Thread: Russia under Nazis during WW2

Haven't quite worked what the political agenda of this site is but the implied message seems to be that for some the German occupation was good. Anyway, the photos are interesting:

http://englishrussia.com/?p=1736

During World War 2 the Nazi soldiers besides their rifles had also cameras handy and made a lot of photos of the conquered territories. Such pictures were banned in Soviet Russia because they didn’t fit in the official agenda. According to Soviet propaganda Nazis were not much better than wild dangerous animals killing and torturing civilians and burning down every village they enter. Later, after the collapse of USSR some amount of evidence started arriving from abroad to Russia, showing that it was not so bad under the short German rule for the Russian people, some really enjoyed some freedoms they didn’t have under the Soviet rule. Like on the top picture people depicted throwing rocks at the Lenin monument. Also private property was restored and people could compete freely opening some businesses. Still such talks are not welcomed in modern Russia too because practically every Russian family has someone who was killed as a soldier during WW2 and accepting the fact that it was not so bad under the Nazis means to somehow reject the fact that their fathers died for the better future. Still here are some photos from Germans of Russian people and German soldiers during WW2.

Originally Posted by spidge

The Germans could have used disgruntled peoples, however they just slaughtered them eventually............................

The Wehrmacht did make selective use of the peoples they "liberated'/conquered. I can think of Lithuanians, Croates, and Ukranian SS units which were incorperated into the Wehrmacht.

Of corse not all people thus incorperated migt be considered as "disgruntled", such as the Norsk, French, and Dutch.

There were even some small effort made to recruit from downed Allied airmen to fight against the Red Army, but I can not think of any success the Germans had in this effort. On the contrary, I can think of several instances where escapees or liberated POWs joining with the Red Army in the closeing days of the war.