Nazi victory: How many Slavs would undergo Germanization?

IMHO the "Germanization/Aryanization" process would be relatively short lived. Taking very young children who were deemed "Aryan" for adoption means that they grow up "German" no accent, and thinking of themselves as "German". Adults who fit racial criteria, and who had skills that were desired could be "Aryanized", this happened OTL. Over a certain age children will retain memories, accents, and so forth and also their adoptive parents will realize they are not "German" orphans. Once the initial sorting has been done, Untermensch slaves will have no skills making them worthy of Aryan status, and slave children are unlikely to be "adopted". What this all means is that those in the east who will be "elevated" in status either my fiat or by adoption will be selected relatively early on and the lines between Aryan and slave Untermenschen will harden. One possible exception to this would be some sort of ongoing variation of the Lebensborn program, where young Aryan women were impregnated by SS men to increase Aryans (among other functions of the program). Taking not only western "Aryan" women for this program but also Slavic women who met criteria could continue for quite some time.

All of this stuff either happened OTL or was planned. Just when you think you know the depths of depravity...
 
Perhaps, but I don't see that attitude persisting for very long for the descendants of those "lucky" few to be allowed to integrate in this way. There were already a significant number of Germans with Slavic ancestry and last names so it would not be an unusual thing, and that's assuming they don't change or heavily Germanize the last name beyond its spelling. Some were descended from long Germanized West Slavs (and were generally more common in Eastern areas) while others were descended from later immigrating Poles, particularly to the Ruhr region. These people seem to have pretty seamlessly blended in even in Nazi Germany and many were quite prominent. After all, Hitler's personal chauffeur was of Polish descent.
The Ruhrpolen. Including Kashubians, Silesians, and other groups the Germans wanted to integrate. Prussians wanted to as well with the Ruhrpolen, but it didn't work out. Reminds me some weird stuff I once read on Wikipedia saying the Germans thought the Poles would be great to integrate but that they were patriotically Polish. Ahh, and when it comes to chauffeurs I assume it involves a bit of friendship. I assume you had refered to Erich Kempka as the chauffer. There was another, Emil Maurice, with a Jewish great-father. Hitler stood by by his old friend. God bless him. Because of him Emil and his brothers didn't have to be kicked out of the SS. Seriously though, Hitler was merciful for people he personally knew but... Yah, think I got off topic.

Anyways, I think that Hitler decided at one point that Slavic was a linguistic group, and to treat each group independently.
 
"consent, we don't need no stinkin' consent" Asking slaves/Untermenschen for consent?? While being a breeding animal is not something one signs up for, compared to slave labor of the manual type living in decent quarters, getting nutritious food, avoiding the whipping/abuse of a plantation worker this, at least until fertility runs out, may seem like a better deal for these women. Of course the decent quarters, food, conditions are for the health of the babies but of necessity these benefit the "incubator". The Germans, like the Japanese, "recruited" whores for the troops (aka comfort women) - life in a soldiers' brothel is going to be way worse than as a breeder in the Lebensborn program.

Plantation slave/house slave, whore, breeder - all of these are bad choices, and becoming an experimental subject for medical labs even worse. The reality is for a person deemed to be subhuman in the Nazi order there are no good choices, only bad and worse and some of the worse make death preferable.
 
This is hard to know, as there were no specific plans for how this was to work. In the antebellum south slaves represented a major investment, as a large percentage of the capital in the south was tied up in slaves. Gratuitous mistreatment of slaves was considered socially unacceptable, although not illegal. In a Nazi occupied Ost punishment of slaves for infractions, or simply because an example is needed will be brutal, and totally within the realm of "correct" behavior. It will take quite some time before the Slavic/Untermensch population of the east gets to the point where "wastage" of slaves would be a concern. Until then replacing a slave is not difficult or costly. There will be no underground railroad in Ostland, and a slave who attempts to escape won't be whipped but rather killed in a rather unpleasant way, after watching his family tortured to death before he is dispatched, all of this of course in front of the assembled work force.

The key difference will be African slaves in the antebellum south were valuable property, whereas while Untermensch slaves have value, the ultimate end for all of them is extinction at such a time as their labor is no longer needed.
 
The Ruhrpolen. Including Kashubians, Silesians, and other groups the Germans wanted to integrate. Prussians wanted to as well with the Ruhrpolen, but it didn't work out. Reminds me some weird stuff I once read on Wikipedia saying the Germans thought the Poles would be great to integrate but that they were patriotically Polish. Ahh, and when it comes to chauffeurs I assume it involves a bit of friendship. I assume you had refered to Erich Kempka as the chauffer. There was another, Emil Maurice, with a Jewish great-father. Hitler stood by by his old friend. God bless him. Because of him Emil and his brothers didn't have to be kicked out of the SS. Seriously though, Hitler was merciful for people he personally knew but... Yah, think I got off topic.

Anyways, I think that Hitler decided at one point that Slavic was a linguistic group, and to treat each group independently.

There was also a crackdown on Sorbian heritage and institutions during National Socialist rule.
 
There was also a crackdown on Sorbian heritage and institutions during National Socialist rule.
Indeed so. They considered them Slavic-speaking Germans or Wends. Wends basically being the term they used for possibly Slavic groups that came into contact with the Germans centuries before and intermarried a lot, showed loyalty to the Germans and/or took inspiration for their culture from them. I would say it also set a good precedent for them, as the Germans also tried to convince the Halicians and mountain dwelling Poles they were different from the rest so they would be Germanized or at least fractured more greatly. As most Sorbs spoke German around WWII, plenty not even speaking Sorbian, and were surrounded on all sides by over a hundred miles of German territory there would be no reason for the Germans to try genocide against them. Bad press for the public and Southern and Eastern European Germans if you kill people who have been in Germany for a thousand years. But yah, half-Germans who weren't part Jewish or African would probably be given the benefit of the doubt. Especially since it made them eligible to be drafted.
 
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