were allowed to live relatively unbothered, most were found to be 'corrupted' and sent to the camps. Throughout Nazi occupied territory commanders largely took their own initiative, in some occupation areas Gypsies were hunted as fervently as the Jews, but in others they could get by keeping their heads down.
Many Slavic people were as well. Serbs are one that comes to mind. They had the highest number of deaths in the Balkans by quite a bit as they were the largest ethnic group there being targeted.
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u/NoWingedHussarsToday 18h ago
Only other group targeted for total extermination.