Cities would be razed and the land allowed to return to forest or resettled by German colonists.[322] Together, the Hunger Plan and Generalplan Ost would have led to the starvation of 80 million people in the Soviet Union.[323] These partially fulfilled plans resulted in the democidal deaths of an estimated 19.3 million civilians and prisoners of war (POWs) throughout the USSR and elsewhere in Europe.[324] During the course of the war, the Soviet Union lost a total of 27 million people; less than nine million of these were combat deaths.[325] One in four of the Soviet population were killed or wounded.[326]