I still think if Hitler had made it easy for the Russians to surrender, they win in a walk....All they had to do was treat Russia as they did France, and most Russians would have welcomed the Germans as liberators from Stalin.
yeah, but there was that thing about the Slavic peoples being uentermensch...once they caught onto that agenda, Germans were no more the liberators.
Hitler was a godless as*hole. You are right on what you are saying. The people in the Ukraine greeted the wehrmacht soldiers als liberators first. This changed quickly of course since the Einsatzgruppen of the SS and the SD left mountains of dead civilians.
Being evil never pays out.