 German policy in the area was harsh, beginning with the pre-Holocaust mass executions carried out by advancing Einsatzgruppen against the Jewish population.The remainder of the Baltic peoples were deemed by the Nazis to be "a dying race" that needed to be "replaced by a more dynamic people", meaning Germans.The main Nazi plan for the colonization of conquered territories in the east, referred to as Generalplan Ost, called for the wholesale deportation of some two thirds of the native population from the territories of the Baltic states in the event of a German victory.