re: September 19, 1941 - Another week, another half million for the Germans

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Hitler was a terrible military strategist. The people there were welcoming the Germans with open arms, all they had to do was not frick it up. The Nazis then went and did exactly that and they had to deal with partisans.

Then Adolf the Idiot sends his panzers elsewhere instead of going straight for Moscow, and we know the rest.

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Nazi ideology prevented what you're saying they should have done. That way of thinking saw the Slavs as essentially subhuman. They genuinely considered Russians and Poles to be essentially at the same level as Jews. Letting them fight alongside Germans was unthinkable to the true believers, and unlike a lot of revisionist historians would want you to believe, a lot of the German high command were true believers.

There was no way they were ever going to do anything other than slaughterer those people. It was the whole purpose of the invasion.