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They were not partisans but rather regular Soviet soldiers that had been separated from their units and cut off by the rapid German advance. The two are completely different things.

MAN Double-Acting Diesel Marine Engines | Old Machine Press this article highlights the potential of German diesel engines had funding for further development not been diverted to steam turbines in 1933 Also, in WW1, MAN had built a marine diesel that produced just over 20000 hp. Had they...

Stupid Kriegsmarine decision to use high pressure steam boilers despite the proven success of full diesel like the Deutschland class.

That wasn't OTL at all. The Germans did start recruiting Cossacks until 1943, when the war had decisively turned against them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cossacks#Anticommunist_Cossacks_in_exile_and_World_War_II,_1920%E2%80%931945 "In the initial phase of Germany's invasion of the Soviet...

The Holodomor was actually a perfect opportunity for the Nazis to ingrate themselves with the Ukrainians. Pick out Ukrainian PoWs from the Red Army and send them home, back to Ukraine with the message that the Germans are here to help. As for other PoWs, use the reliable ones as farm labor in...

If the Nazis and White Russians exiles made common cause, then these massacres would not have happened. Communist party members, commissars and anyone who supported bolshevism would still be shot on sight but this terror wouldn't extend to the regular people. Erich Koch was hated by everyone...

The main thing that Germany didn't have enough was fertilizer. And they have a very easy way to fix this that they didn't use during WW1. Haber Process of making Ammonia (in WW1 the ammonia was used to make explosives for ammo). Tons and tons of fertilizer from just hydrogen and nitrogen...

The failure of OP Barbarossa is partially due to the genocidal policies of the Nazis against the locals. However, anti-Slavism was not always part of Nazi ideology. In fact, before the Munich Putsch, White Russian emigres were some of the Nazi Party's donors and allies. Max von Schuebner...

It would have given the Germans a chance to solidify their gains, get railways converted to standard gauge and for winter gear to be brought up to the front. Soviets are now badly equipped (most of their supply depots were close to the border and thus overrun) and their attacks in December...

This is actually the best choice. All Soviet counterattacks after Moscow in late 1941 and early 1942 all ended in disaster with huge losses on the Soviet side. And this was in winter. While the Germans were rather unprepared. A defense line from Narva to Smolensk and Kiev designed to grind...