don't get to count occupied europe as nazi germany's "population",
Why not? There were at least half a million non Germans in the Waffen SS. Certainly Germany would were more careful about who they recruited from occupied territories but they still did recruit from them and have a reasonable amount of support.
Yeah, occupied Europe might not be prime recruitment grounds, but that doesn't matter when you're going to force the population to produce for your war effort whether they're ideologically comitted or not.
i accidentally cancelled and deleted a huge ass writeup on why i think @Dolores@hexbear.net is correct and i cba retyping it so instead just think a moment on the fact that this 130 million worth of occupied population somehow only contributed 500.000 soldiers to germany's war effort, and consequently what that says about the effective value of those occupied populations.
Why not? There were at least half a million non Germans in the Waffen SS. Certainly Germany would were more careful about who they recruited from occupied territories but they still did recruit from them and have a reasonable amount of support.
And in addition to recruiting the nazis had access to the labour and resources of the occupied countries to feed their war effort
Yeah, occupied Europe might not be prime recruitment grounds, but that doesn't matter when you're going to force the population to produce for your war effort whether they're ideologically comitted or not.
i accidentally cancelled and deleted a huge ass writeup on why i think @Dolores@hexbear.net is correct and i cba retyping it so instead just think a moment on the fact that this 130 million worth of occupied population somehow only contributed 500.000 soldiers to germany's war effort, and consequently what that says about the effective value of those occupied populations.
they required military occupation and mass slavery to exploit these territories, most of which had not insignificant military insurgencies.
equivocating Soviet territorial limits with Nazi occupied europe is not a good look