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This paper describes how the use of famine was an integral part of Nazi plans and policies regarding Eastern Europe during World War II. The author outlines how the Nazis implemented several "hunger strategies" in the occupied regions of the Soviet Union, which included the starvation of both Soviet POWs and civilians as well as how the Nazis established ghettoization policies to trigger famine conditions in the large Jewish population centers. Additionally, the paper examines other interpretive paradigms in Holocaust studies and looks at how they analyze the scale and dimension of the Holocaust.