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In the first few months of Operation Barbarossa, the German Heer were able to inflict devastating encirclements upon Red Army.
I believe the Kiev pocket alone resulted in approx. 600,000 red army soldiers captured.
That being said, the Nazi's, who saw them as sub-human Slavs, ended up starving the majority of them during the implementation of the Hunger Plan.
But what if German officials decided instead to arm them as a White Russian army reborn?
Note, I know they actually did this IOTL in 1943-1944 but by then the war was already lost.
Say they did this after the first bunch of encirclements in 1941 and continued to do so up to Operation Typhoon (Battle of Moscow).
What would be the short-term/long-term effects? Was mass re-armament of soviet pows even possible?