Most people do not realize that a central part of the invasion strategy was that White Russia (now Belarus), the Baltic Sea countries, and Ukraine would have welcomed the German Army as liberators from Stalin's Communist dictatorship.
That was a completely plausible plan...
Until - the SS and the Einsatzgruppen started massacring the Jews and local intelligentsia and evicting the communal farmers from their land.
3 posted on 04/09/2022 6:00:15 AM PDT by zeestephen