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This paper analyzes the deliberate use of famine as an integral part of Nazi plans and policies in Eastern Europe during World War II. The author examines three key examples: first, the so called General Plan for the East (generalplan Ost); second, the "hunger strategy" carried out by the Germans in the occupied regions of the Soviet Union following the invasion of July 1941, which included the starvation of Soviet POWs and Soviet civilians; and third, the Nazi ghettoization policies from 1940 to 1942, which created famine conditions in which hundreds of thousands of Jews died.