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Where is the @TheGreatA? He knows a lot about this topic it seems.
The "sun gun" was actually a thing (although only in theory), don't know about the rest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_gun
A lot of the crazy Nazi plans are taken from Hitler's latter-day rants. But he would often completely contradict himself within the same monologue.
On one hand he would rant and whine about the plights of Native Americans, Indians and other disenfranchised peoples. But next, he'd use the Americans' treatment of natives or the British treatment of Hindus as an example of why Germans should treat Jews/Slavs the same way, to establish an "American/British Empire" of their own.
The bit about Generalplan Ost is mostly bullshit. You can read the entire plan from here:
http://gplanost.x-berg.de/gplanost.html
I do not see the bits about exterminating the entire Slav race. I'm not saying that it wasn't possibly in the plans, but as far as I can see, this plan doesn't really differ much from how the Soviets treated their own. Transfer the populations that rebel to Siberia and other far corners of Russia, create a subservient under-class out of the people that don't.
One of the crazy Nazi plans, of which there is actual proof, is that Germany wanted to give Finland the northern areas of Sweden and Norway (along with the Western parts of Russia), because he felt that the Northern hemisphere of Europe belonged to Finno-Ugric peoples. He wanted Germanic people to populate the Southern areas, and to push Slavs further East, due to his belief that they were Asiatic rather than European in origin.
The latter perspective changed gradually as he realized how strongly connected the Slavs, Germans and Finno-Ugrics had been historically, to the point where there was not much difference between a lot of Slavs and Germans. The stuff about Russians being a Mongol horde was a bunch of WW1 propaganda that he, and his generation had been fed, to make them fight against the Russians. So in the latter stages he actually started recruiting Slavs to fight for the Nazi cause.
Some of the worst Nazi scumbags were actually Russian/Eastern European collaborators:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.S._Sturmbrigade_R.O.N.A
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