Hans-Otto Bräutigam: Difference between revisions

During the war he worked in the [[Ostministreum]]. He spearheaded the idea of integrating the local populations into the Wehrmacht, and voiced his concerns withabout the brutality and oppression being perpetrated against the Slavs;<blockquote>''"...when we came to the east we found the people of east Europe, ready to be our partners in destroying Bolshevism we need to re-place our cards. Promise them something that guarantee their future... due to our cruel policies the Russian nationalist 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]].