***I wonder how Communism would have worked out.***
The same.
“Controversial problems [between Germany and Russia] did not, in my opinion, exist anywhere along the line from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea and to the Far East. In addition, despite all the divergencies in their views of life, there was one thing common to the ideology of Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union: opposition to the capitalist democracies in the West.”—Julius Schnurre, Nazi trade rep to Russia.
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer. Page 501 in my copy,
I don’t know. Hitler thought the Slavs and Russians were inferior people. I don’t know what the majority of ordinary Germans thought. It is hard for two people to work together long when one thinks the other is a moron.