DBWI: Germany implements Generalplan ost in the Soviet Union

Generalplan Ost was the German plan for the colonisation of Poland. However originally in 1940 before the invasion of the Soviet Union the original plan for Generalplan Ost involved not only the colonisation of Poland, but a huge amount of the Soviet Union, however during Operation Barbarossa Germany realised mass colonisation was completely unfeasible and instead proclaimed themselves as liberators of the oppressed nations under Bolshevik tyranny, resulting in many collaborators rallying to the German side.

What if the Germans had stuck with the plan to ethnically cleanse the Soviet Union, how would a lack of support among the Baltic, Ukrainian and Belarusian populations change the fate of the Eastern Front?
 
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For one thing you need to have the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler in Paris in 1940 fail miserably; from what I know he wasn't fond of the Slav people and did consider a "war of annihilation" with them when the war started. Getting the Slavic people fitting for the Germans would end up next to impossible if he were in charge of the operation and not Goering.
 
The Germans realized that mass colonization was impossible after the meat grinder that was Belarus and Kiev.

Historically, the image of the German liberator did much to hamper Soviet logistics; So much so that one of the largest forced migrations in human history was undertaken during the war, by the Soviet government, to solve what was becoming a very real threat to the war effort.

I forsee the complete destruction of the German Army in the 43 offensives and red flying over Berlin at the end of that very year having not had to expend the resources that they did resettling 18 million people
 
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You don't need them to implement general plan ost in full. What you need is to avoid the late 1941 decision to restrict police battalion and einsatzgruppen to solely genuinely anti partisan campaigns rather than their ethnic killing in 1941.

Had this decision varied millions of Soviet POWs could have died from starvation and disease in 1941.

Historically this required a massive and party led campaign to reeducate and reindoctrinate forces in the east.

Yours,
Sam R.
 
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