Hitler and the Nazis considered Slavs to be an inferior race and justified the war of extermination with this ideology.

- In Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote about the necessity of conquering "living space in the East" at the expense of Russia and Slavic countries, considering them incapable of culture without German guidance.
- Hitler referred to Slavs as a "primitive mass," incapable of intellectual development.
- Concept of Untermenschen: Slavs, Jews, and Romani people were considered inferior beings. Propaganda depicted them as a threat to civilization.
- Chapter XI (People and Race) of Mein Kampf: In this chapter, Hitler lays out the foundations of his racial theory, declaring Germanic peoples (Germans, English, Scandinavians) as Aryans — the creators of culture. Slavs occupy a lower position in this hierarchy, being "racially deficient."
- Generalplan Ost: Millions of Slavs were planned to be forcibly deported, exterminated, or Germanized.
- Hunger policy: Food was taken from the occupied territories of the USSR, condemning millions of people to death.
- Treatment of prisoners of war: Soviet POWs were kept in unbearable conditions, with high mortality rates.
- Ideology of Drang nach Osten (Eastward Thrust / Push to the East): Hatred of Slavs was an integral, organic part of this colonial and racial doctrine. Mein Kampf laid the ideological foundation that the Nazi regime later implemented with monstrous brutality during the war against the USSR and the occupation of Eastern Europe.

Hierarchy among Slavs according to Nazi classification:

- Lowest position: Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians.
- Slightly higher: Poles, but still considered Untermenschen.
- Relatively better position: Western and Southern Slavs (Croats, Slovenes, etc.), whom the Nazis attempted to use as allies in difficult regions.


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