General Nazi Germany/Jewish Questions

Hey Guys,

I don't know if this is the right place to ask these questions but I'll do it anyhow.
Firstly with the Jews who escaped Germany during the time of mass oppression against them [the Jews] what were their specialties within science/weapon making etc. Also how much did they help certain programs or projects (i.e. Manhattan Project.)
Secondly how good were the scientists, weapon makers etc. within Nazi Germany after some of the Jews escaped? Obviously there were the rockets but what else was there?
Thirdly who could've been a viable leader of the Nazi Party that wouldn't have used the Jews as their main source (or even secondary source) of propaganda (though he could still be cruel against the Communists.)
Fourthly if the Nazi party didn't use the Jews as their main or secondary scapegoats who could they use instead (other than the Socialists) and how would this affect the overall success of the Nazis?

Thanks to anyone who could help me, I'll be editing this post with more questions (and bumping it to let anyone know.)

New Question:
- Why were Norway and the Netherlands Reichskommissariat's? Were they to be colonized as part of an eventual 'German Reich'? Or is this simply a fault made by Wikipedia?
 
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Check Wikipedia for a list of expatriate and refugee Jewish scientists. It's a big list with numerous fields covered. Some of the names are notably famous.
There were still lots of good scientists left, but is there ever enough?
Hitler was fairly pivotal in the formation of the Nazi party. He wrote the book. If it wasn't the Jews, "gypsies" and Jehovah's Witness people, perhaps people with red hair or green eyes. You know, you should never turn your back on someone with red hair or green eyes.
Hitler would probably become a forgotten man and there would be no Volkswagens.
 
Even after the Jews left, Germany had a lot of talented scientists working on jets, superguns (V-3), and even a space bomber (even though it had no chance of working). There were a lot of other industries where the Germans were superior to the Allies: steel making (their tank armor was better quality than that of the Allies, at least before the end of the war) and optics are good examples.

- Gypsies, communists, and gay people were thrown into concentration camps too. Hitler could have just used them as scapegoats.
 
Goering whilst having no problem going along with anti-semitism etc and happy to use them as slaves, would probably have created a very different pseudo-nazi state if he had been in Hitler's place in 1933

The problem with change after that is that the footprint is already there in the sand and to kick it over would be to abandon not only Hitler the man, but Hitler the message

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Grey Wolf
 

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New Question:
- Why were Norway and the Netherlands Reichskommissariat's? Were they to be colonized as part of an eventual 'German Reich'? Or is this simply a fault made by Wikipedia?

No, Wikipedia's not wrong. They were going to be incorporated into the Greater German Reich since their residents were all "Aryan."

There was apparently a joke about Germany incorporating Norway into the Greater German Reich; something along the lines of how they shouldn't include Norway because the Norwegians make the Germans look bad by looking so much more "Aryan." Turtledove made some reference to it in In The Presence of Mine Enemies, IIRC.
 
No, Wikipedia's not wrong. They were going to be incorporated into the Greater German Reich since their residents were all "Aryan."

There was apparently a joke about Germany incorporating Norway into the Greater German Reich; something along the lines of how they shouldn't include Norway because the Norwegians make the Germans look bad by looking so much more "Aryan." Turtledove made some reference to it in In The Presence of Mine Enemies, IIRC.

Ah thank you, what about the Danish? What was the plan for them? Incorporation into the Reich? Or just a puppet government?
 
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