CSA Avoids Defeat in the War Between the States = No Holocaust?

I don’t think that such radicalization requires a defeat. If it necessarily did, one might rather have expected that Hitler’s popularity should have skyrocketed soon after 1918. Instead, his rise was triggered by an economic crisis more then a decade after the war, the kind of event which has the potential to affect victors to a similar extent as the vanquished. Before it, the Nazis got something like 1% of the vote.

3% to 5%, basically, which was consistent across all the 1920s elections.

And as Faeelin says, Japan’s victory in WWI did not prevent it from developing a vile regime.

The same for Italy and Romania. Greece also developed a fairly thuggish dictatorship, despite being on the winning side.
 
I know that the USA (and other western countries/Allies such as UK, France) continued all sorts of sanctioned anti-semitic policies after WW2 (let alone before) such as restricted communities, limitations on Jewish students at many colleges & professional schools, overt discrimination in employment etc. Having said that, the limitations for Jews in those countries was less than in Eastern Europe generally & Nazi Germany in particular, thus the flow of Jews out of Eastern Europe in the late 19th/early 20th century & the flow out of Eastern Europe (and of course Germany/Austria) during the 20s and 30s and the right wing/fascist/Nazi regimes introduced more anti-Jewish laws.

The history of pogroms in Western Europe and Russia was that of terrible atrocities and killings which were generally short lived and not in any way systematic. It was "lets kill all the Jews we can get our hands on right now" whether related to a fervor such as a crusade passing through the region, or the predictable Easter pogroms. A systemic extermination, at the expense of military needs and also wasting the labor and work product of the Jews of Germany and Austria (ignoring the captured territories) was simply unheard of. I still feel absent Adolf Hitler and what he made the NSDAP this sort of thing does not happen in this scenario.
 
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