That may as well have been extermination, though. Physical since the numerical majority of people were considered "unsalvageable" and slated to die (either by deliberate famine, mass murder or overwork through slave labor) and cultural as "assimilating" the survivors accomplishes the destruction of the Slavic/Baltic nations. Which, aside from self-hating Krautophiles, is a contradiction for Neonazis who also happen to see themselves as Russian or Ukrainian or Lithuanian patriots.
What! No. Slavs were destined for slavery and to work the farms of the farmer-soldiers the Nazis planned to plant all over the former USSR. They would be serfs and their education would consist of knowing that obeying Germans was good in life and being able to count to 500. The minor Axis allies like Romania and Finland would be allowed to continue to exist as second-class members of the empire, kind of like the relationship between UK and US.
"Yeah no, the Nazis only planned to kill, deport or forcefully assimilate every second person on the street (and enslave the remaining ones), it's no wonder they're not seen as that evil"
Eastern European Fascists conveniently forget that, in order to glorify the fools that did the collaborationism. Poland is basically the only country that doesn't, because it didn't really have collaborationists... except for the occasional local antisemites ratting Jews out to the Nazis. The actual amount of "Let's try to get along with the Germans" was very low.
When the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, the SS Einsatzgruppen immediately started to execute Polish intellectuals, clergy, and politicians by the thousands. The idea behind that was to deprive the Polish people from any future political leaders or intelligentsia so that they could serve as slaves to the German master race. In the Soviet Union, not only did the Nazis plan to let millions of people starve
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That may as well have been extermination, though. Physical since the numerical majority of people were considered "unsalvageable" and slated to die (either by deliberate famine, mass murder or overwork through slave labor) and cultural as "assimilating" the survivors accomplishes the destruction of the Slavic/Baltic nations. Which, aside from self-hating Krautophiles, is a contradiction for Neonazis who also happen to see themselves as Russian or Ukrainian or Lithuanian patriots.
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What! No. Slavs were destined for slavery and to work the farms of the farmer-soldiers the Nazis planned to plant all over the former USSR. They would be serfs and their education would consist of knowing that obeying Germans was good in life and being able to count to 500. The minor Axis allies like Romania and Finland would be allowed to continue to exist as second-class members of the empire, kind of like the relationship between UK and US.
"Yeah no, the Nazis only planned to kill, deport or forcefully assimilate every second person on the street (and enslave the remaining ones), it's no wonder they're not seen as that evil"
Eastern European Fascists conveniently forget that, in order to glorify the fools that did the collaborationism. Poland is basically the only country that doesn't, because it didn't really have collaborationists... except for the occasional local antisemites ratting Jews out to the Nazis. The actual amount of "Let's try to get along with the Germans" was very low.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8m3ja4/why_did_the_nazis_consider_slavs_to_be_subhuman/