City names in the New German East

Susano

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Which is why I put question marks after most of the names, since even in German they still sound Slavic. Do you have any suggestions for those cities? :)

The Nazis bungled up much etymology in its city renaming, but at least some was present. Me, I have absolutely none ;) So I dont think I can make many good suggestions...
 
So no need for nazis to change the name at all. Only use the German or Danish version

"Reval" is the German and Danish name.

Cracow - Krakau
Daugavpils - Dunaburg
Jelgava - Mitau
Liepaja - Libau
Lviv - Lemberg
Molochansk - Halbstadt
Tartu - Dorpat
Ventspils - Windau
Vilnius - Wilna
Zamosc - Himmlerstadt/Pflugstadt
 
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About Moscow, Lenigrad (st Petersburg), Stalingrad
Hitler wanted those city destroyd
and Himmler proposed Moscow, Lenigrad ruins drowned in artificial lakes
the inhabitants left to die of hunger.

Stalingrad so Hitler "had be turned to dust like Kartago"
and Wolgaburg build on east site of Wolga

the SS founded settlements will be name xxx-Burg (german: castle) e.g. Wolfsburg
because those settlements were planed with a SS Order Castle

Belgrade play an important consideration, for the control of Balkans by the Nazi
so the town had to renamed into "Prinz-Eugen-Stadt" after Prince Eugene of Savoy
 
About Moscow, Lenigrad (st Petersburg), Stalingrad
Hitler wanted those city destroyd
and Himmler proposed Moscow, Lenigrad ruins drowned in artificial lakes
the inhabitants left to die of hunger.

Stalingrad so Hitler "had be turned to dust like Kartago"
and Wolgaburg build on east site of Wolga

the SS founded settlements will be name xxx-Burg (german: castle) e.g. Wolfsburg
because those settlements were planed with a SS Order Castle

Belgrade play an important consideration, for the control of Balkans by the Nazi
so the town had to renamed into "Prinz-Eugen-Stadt" after Prince Eugene of Savoy

Interesting information. Thank you :)
 
Did they always want to destroy Leningrad? Or was this a development as the Siege dragged out? It is a very pretty western European style city on a harbour. I would have thought it very easy to Germanise if one didn't worry about ethnic cleansing

Being "western European style" and a harbour doesn't make it less Russian ( and anyway, it's not like other Russian cities don't have their 18th C streets and big 19th C civic buildings); but in any case, the obliteration of the city had been the objective from day one. I guess Hitler figured that since Peter the Great had raised it out of nothing when he established Russia as a great power, it was fitting to reduce it to primordial swamp now that Russia was being made extinct.

On another note, "Tsaritsyn" is not a reference to the tsar. It comes from the local Turkic language for "yellow river", that is, the Volga. You might say its the same name as the modern Volgograd, or indeed Wolgastadt. Turkic peoples were if anything lower than Slavs in the Nazi hierarchy, mind, so I doubt they'd restore Tsaritsyn anyway.
 
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