If not retarded occupation policy of Reich, Soviet Union would

>>2959635
Well, not having partisans making your supply lines even more strained than they already are would certainly have helped.

>>2959635
Many of the non-Russians (particularly the Ukrainians) probably could have been persuaded into helping fight the Russians if the Nazis hadn't been all autistic.

>>2959635
>If not retarded occupation policy

The cooperation with occupied population was out of the question and wasn't even considered by German planners.

German agriculture and industry were in no shape to produce enough supplies for 5+ million of men on the Eastern front. And even if they were, there was no supply lines and not enough trains to get that shit delivered. Therefore German army was fed and clothed by:
1) resources mercilessly squeezed out of occupied territories,
2) slave labor abducted from the East sent to the Reich to work in farms and factories.

In order to get both, terror was needed. Unseen-before terror. Otherwise it's difficult to assume that an Ukrainian farmer will willingly give away all his crops and livestock and his sons to be sent away to the Reich to work. Or to give away his daughter to be raped in brothels run by the Wermacht.

>>2959635
There were areas that the Nazis were greeted as liberators, mostly in the "vassal" Soviet republics to the main Russian one. A lighter touch in occupation would have saved them considerable trouble.

That being said, it's unlikely to have been sufficient to overcome the USSR. It's biggest effect would have been in the number of partisan cells that raised up against them, and the number of HiWi troops they could raise. But the former was a relatively small irritant and the latter were crap soldiers that the Nazis barely had the resources to arm anyway, and I very much doubt it could have turned the tide. Especially since the Germans were planning rather heavily on an expropriative occupation policy, especially in food, to keep the economy of the rest of conquered Europe going.

Totally fucking stupid.

They should have set up Poland, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania and all that shit as puppet states.

Happy little Slovakias and Bulgarias.

Instead they made them all slaves and lost all their goodwill.

>>2960139
Fair point. Tiny Latvia churned out about 200k men fighting for the Reich regardless, though.

2 SS divisions
~30 Schuma battalions
3 separate SS regiments
5 border guards' regiments

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>>2959635
literally every single country that was under Soviet communism or influence had SS divisions and wanted to fight against them. Hundreds of thousands of Russians themselves joined the Nazi side and fought against the Red Army because of how shitty it is. The Nazis betrayed those that fought for them and could have used the hatred for communism to get even more recruits but they were autistic as fuck

>>2960067
>mostly in the "vassal" Soviet republics
There was also ROA, led by Andrey Vlasov. If only nazis showed them that they can fight about free Russia
>t's unlikely to have been sufficient to overcome the USSR.
It wasn't only vassal republics. Average Russian hated communism.

>>2959635
Fully 20% of the German army on the Eastern Front consisted of Soviet citizens, half of them ethnic Russians. Idea that nazis turned the occupied people against them is not exactly true and originates from Soviet propoganda.

>>2960329
>Fully 20%
very little
>>2960329
>Idea that nazis turned the occupied people against them is not exactly true and originates from Soviet propoganda.
It obviously seems they turned them more against than for them. For such Russian manpower they kinda did shitty job in PR

>>2959995
They were more than willing to fight until the meme double feature of Goring and Rosenberg told them to fuck off and kill themselves

>>2959995
>Many of the non-Russians

>what is ROA
But of course if not retarded lebensraum autism they would be formed much earlier and be more important in eastern front. Retarded nazis created russian forces officially only in 1944.

>>2960329
>Fully 20% of the German army on the Eastern Front consisted of Soviet citizens
these units were ofificialy formed very late in the war, only in 1944 when Germany's fate was sealed. They should think about this in 1941.