Hitler treats conquered Eastern European countries better

Then I would have to say that neither you nor Tooze has made a credible case based on this suggestion that an alleged decision to murder 30 million Soviets was based on entirely hypothetical food shortages rather than deliberate state policy of bigotry.

German officers or the German Ministry of Food(!) being able to plan with any degree of confidence the amount of available remaining food and of food production before the fact in territories not yet obtained, whose details could seldom be certain courtesy of Stalin's paranoia and with no idea as to what the condition of the area would be after the acquisition, even presuming the acquisition was successful and to what degree...



Meanwhile, when the Germans actually entered the Ukraine if the intention was to make every possible effort to ensure the total agricultural output was reduced to the absolute minimum possible then they did an exceptional job. If the plan was to get as much food for elsewhere in the German sphere then all the evidence suggests that no one on the spot was ever notified.
 
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