the nazis loved trees so much the wehrmacht could not effectivelt train in forest fighting. they had to OJT it in the proppet marshes in russia.
What is your source on that? I would be very interested in that. I do know that Nazi public works program which had been salivating at draining the Pripit Marshes for over a decade in the 1930’s to help turn it into arable farming land(which lets you know how long the Nazis were planning their eastward expansion), was denied by the Nazi heirarchy in 1941. About this particular time, Hitler was more concerned that the Ukraine would turn into an American Dust Bowl if this were to be done.