Viewpoint: Hunger as a weapon of war: Hitler’s Hunger Plan, Native American resettlement and starvation in Yemen

Carlisle Runge and Linnea Graham

Food Policy, 2020, vol. 92, issue C

Abstract: This article will consider the Nazi Hunger Plan as an instrument of annihilation and tool of war, its retrospective reliance on the American example of resettlement of indigenous peoples, and how these policies prefigured the use of starvation against the people of Yemen by Saudi Arabia, aided and abetted by US and British foreign policy.

Keywords: Starvation; Nazis; Native Americans; Yemen; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2020.101835

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