Germany's main political objectives for the Reichskommissariat, as laid out by the Ministry within the framework of National Socialist policies for the east established by Adolf Hitler, included the genocide of the Jewish population, as well as the "Lebensraum" settlement of ethnic Germans along with the expulsion of some of the native population and the Germanization of the rest of the populace. These policies applied not only to the "Reichskommissariat Ostland" but also to other German-occupied Soviet territories. Through the use of the Order Police battalions and "Einsatzgruppen" A and B, with active participation of local auxiliary forces, over a million Jews were killed in the "Reichskommissariat Ostland". The Germanization policies, built on the foundations of the "Generalplan Ost", would later be carried through by a series of special edicts and guiding principles for the general settlement plans for Ostland.