DBWI: What if Hitler had decided killing Jews was more important than winning the war

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(OOC: This thread is NOT, repeat, NOT, intended to spark Holocaust denial. No rational human being can doubt the evil of the Nazis. What I am trying to do is spark taking a look at whether Hitler deciding that winning the war was the most important thing, and that reckoning with the Jews could wait until that point, would have changed anything.)

We all know that Hitler decided before he started what became the Second World War that winning that war would be the most important thing, and that German policy would be to use the Jews and Slavs as best they could in furthering the war effort (hence the German efforts to appear as liberators during Operation Barbarossa, for example), and that only after Germany won the war would there be a final reckoning with the Jews and other "undesirables".

What if, instead of putting victory first, Hitler had decided that the Jews, Slavs, and other "undesirables" had to be eliminated? What effect, if any, would that decision have had on the course of the Second World War? Would Germany have still lasted long enough that she would have had Berlin, Nuremberg, and Dresden destroyed by nuclear weapons? What's your opinion?
 
IC: Sorry I'm not sure what your talking about, Hitler never did kill off any Jews directly...he was more interested in efforts based at winning the war against the Allies and Soviets...

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OOC: What a pointless double blind what if.

If the 'what if' is no persecution of the Jews/Holocaust then we wouldn't be discussing it...

...much like we don't see discussion based around 'what if there was no persecution of the Swiss peoples'.

DBWI doesn't work if its about something that in character didn't happen.

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DBWI: What if the authour of this thread has stopped to consider his 'what if' premise...?
 
OOC: What a pointless double blind what if.

If the 'what if' is no persecution of the Jews/Holocaust then we wouldn't be discussing it...

...much like we don't see discussion based around 'what if there was no persecution of the Swiss peoples'.

DBWI doesn't work if its about something that in character didn't happen.

OOC: What I think he's saying is not that the Nazis didn't exterminate Jews... But that they waited until after the war to start their genocidal rampage. At least, that's the most sense I was able to make out of it. The premise could have been worded better.
 
We all know Hitler's wish. Had he diverted resourses to killing grounds, and camps and railroads instead of vicious slavery he imposed in OTL then the war might have been 2-3 years shorter, 44 or 45 instead of the fall of 1947
 
This was not the case? I would have sworn that Germany started wasting valuable resources on the slaughter from the start...
 
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