Could This Man Potentially Stopped The Holocaust?

Eduard Bloch may just be a footnote history but he did influence Hitler's life that would benefit Eduard in the long run. When Hitler was young Eduard was an average Jewish doctor. When Hitler's mom got breast cancer he was aware that Hitler's financial situation was harsh. So for that he reduced the fees for Hitler (he even didn't cared if these fees were paid). This shocked Hitler so much that he would hold him in gratitude for the rest of his life.

When Hitler became leader and started persecuting the Jews he allowed Eduard to be protected when every other Jews was persecuted. Hitler gave Eduard what he wanted when he requested it and removed the discriminatory barriers that were placed on every other Jew. He even allowed Eduard to sell his home at market price (which was otherwise impossible) when he wanted to leave for the US. Hitler had a big affection towards this man and even called him the "noble Jew".

This made me wonder. If Hitler was willing to give anything to this man could Eduard persuaded him to stop persecuting the Jews at this own request?
 
probably not.

But maybe if Bloch had talked to him early in the history of the Nazi party, that anti-semitism was a distraction to building up the country. Maybe if Bloch had called it scapegoating by name.
 
Maybe if he had somehow saved Hitler's mother, sent the cancer in remission. Hitler could have been like "holy crap, Jews are awesome." and focused only on the Bolsheviks.
Now imagine a Jew-loving Hitler, keeping all those physicists around...
 
Maybe if he had somehow saved Hitler's mother, sent the cancer in remission. Hitler could have been like "holy crap, Jews are awesome." and focused only on the Bolsheviks.
Now imagine a Jew-loving Hitler, keeping all those physicists around...

Didn't he call nuclear physics "jewish science" or something?

Despite the anti-semitic propaganda some tried to portray in the post WW1 years in Germany, many German Jews served as part of the German war effort in WW1 and I don't see any reason why that wouldn't have been the case in WW2 except for the obvious reasons that happened in our time.
 
That's a very interesting story. He may have well been able to make the policies against Jews less harsh, or distract Hitler from that final goal. Which would only make the world worse in the long run if the Nazis weren't as antisemitic.
 
Eduard Bloch may just be a footnote history but he did influence Hitler's life that would benefit Eduard in the long run. When Hitler was young Eduard was an average Jewish doctor. When Hitler's mom got breast cancer he was aware that Hitler's financial situation was harsh. So for that he reduced the fees for Hitler (he even didn't cared if these fees were paid). This shocked Hitler so much that he would hold him in gratitude for the rest of his life.

When Hitler became leader and started persecuting the Jews he allowed Eduard to be protected when every other Jews was persecuted. Hitler gave Eduard what he wanted when he requested it and removed the discriminatory barriers that were placed on every other Jew. He even allowed Eduard to sell his home at market price (which was otherwise impossible) when he wanted to leave for the US. Hitler had a big affection towards this man and even called him the "noble Jew".

This made me wonder. If Hitler was willing to give anything to this man could Eduard persuaded him to stop persecuting the Jews at this own request?

I doubt it.

It's not like the Holocaust just sort of happened. It was the end result of a large series of events and attitudes. For example, the death camps could not have been implemented in 1938 or something like that. And while the Final Solution was far, far from inevitable (if someone had been willing to take the German Jews, then the Nazis may have tried to concentrate and resettle the Polish Jews - say, in a region of Poland or the Ukraine as a ghetto writ large, or even just in ghettos throughout - instead of killing them all.

But one kind Jew isn't going to change very much.
 
Maybe if he had somehow saved Hitler's mother, sent the cancer in remission. Hitler could have been like "holy crap, Jews are awesome." and focused only on the Bolsheviks.
Now imagine a Jew-loving Hitler, keeping all those physicists around...

This pretty much is AH.com in a nutshell. A major, greatly life-altering event happens to Hitler early on, and from this butterflies will stem. These butterflies do not involve whether Hitler's life will play out entirely differently, whether his life views will be significantly altered (beyond the single facet that one wants to change), whether there will still arise the ideology of Nazism, etc. etc. Instead, Hitler now has nothing but love for the Jews, and can get the atomic bomb, since apparently Nazism will rise in exactly the same way without any changes despite its fundamentally changed ideological nature.
 
There's already been at least one novel:

http://www.amazon.com/1940-Jay-Neug...qid=1446515958&sr=1-5&keywords=Jay+Neugeboren

Neugeboren's (The Stolen Jew) first novel in 20 years presents a fictional account of an obscure historical figure in this intelligent, densely layered novel. Dr. Eduard Bloch, . . .
But it's a thoughtful angle, so perhaps more than one novel. Or, a 20-page eerie quasi-science fiction item.

Maybe Block talks to Hitler two months after he becomes a serious political anti-Semite, and he bails on the program and decides it's all bullshit.

Maybe Hitler gets pushed out of leadership of the Nazis because he's too outspoken on the subject that anti-semiticism is simply pissing away our best efforts.

Maybe you get a Nazi Party even more maniacally efficient.

Or, a party which is just moderately to the right of center.

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I remember watching a talk on C-Span about a biography of the Pope who died in 1939. Someone asked the question, what if this Pope had been ten years younger, might he have effectively moved against the Holocaust when it still mattered? And the Catholics had an alliance with Mussolini because they wanted their support over some law with marriage and divorce. (?) (?) And some head of the European Jesuits seemed a real mo fo and a longtime anti-Semite. I mean, just a first-rate bastard throughout.

But, why am I ragging on the Catholics so much? Yes, the German population was 1/3 Catholic, but it was 2/3's Lutheran. Couldn't the Lutheran Church leadership early on have spoken out easily, matter-of-factly, confidently? As long as they did it early on, that Jewish persons should not be penalized as citizens and in the civil realm for their personal religious beliefs, could have had a real chance of success.

Plenty of blame to go around
 
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