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1941-45, the Nazis waged a war of genocide against the USSR justified by anti-communism and racism, even as millions of Germans had at one point supported communism and anti-racism. Did any German soldiers try to defect to the USSR for ideological reasons? How were they received/treated?

by /u/ChubbyHistorian in /r/AskHistorians

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