Nazis win WW2. How successful would they be fighting insurgencies in the East?

If the Nazis conquered the USSR to the Urals like in Fatherland and AANW and were at peace with the US/UK, how successful would they be in fighting against insurgencies in the Eastern territories as they unleash Generaplan Ost on the Slavic population?

Would there even be much of an effective insurgency given the circumstances?

Or would it be strictly Warren SS vs starving peasants armed with farm tools for the most part?
 
Really it depends on their relationship with the rest of the allies. If it's anything like a Cold War I can imagine allied special forces supplying them with weapons.

By the late 1940's/early 1950's the Nazi's would be using helicopter based tactics to fight the Russians. Attack Helicopters could definitely be developed.

Most cities would be completely depopulated of Russians however, with those people being sent to work on construction projects throughout the Reich.

It all depends on whether the resistance is funded by the allies or any remaining Soviet Union troops. I'd argue that even with brutal tactics by the Nazi's the war would go on for perhaps decades. If anything Hitler might want it to continue as a way to allow troops combat experience.

Eventually unless a conventional army intervenes I can't see the Nazi's giving up.
 
Resistance generally is effective if there is;
1) Significant amounts of aid to the resistance.
2) The occupying army is not able to flood large amounts of troops into the area.
3) Political reasons exist which prevent the insurgency from being countered by various uses of excessive force.
4) The rebels have sanctuary in another nation.
5) A conventional army will appear to help and distracts the occupying nation. The rebels only need to support it.

In the case of an occupied Eastern Europe, most of these aren't in play. Aid to the region can only be so much, since outside of political reasons, it is just so huge that trying to get supplies deep into the interior would presumably be difficult. The Nazis can flood the region with huge amounts of troops. There is nothing to prevent them from deploying vast amounts of forces in. The rebels seem unlikely to get real sanctuary support from another nation, since the USSR would be terribly cowed by her defeat. And conventional armies cannot deploy for some time.

The rebels will be a nuisance, but sadly little more than that. Rebels succeeding and throwing off the authority of an occupying power is neither as often nor as succesful as commonly portrayed; the great "Wars of Resistance" that are generally pointed to, of Algeria, Iraq, Afghanistan (twice), and Vietnam (twice) all had many of the above situations working against the power fighting against the insurgency. And in some of these cases, the loss was not militarily the result of the nation fighting the insurgency. In Vietnam, the US beat the insurgency but withdrew and the loss happened to the conventional forces by the South Vietnamese government, in Algeria the French won the war but found it politically impossible to retain the region.
 

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There would be little to aid the partisan activity. I expect that the Nazis would exterminate large swathes of European Russia. In such a scenario, there would not be much allied help for the Russians, who OTL could hardly feed themselves in the field without allied assistance. The Urals and the areas around them would be different, of course, and it would be basically a war zone. But basically once you hit Moscow, which would undoubtedly be a huge Nazi logistical and strategic hub of power, there would be little issues controlling anything to the west. I think that resistance would die out after a few years at most and the Nazis would not suffer much casualties from it.

So basically, the area near the border would be an actual frozen combat zone, with neither side able to dislodge the other, at least not for many years.
 
While the UPA and Armija Krajowa would bleed the Germans for years, as the UPA did to the Soviets, I imagine by 1960 the Germans would have been able to basically kill everyone in Poland and Ukraine, however assuming someone who is not Hitler is in charge we may see them go back on the insane planned policies of the Third Reich.
 
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