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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?
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