> they knew that parts of their former empire like the baltics and the caucuses would be lost if the conquering army won, in my proposition i state explicitly that hitler would need to go on record in german as well saying he wouldnt do this after the war he could also lie and then organise a more complex program of gradual settlement of asia where everyone moves east, slavs are generally offered not forced to live in new colonies further in asia, as germans are offered not forced to move into regions in poland, basically moving everyone eastward and spreading out europeans so they get more land by taking that land from non european or low population areas an even better thing would be to force (or make it so convenient they cant refuse like english) one language on everyone in eurasia, then ressertle people eastward to break ethnic communities, do you have cities where one guy is french, on is german, one is polish and one is italian, in the middle of central asia thats the maximum power move but its a thing that would take decade to do, the result is you create a racially and culturally homogenous and united whit eethnostate the size of eurasia so yeah, would be a big win and its compatible with saying you wont touch the borders of the russian empire during the war, you just wait 10 years so people forget you said that and annex both into your empire  > it'd be similar to the french population defecting in mass to the germans during the invasion despite knowing that they'd lose alsace-lorraine and maybe brittany for good measure. german speaking alsatians always sided with france over germany/prussia because they preferred french rule over the very dictatorial and authoritarian prussian rule where they knew they would just be used as cannon fodder one day  if france had treated alsatians poorly and germany was a kind liberating utopia i could see them deffecting but those are the conditions needed for that to happen
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