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I know this is a horrible subject to discuss, and we're touching on a controversial subject and what-not... but how early could Nazi Germany's Final Solution come about? Could the Holocaust have moved more swiftly to this conclusion, with more repression early on? Could the swift turn of events cause unrest among the populace if genocide began earlier?

I guess what got me thinking about this was Glen's 'The Accident that Changed History'. If you remove the European refugee scientists from the equation, you might be able to offset the development of a nuclear bomb. However, I doubt it could happen fast enough for that. Most nuclear physicists were heading out of the country as soon as Hitler took power.

Nevertheless, the question stands. Could the Final Solution come about earlier, and what would the effects be?
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