[RedMonqey]

"There were about 4.7 million German military deaths in WWII and about 3.5 million of those were killed by the Russians.”

This is where Hitler's obsession with race bit him in the ass... bigly.

Viewing the Slavic people as less than human but little better than Jews, he set his Einsatzgruppen goon squads to eliminate the "trash" for his "pure race". Which is tragic because as the Wehrmacht marched into these territories they were seen as liberators from the oppressive Stalinist regime

Had the SS enlisted and trained these oppressed anti-Bolsheviks people who already had a raging hatred for all thing Communist and Stalin in particular, these newly assembled divisions would have been more fanatical than the SS itself and would throw themselves into battle with such fever to avenge their fathers and brothers that Stalin, clowering in his bunker, would ponder whether cyanide or the rope would be the best options.

Britain wouldn't have lasted long and even if FDR developed THE BOMB, without England's airstripes to reach Berlin, the "Enola Gay" would be meet with a ring of ant- hostile anti-aircraft platforms, aided with a vastly improved radar detection, and waves of Messerschmitt 109's and Fluckwolf 190s and the new Messerschmitt 262 jet, Hitler would have effective control of the world.

[dfwgator]

But Hitler used lots of Ukrainians are Camp Guards.

I wonder if he promised the Ukrainians their own “puppet” State, like Vichy France, if he could have gotten Ukrainians to fight on their side.