The Nazis preferred
"German" animals 
over Non-German humans:
"(...) German military victories weren't simply going to mean a human conquest (...) Nazi planners also prepared for a conquest by German nature (...) Landscapes in the East had degraded due to the wrong type of inhabitants (...) by Germanizing the area not just with German people but also with German wildlife, German trees and German forests, that would restore the landscape to its original, German state. That was the Nazi opportunity to recreate the ancient forests of Germania. (...) There was a big German plan to make one, huge forest in North-East Poland, to connect the Bialowieza Forest with Knyszynska Forest and Augustowska Forest - in order to make one huge, German, so called, primeval forest here. And, you know, in German primeval forest there was no place for any Poles, or any Belarusians. (...) Himmler and the SS knew, and understood and were in an agreement with Goering's desire to see this area turned into a wildlife reservation and huge sanctuary for [German] animals. So they had no objection to that (...) and they had no objection either to dispatching one of their units there, early on, to begin the process of ethnic cleansing in that region. (...) Within days of the German invasion, a unit of Himmler's execution squads, commanded by Goering's favourite huntsman, began clearing the forest of its inhabitants. (...) A Polish forest was now to become, a German Jurrasic Park. But first, it had to be ethnically cleansed. In the next three years, they would expell over 20,000 local people. But as evidence from their war diary show, they also committed some of the first massacres of the Holocaust. (...) These Jewish cemeteries, are the only remains of Jewish communities that had lived in the forest. Within a few weeks, they were entirely eradicated. Never to return. The removal of the Jews would lead to this forest being regarded as one of the first territories to become Jew-free, or as the SS called it - Judenfrei. The Jewish population of Białowieza were either executed in the forest, or ultimately sent to extermination camps. Thousands of the non-Jewish inhabitants were also expelled. Forest was going to be completely barren of human beings, complete wilderness. And the only human beings there would be German hunters. And this thing goes back to Julius Caesar's idea of bearchested Germans with spears, hunting aurochs. The Nazi obsession with the mythical origins of their Aryan ancestors, was now being turned into a hellish reality. (...)"
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Originally Posted by Teutone
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