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As many are aware, there was a very large German population on the Volga river, which had its origins under Catharine the Great. Those initial settler colonies continued to prosper and grow, and under the Soviet Union were organized into their own SSR. With the German declaration of war, however, Stalin deported many of them to central Asia; supposing the intervention of alien space bats so that the Germans reach the Volga Germans and are able to actually somehow hold it militarily, how would they be treated by the Fatherland? After all, they are ethnic Germans, but they had lived peaceably under the Soviets for years. For me, it's hard to see what Hitler's response to them might be.

I'm not suggesting that this would actually be militarily feasible for Germany, just interested in what people think the outcome would be.
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