[353FMG]

“....they will be welcomed with open arms and flowers.”

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The Nazis were initially welcomed in the Ukraine in WWII but, stupidly, they showed their ingratitude.

Had the Nazis incorporated the Ukraine in a more honorable way, the two nations would have conquered Russia and the people in Europe would all be speaking German.

[The Antiyuppie]

Oh, they would have incorporated Ukraine, all right...by using it’s occupants as fertilizer.

[Verginius Rufus]

The idea that Slavs were subhuman was a key part of Hitler's ideology. It doesn't get as much attention as his attitude toward the Jews since he didn't try to kill all the Slavs--although the total number of Slavs who died prematurely between 1939 and 1945 because Hitler invaded their countries (soldiers and civilians, directly shot or died in bombing raids or concentration camps or died of starvation) was a lot higher than the 6 million Jews whose deaths he was responsible for.

Hitler wanted to colonize the fertile grain-producing areas of Eastern Europe with Germans. That would be at the expense of Poles and Ukrainians.

That some Ukrainians initially welcomed the Germans was because of how badly they had been treated by Stalin (upwards of 3 million killed by starvation thanks to his policies in the 1930s), and perhaps ignorance of what the Nazi ideology was. It might have made sense for Hitler to treat the captive nations of the USSR well, but it would have gone contrary to his ideology. From a practical perspective, the Holocaust itself was stupid--killing healthy productive people for no reason beyond an obsession in Hitler's own mind.