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16: Colonization, Extermination, Ethnic Cleansing

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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The Final Solution in the Second World War

The final solution over the course of this war will become more immediate, more proximate and more directly lethal. Over the course of the war, it will move from this kind of vague notion of deportation to killing them first over pits, and then eventually in gas chambers. The second larger policy is what they call the hunger plan. By the end of 1941, this was actually the most lethal German policy. More people had died this way than in the Holocaust as of the end of 2011.

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