AH Challenge: Adolf Hitler... Judaism's Best Mate

Expulsion from a country has been a fairly typical historical outcome of anti-semetic feeling. Ejecting all the Jews from German conquered lands would probably have made most of the Nazis of 1939 quite pleased with themselves. Industrial slaughter is more of a historical abberation---ethnic cleansing is really more the rule (even in the Old Testament, ethnic cleansings far outnumber out and out genocides).
 
Syphilis often leads to complications of the mental sort, so NOT contracting syphilis may leave Hitler much more sane than OTL.

This would probably butterfly away the NSDAP as whole. DAP, DVNP etc. remain in existence but as disunited rabble.
 
There could be an opting for the Madagascar plan, just, genuinely, so, the Jews are out of Hitler's Germany, and in their own homeland, it's effectively win-win.

One consequence I can think of, is that Hitler would be portrayed as just another insane dictator, instead of a genocidal maniac who needed to be stopped, as in OTL.
 
I'm reading a book called Hitler's Vienna at the minute - apparently Hitler was very grateful to his mother's Jewish doctor, he sent him letters for a long time after her death, and after the Anscluss actually allowed him to sell his property through the normal channels and leave the country.

It also says that his rabid anti-semitism didn't materialise until after the Great War - before that he was mainly influenced by the slightly less extreme views of Karl Luegar. However, that hardly qualifies him as being 'Judaism's best mate', the only way to stop him being influenced by those views is probably to have him stay in Linz - given the amount of casual anti-Semitism in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (and throughout Europe) at the time, the best you can hope for is that he leads an obscure life in that provincial town, but that precludes him from having any impact on the world.
 

Valdemar II

Banned
I doesn't have to be like that, but perhaps Hitler is an evangelical that thinks Israel needs to exist for Jesus to return, so in a way be becomes a Zionist, supporting their efforts to establish communities and such in Palestine. OTL Hitler did work with Zionists groups, so its not too ASB. Just change his motivations and you could see Einstein and Hitler working together, with the "Jewish sciences" given extra funding and whatnot. This doesn't preclude his strong nationalism either, like the current US evangelicals.

Honestly though, I think it would be interesting if Hitler took a page from the French and believed in the civilizing nature of German Kultur, which meant that anyone (probably whites only knowing the attitudes of the period) could be German, as the history of Prussia had shown (many very important people in German history descended from French, Scots, English, Poles, Czechs, Russians, etc. that had been Germanized, not to mention Jews who only saw themselves as Germans first, Jews second, if religious). This would probably mean an a-religious Hitler who treated Judaism like Christianity OTL, a necessary evil/tool to keep the people happy so long as they put their German-ness first.

The problem was that Hitler was Austrian not Prussian, which gave him a significant different cultural and historical background, he had born and lived his formative years in a empire, where the German culture had failed to assimilate other groups.

But if we want him to have a more positive opinion of Jews, maybe the solution are putting him in a position where he's forced to interact with Jews rather than just see them as the Other. Maybe his father get a job in a non-German part of the Empire for a few years, where if he wish to deal with "German speakers" the local Jewry are the only choice.
 
I like the talk about what a Jew-friendly Hitler would do, but how would he become so. I think one PoD in witch he liked Jews is this : If the German highcommand ordered the conscription of Jews in the early days of WW I or in the months before the start of the war. This would give Hitler lots of respect for his Jewish colleages in ditches especialy if there where some in his platoon.
 

Hendryk

Banned
A strongly Zionist Hitler who thinks that the separation of Jews and Germans is necessary for the survival of both groups isn't impossible.
Several posters in this thread seems to assume that being "Judaism's best mate" necessarily implies being a proponent of Zionism. As though, in order to be a friend to Jews, you had to support sending them off elsewhere.
 
Preety ASB, but...

On her deathbed, Hitler's mother confides to the young Adolf that he is the illegitimate son she had with an Austrian Jew she worked for after the death of her husband Alois.

That information petrifies Hitler, who realizes his idealized views of his German legacy are but hollow dreams. He returns to Vienna and spends two weeks holed up in a sordid rooms he rents in someone's attic, thinking of suicide. For the second (and last) time in his life, Hitler drinks himself into a stupor, using his last pfennige to buy cheap booze on seedy bars until, utterly drunks, he wanders into the city and passes out in the middle of a street.

When he wakes up, he realizes he has passed out in front of one of Vienna's oldest synagogues. Thinking he's a Viennese Jews down on his luck, one passing believer walks him into the temple so he can find God and himself again. The rabbi comes to talk to him - impoverished believers being a common sight in these dark years - and Hitler, half out of defiance, half out of confusion, debates Jewish identity to him.

When he walks out of the synagogue =a few hours later, Hitler has found a new direction in which to channel his energy: realizing how futile and hollow his fantasies about leading Germany were, he resolves to be the first President of the Jewish national homeland. Inflamed by the Rabbi's teaching, and burning with the desire to be the first man in modern times to not only lead a nation, but to create it as well, he returns to his miserable room where he scribbles the first few pages of what will be his political statement: Unser Kampf. Selling all his possessions, and notably all his paintings and postcards, he manages to buy a third-class ticket to British-controlled Palestine.

It is rumored that Lord Winston Churchill, whose Cabinet fell after the British Mandate erupted in riots and terror attacks perpetrated by Hitler's Haganah, once said : "There is not a day when I do not rue that rascal Hitler's decision that Jews, not Aryans, were the Chosen people after all. With his swarthy, gnomish looks there's simply no way he could have made himself more of a nuisance in Berlin than he did in Jerusalem".
 
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