The International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg delivered a fair verdict to the leaders of the Third Reich. However, the world did not know the whole truth about one of the most terrible crimes of the Nazis. Based on a huge array of documents, including those never published in Russian, Yegor Yakovlev convincingly proves: in the spring of 1941, the leaders of Germany secretly agreed on a plan for the partial destruction of the peoples of the USSR. Already during the winter of 1941–1942, its victims should have been from 20 to 30 million people. Such seemingly different tragedies as the extermination of Soviet prisoners of war, artificial famine in cities, the burning of villages, the siege of Leningrad and partly the Holocaust, in fact, came from the same installation and were links in the same chain.