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The Great Leap Forward is literally the four words I give people when they say GOP was worse than Communism due to the numbers of people it perhaps planned to kill.Generalplan Ost is literally the two words I give people when they say Stalin was worse than Hitler due to the numbers of people he killed.
The perhaps is there because we really cant say what a final GOP would have looked like.There were many different versions from many different ministries and on top of that Nazi policy towards Slavs was contradictory and overall pretty chaotic. The best article on this topic can be found in: Nazis and Slavs: From Racial Theory to Racist Practice by John Connelly in Central European History, Vol. 32, No. 1 (1999), pp. 1-33
The last point which even the German planners addmitted: They had NO idea from where to get all the required settlers. Germany had a population of around 75 million in 1942. Most people over 50 and under 15 are not really suited for colonization so that leaves around 40 million people between the age of 16-49 of which AT BEST 20% can be sent East. Thats 8 million available right "now" and perhaps 20% of the 20 million who are between the age of 0 and 15 = another 4 million in later years. So thats 12 million settlers between 1945-1960 for an area with 200 million people. Perhaps more because one of the architects of the GOP - Wetzel - claimed that the deportation numbers are to low because they do not take into account the population growth of these regions.
So the most likely scenario is this: From 1945-1950 the Germans really try a "hard" version of the GOP and realize that its impractical/impossible. in the 1950-1960 period they try a "soft" version of the GOP - which will still be to much. From the 1960´s onward they split up the various nationalities - every little tribe of people gets its own "state" and grant them some autonomy in exchange for resources and control - pretty much what the USSR did OTL between 1950-1990
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