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The ''Generalplan Ost'' (Master Plan East, GPO) was a secret Nazi German plan for the colonization of Central and Eastern Europe.〔( "Der Generalplan Ost." ) Eine Ausstellung der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, 2006.〕 Implementation would have necessitated genocide〔Dietrich Eichholtz, ( »Generalplan Ost« zur Versklavung osteuropäischer Völker. ) PDF file, direct download.〕 and ethnic cleansing on a vast scale to be undertaken in territories occupied by Germany during World War II.〔 The plan entailed the enslavement, expulsion, and/or extermination of most Slavic peoples in Europe, who the Nazis viewed as Untermensch and non-Aryan.〔〔Hitler's Home Front: Wurttemberg Under the Nazis Jill Stephenson page 113 " Other non-'Aryans' included Slavs, Blacks and Roma and Sinti (Romanies)" 〕 The programme operational guidelines, prepared in the years 1939–1942, were based on the policy of ''Lebensraum'' designed by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement, as well as being a fulfillment of the ''Drang nach Osten'' ((英語:Drive towards the East)) ideology of German expansion to the east. As such, it was intended to be a part of the New Order in Europe.〔 ==Development and reconstruction of the plan== The body responsible for the drafting of this plan was the Reich Main Security Office (''Reichssicherheitshauptamt'' - RSHA), the security organization of the SS responsible for fighting all enemies of Nazism. It was a strictly confidential document, and its contents were known only to those at the topmost level of the Nazi hierarchy. According to the testimony of SS-''Standartenführer'' Dr. Hans Ehlich (one of the witnesses in Case VIII before the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials), the final version of the plan was drafted in 1940. As a high official in the RSHA, Ehlich was the man responsible for the drafting of Generalplan Ost along with Dr. Konrad Meyer, Chief of the Planning Office of Himmler's Reichskommissariat for the Strengthening of German Nationhood. It had been preceded by the ''Ostforschung'', a number of studies and research projects carried out over several years by various academic centres to provide the necessary facts and figures. The preliminary versions were discussed by the SS head Heinrich Himmler and his most trusted colleagues even before the outbreak of war. This was mentioned by SS-''Obergruppenführer'' Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski during his evidence as a prosecution witness in the trial of officials of the SS-Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt (RuSHA) (SS Office of Race and Settlement). Nearly all the wartime documentation on Generalplan Ost was deliberately destroyed shortly before Germany's defeat in May 1945.〔〔Joseph Poprzeczny, ''Odilo Globocnik, Hitler's Man in the East'', McFarland, 2004, ISBN 0-7864-1625-4, (Google Print, p.186 )〕 Thus, no copies of the plan have ever been found after the war among the documents in German archives. Apart from Ehlich's testimony, there are several documents which refer to this plan or are supplements to it. Although no copies of the actual document have survived, most of the plan's essential elements have been reconstructed from related memos, abstracts and other ancillary documents.〔 One principal document which made it possible to recreate with a great deal of accuracy the contents of Generalplan Ost is a memo of April 27, 1942 entitled ''Stellungnahme und Gedanken zum Generalplan Ost des Reichsführers SS'' ("Opinion and Ideas Regarding the General Plan for the East of the ''Reichsführer''-SS") and written by Dr. Erhard Wetzel, the director of the Central Advisory Office on Questions of Racial Policy of the Nazi Party (''Leiter der Hauptstelle Beratungsstelle des Rassenpolitischen Amtes der NSDAP''). This memorandum is an elaboration of Generalplan Ost.〔 Adolf Hitler, in his attempt to reassure skeptics, used the world's indifference towards the previous Armenian Genocide as an argument that possible negative consequences would be avoided in this case too. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Generalplan Ost」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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