Nazi Victory Views of "Slavs"

It's not like Nazi racial hierchies had ever so much in the way of consistency or even mid-term stability. They used to shift their views more or less anytime they deemed fit according to the vagaries of their alliances and the fortunes of the war, provided that, in a nutshell German Aryans were always on top and Jews and Roma on the bottom.
But in case of Nazi victory the answer would have been much on the lines of "Slavs? What Slavs?".
 
Divide and conquer. Weak Slavic peoples would be exterminated, and stronger ones would either be made "Aryan" until the Nazis decide to betray them, or they would try to assimilate them through some fictitious Germanic heritage.
 
Even with "obvious" Slavs like the Poles the Germans had a policy of taking young children who were deemed "aryan" and adopting them in to German families, to be raised as Germans. I expect in eastern Europe you'd see some "Germanized" like that, and the rest reduced to illiterate serfs or killed off directly or through starvation. In places like the Balkans you'd see some groups who had been collaborators (like Croatians/Ustase) allowed to have their own countries, whose economic, racial, and foreign policies would be in line with dictates from Berlin. Most likely marriage between true aryans and such other folk would be illegal in the Reich, and discouraged elsewhere. German men using "lesser" females would be OK if it was just for "fun", but the purity of German Mädchen.... (think white-black sexual relations in the southern USA until recently).
 
Hitler believed the Czechs were ideally suited as subjects of a German Empire, and even believed that after a few generations they would come to identify with their new Nazi masters as they supposedly had with the Habsburgs.

Hitler publicly lauded the the contributions of Slovenes and Slovaks in Operation Barbarossa, too, so exterminating them would be a tad awkward but not beyond the realm of possibility for a crazy totalitarian state.

In short, Sorbs, Bulgarians and Croats are safe since they are supposedly Germans with the wrong language. The Czechs won't be given the Russo-Polish treatment, but will be excessively regulated and forced to put up with continual demographic interference from the Nazis who will be engineering a future in which they will be a minority in their own homeland.

Slovenes and Slovaks will be in an awkward position. Depends on how much this Germany has been uber-wanked, because in any normal situation, even a Nazi victory one, committing genocide against your own puppet states is going to be a very bad public relations move. Slovenes will be in more danger from Italy to be honest.

Montenegrins and Serbs are fucking doomed. Not necessarily because of the Nazis, but because they are caught between the Croats and the Bulgarians and a whole bunch of other Nazi collaborators from the former Yugoslavia, who will be happy to tear Serbia to tiny pieces between them.

What in Lenin's name are SORBS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
 
Curious. I recall Lithuanians being specifically labeled as Balts (and Germanics) and never as Slavs. And they were concidered faithful allies and accomplices, not tools meantto be used and discarded. Then again, Nazis changed their minds about these things all the time.

Hitler had Estonians as being most Nordic, Lithuanians second, with Latvians as being third as extremely brutal people used by the Russian Empire as executioners.
 
What in Lenin's name are SORBS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
A minor Slavic speaking group living in eastern Germany, more specifically in Saxony and Brandenburg near the Oder river. They are the only remainder of what was an entirely Slavic region.
As they are assimilated to a significant degree into German culture, Hitler saw them as Germans who just happened to speak a Slavic language. So while all their cultural institutions were closed during Nazi Germany, they weren't treated like other Slavs where.
 
What in Lenin's name are SORBS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

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