We're asking for a better world with Nazi victory, and typically absence of frothing madness DOES moderate ideology, especially when the former involves genocide. Population transfers, albeit flawed ones being anything NEAR the Holocaust? Not really.
Also, we're talking about somewhat indirect Nazi rule over Eastern Europe with most of it being tasked to a Nazi client state. As long as they send their resources along and keep those troublesome Slavs out of German Lebensbraum I can't see any real reason for Germany to care, Hitler won't be around forever and a more peaceful Germany more influenced by moderate Nazis would find its ways to sideline old guard Hitler.
So yes, it is indeed a changed Nazi Party, but changed in the same way you call the Communist Party of the Soviet Union communist even after changing radically from Lenin to Stalin to Khrushchev (Malenkov technically came after Stalin but he was more of the same).
While I agree on the Holocaust, I think the damage being done is still pretty horrendous.
You'd need to change the basic ideology of the party to change to the point the Slavs are not at least as badly off in this regard, and probably worse.
The Nazi racist ideology being moderated to the level necessary to make it so that eastern Europe is "merely" under a German despot instead of a Russian would take a lot of work. And if the Germans are still depopulating Eastern Europe, and still convinced that Germany can and should dominate...its going to do something more than "request" that Poles move to Belarus.
I think its theoretically possible to have a German victory in WWII that becomes better than OTL. A Nazi victory? I don't have enough imagination to see how the party could change enough to not be worse than OTL for Eastern Europe, even if one finds a way to eliminate the Holocaust.
I suppose a question is, how many people are going to die as a consequence of mass deportation? Can Belarus support all of those deportees even assuming the Nazis go out of their way to ensure the actual transportation runs smoothly?
If you get figures over a certain number of deaths, eliminating the Holocaust still leaves a de facto genocide.
Though, I suppose a timeline where Israel doesn't arise in the Middle East has that in favor of it.
Also, how does a sufficiently moderate Nazi party - given the OTL ideology of the Nazis - meet this requirement: -The Holocaust does not have to happen but the Nazis must behave plausibly and must remain in power with ideological conviction.
My bold-italics.
The ideological convictions of the Nazis, whether or not they experiment on twins, seem incompatible with a moderate authoritarian regime.
I've already observed my doubts on if its plausible behavior, but would a behavior moderate enough to "merely" be moderate (in this sense) authoritarians be one still true to the "ideological conviction" of the Reich? Or is the Nazi ideology inherently too radical/extremist?
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