Herbert Backe
![Herbert Backe in 1942](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-J02034%2C_Herbert_Backe.jpg)
Operation Hunger was developed during the planning phase of Operation Barbarossa and provided for diverting and redirecting of Ukrainian food stuffs away from central and northern Russia for the benefit of the invading army and the population in Germany. As a result, millions of local civilians died in the German-occupied territories. He was arrested in 1945 at the end of World War II and was due to be tried for war crimes at Nuremberg in the Ministries Trial but he committed suicide in his prison cell in 1947. Provided by Wikipedia
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