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'''In-Game Ideology'''
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</center>]]<blockquote>''"...when we came to the east we found the people of eastern Europe, ready to be our partners..."'' </blockquote>'''Hans-Otto Bräutigam''' (born 14th of May, 1895) is a German diplomat presently serving as the Representative of the Foreign Office in [[Reichskommissariat Ukraine]]. He received this post with the help of his uncle (Influential official in the Reich's Foreign Ministry). Yet despite owing his career to nepotism, Otto Bräutigam is an exceptionally hard worker, often driving himself to exhaustion in the name of his goals.
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'''Hans-Otto Bräutigam''' (born 14th of May, 1895) is a German diplomat presently serving as the Representative of the Foreign Office in [[Reichskommissariat Ukraine]]. He received this post with the help of his uncle (Influential official in the Reich's Foreign Ministry). Yet despite owing his career to nepotism, Otto Bräutigam is an exceptionally hard worker, often driving himself to exhaustion in the name of his goals.
 
While he holds a relatively cushy job in the Reichskommissariat, Bräutigam is plagued by a restless need to prove himself and help the Ukrainian natives, for who he harbors profound sympathy. His radical reformist views resulted in him getting perceived as a pest by Reichskommissar [[Erich Koch]], as well as other senior officials in the colony, [[Georg Leibbrandt]] and [[Otto Ohlendorf]]. However, as they've all been forced to accept, Bräutigam isn't as easy to get rid of.
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=== World War 2 ===
During the war he worked in the [[Ostministreum]]. He spearheaded the idea of integrating the local populations into the Wehrmacht, and voiced his concerns about the brutality and oppression being perpetrated against the Slavs;<blockquote>''"...when we came to the east we found the people of easteastern Europe, ready to be our partners in destroying Bolshevism; we need to re-place our cards. Promise them something that guaranteeguarantees their future... due to our cruel policies the Russian nationalistnationalists are uniting with the Bolsheviks against us. It did not take the population of the east long to recognize that we are not there to destroy Bolshevism, but we are there to replace it."''</blockquote>While his concerns for the local population were ignored, his requests for integrating the locals into the Wehrmacht peaked [[Joseph Goebbels]] and [[Heinrich Himmler's]] interest, and by 1942 the Reich had created and supported multiple collaborator divisions including the [[Ukrainian Insurgent Army]].
 
In 1942, Bräutigam wrote an almost scolding report to his superiors in [[Reichskomissariat Ostland]], in which he wrote;<blockquote>''"We now experience the grotesque spectacle that after the tremendous starvation of prisoners of war, millions of foreign laborers must be recruited to fill the gaps which have appeared in Germany. With the usual unlimited abuse of SlavSlavic people, "recruiting" methods were used which can only be compared with the blackest periods of the slave trade. (They are allowed only the most limited education, and can be given no welfare services.) We are interested in feeding them only insofar as they are still capable (and they are given to understand that in every aspect we regard them as inferior)."''</blockquote>
 
=== Post War & Present ===
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