This “general plan” has the same aims as general plan ost. This is an extermination not an ethnic cleansing and calling it that is minimizing what is happening.
What is the practical difference between “ethnic cleansing” and genocide? I always thought they were just different terms for the same thing (specifically that “ethnic cleansing” was the more hitlerian manner of speech).
This “general plan” has the same aims as general plan ost. This is an extermination not an ethnic cleansing and calling it that is minimizing what is happening.
Generalplan Coast
What is the practical difference between “ethnic cleansing” and genocide? I always thought they were just different terms for the same thing (specifically that “ethnic cleansing” was the more hitlerian manner of speech).
Genocide is intended to kill everyone in the target group. Ethnic cleansing includes genocide, but also mass deportation/expulsion.