Final Solution to the Polish Question

In 1941 the German leadership decided that in 10 to 20 years the Polish state under German occupation was to be fully cleared of any ethnic Poles and settled by German colonists. It was part of the Generalplan Ost, providing for the destruction or displacement in Siberia 50 million inhabitants of Eastern Europe. What if they decided to speed up the action and use against Poles methods such as the Jews (mass deportations to death camps)?
 
Not possible. The Final Solution as we knew it was already pushing the limits of what the Reich could accomplish that way; adding another group, specifically Poles, to the ones already targeted, would collapse the whole system.
 
In 1941 the German leadership decided that in 10 to 20 years the Polish state under German occupation was to be fully cleared of any ethnic Poles and settled by German colonists. It was part of the Generalplan Ost, providing for the destruction or displacement in Siberia 50 million inhabitants of Eastern Europe. What if they decided to speed up the action and use against Poles methods such as the Jews (mass deportations to death camps)?

They intended to use the Poles as serfs to the future German settlers and turn the General Government as a labor reserve, so gassing them all would be contradictory with these goals.

But efforts to reduce the Polish population were already undertaken: even in 1944, Nazi bigwigs discussed the best way to reduce pregnancies among Polish women, such as playing with the work hours, and congratulated themselves with obtaining a negative growth in Poznan.
 
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