Europe after a violent Nazi collapse

You think that the German population would actively resist Nazi policies in any significant manner?

If it involves them being forced to do any number of unpopular and difficult things that, even if they could be achieved, would drastically worsen the quality of their lives, yes. Again, the example of Romania shows that while the coercive pronatalism of Ceaucescu did produce a tick upwards in births, this declined over time despite increasingly coercive measures. How are the Nazis supposed to do better?

Who knows? Maybe an ultra-coercive demographic policy by the Nazi government might be the thing that will bring the regime down.
 
If it involves them being forced to do any number of unpopular and difficult things that, even if they could be achieved, would drastically worsen the quality of their lives, yes. Again, the example of Romania shows that while the coercive pronatalism of Ceaucescu did produce a tick upwards in births, this declined over time despite increasingly coercive measures. How are the Nazis supposed to do better?

Who knows? Maybe an ultra-coercive demographic policy by the Nazi government might be the thing that will bring the regime down.

Again, Romania is a poor example as it's circumstances are utterly different to Nazi Germany. For one, their standard of living compared to Nazi Germany's in the immediate post-war period was much lower. They were a less ideologically driven people too. Given all the things Nazi Germany successfully forced its people to do, and then rewarded them materially for doing so, I don't see how much more difficult it would be to add birthrates too, in particular among lower classes of people.

I agree though that if the Nazi's do succeed in properly alienating their people that the state would become vulnerable to unravelling. Though I think that economic issues once the slave labour/plunder runs dry is more likely to be the clinching factor.
 
Again, Romania is a poor example as it's circumstances are utterly different to Nazi Germany. For one, their standard of living compared to Nazi Germany's in the immediate post-war period was much lower.

Cite?

They were a less ideologically driven people too.

What does this mean? The Socialist Republic of Romania was all about ideology, as close as any European country save Albania came to North Korea's Juche ideology.

Given all the things Nazi Germany successfully forced its people to do, and then rewarded them materially for doing so, I don't see how much more difficult it would be to add birthrates too, in particular among lower classes of people.

This is a poor argument. "This regime managed to achieve all kinds of things, so it will also be able to achieve this sort of thing, too, even if it is functionally different."
 
Cite?

This was a reference to the German standard of living in 1940, though also based on the world depicted in Calbear's exploration of a victorious Nazi Germany. This was unclear, my bad.

What does this mean? The Socialist Republic of Romania was all about ideology, as close as any European country save Albania came to North Korea's Juche ideology.

The state was, I was referring to the people. All of the Eastern Bloc had issues with their people being less enthusiastic about their ideologies, whereas Nazi Germany never did.

This is a poor argument. "This regime managed to achieve all kinds of things, so it will also be able to achieve this sort of thing, too, even if it is functionally different."

Given that the question is, "can the regime motivate people to do things based on ideology", I don't see the difficulty in making comparisons. In any case, we're not getting anywhere here so I'll step off for now.
 
This was a reference to the German standard of living in 1940, though also based on the world depicted in Calbear's exploration of a victorious Nazi Germany. This was unclear, my bad.

No, it was quite clear. Do you know for a fact that the Romanian standard of living in 1980 was not comparable to the Nazi standard of living in 1940?

The state was, I was referring to the people. All of the Eastern Bloc had issues with their people being less enthusiastic about their ideologies, whereas Nazi Germany never did.

Cite? Communism had deep roots, deeper in some countries than in others. In these last, as in Romania, nationalism was added on.

Given that the question is, "can the regime motivate people to do things based on ideology", I don't see the difficulty in making comparisons.

Wanting to conquer Europe for Germans' benefit is one thing. Requiring Germans to do things that would worsen their lives is another.
 
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