Worum es hier geht, belegt das Vollzitat, nämlich 1940 (Entscheidung zum Angriff 1940 oder 1941 in Folge des gewonnenen Frankreichfeldzuges als militärische Voraussetzung), Begründung des Angriffs gegenüber der skeptischen Generalität ("Englands Festlanddegen", Koloss auf tönernen Füßen, Sieg in drei Monaten mit raschem Zusammenbruch).
"The general trend of the debate and the planning, however, was moving in the opposite direction.
Barbarossa was to be a campaign of conquest and annihilation, for reasons more to do with Anglo-America than the Soviet Union itself. The planners of the German war economy began to think about how to manage the food question.
Their conclusion was bleak. While the Ukraine produced a surplus of grain, most other regions of the Soviet Union which would fall under German control did not. Victory alone would bring no relief, but rather additional useless mouths to feed. In order to ensure that the Reich could survive the British blockade, they argued, about 30 million inhabitants of European Russia would have to be starved to death. Hitler accepted this assessment in January–February 1941.
According to this conception, the Germans would have to immediately starve the Russians, so that they would not themselves eventually be starved by the British, as they had been in the First World War.
The ‘Hunger Plan’ also fitted into Hitler’s long-term strategic concept, which was the capture of Lebensraum to balance Anglo-America. By clearing the original population off the land, it would make way for German settlers to hold and develop it. This in turn would give the Reich the spatial heft necessary to survive in the world of huge global powers such as the British Empire, and the United States. It would also enable him to provide Germans with the living standard which he had promised but not delivered in the 1930s. If the twentieth-century American dream involved the distribution of plenty, his dystopia required the control of scarcity. Here the history of the United States was not merely in some respects similar, but an inspiration, as was that of the British Empire. The question now was whether German-occupied Russia would be based on the colonial British ‘Raj’ model of client states, or the annihilatory American model. Would the fate of the Slavs resemble (in Hitler’s mind) that of the Indians of the subcontinent or of the ‘Red’ Indians? The answer was not yet clear, but it was becoming clearer."
In dem Zitat wird außerdem eine quellenseitig unhaltbare Verbindung (und vor allem: Kausalkette) zwischen dem ideologisch aus dem Ausbeutungs- und Vernichtungskrieg resultierenden "Hungerplan" für die Sowjetunion und einer Aushungerung des Deutschen Reiches durch die Briten gezogen. Dass dies Blödsinn ist, belegt die Tatsache, dass trotz britischer Blockade keine Aushungerung des Deutschen Reiches 1939/41 erfolgte.
Eine von vielen unhaltbaren Aussagen von Simms.