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They were utilized.This is a bit off topic, but still germane I think. I have seen numerous photos of abandoned, damaged and destroyed Soviet equipment, artillery, wagons, soft skinned vehicles and armor, especially from the early phase of Barbarossa. Did the Germans attempt to utilize those vehicles in a systematic way? The gain in trucks alone should have been huge, yet I am unsure of just how, or if, they dealt with them. The impression I have gotten in my reading is that early in the campaign, much Soviet equipment was simply left to rot, whereas if it had been utilized, it could have at least partially equipped German units and decreased their dependency upon horses.
http://www.achtungpanzer.com/captured-foreign-equipment-registry.htm
https://www.tankograd.com/cms/website.php?id=/en/soviet-spezial/Soviet-Trucks-of-WW2.htm
https://books.google.com/books?id=T...v=onepage&q=soviet trucks german army&f=false