Goering and the Jews

Futurama

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If Herman Georing had come to power in the reich in 1941 (after Hitler dies n some accident), what would his policy be for the Jews?

I am thinking of doing a timeline where Goering takes power in late '41.
 
I believe Cook posted a good summary elsewhere, but essentially Goering was the architect behind the industrialization of the Holocaust. So essentially no change from OTL.
 

Wolfpaw

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No real change. If war with the USSR is somehow avoided (and don't forget that Göring was a big cheerleader of that), then I presume heightened "Aryanization" and outright expulsion of Jews.

Once war in the East gets going, we basically get the same results as OTL, though I am not quite sure if Göring would continue redirecting matériel and personnel to the Final Solution as the Front collapsed.
 

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If Herman Georing had come to power in the reich in 1941 (after Hitler dies n some accident), what would his policy be for the Jews?

I am thinking of doing a timeline where Goering takes power in late '41.

The other replies are right, Goering comes off as far more moderate than he should simply because he portrayed himself to outsiders of the regime as the moderate that they could talk to; Goering was pretty extreme in his views and lured people in by his outwardly moderate manner. That was a big reason for his success politically in the Third Reich.

Yeah, he was pretty anti-semitic and probably wouldn't have moderated all that much the Holocaust, though he might have saved on some of resources spent on it during the war, because they could be used other ways. Instead he'd probably use slave labor earlier and more, working the camp inmates to death Gulag style rather than focusing on gassing people.
 
While Goering himself was at the start less anti-Semitic then his counterparts in the party, not to say he was nice to Jews just tolerant, by 1941, the man was a full fledged anti-semite.
 

Kongzilla

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1941 is to late for Goring to moderate his views. He is still going to murder them, but mainly because he can't do anything else with them but he probably will use the physically fit ones for Slave labour. I'm not sure his position on Slavic people. He might actually create 10 Russian Liberation Army divisions as well as using Russian people as canon fodder in the army.

I seriously think we should have a sticky "Hitlers death and his various successors". It would make this much easier.
 
1941 is to late for Goring to moderate his views. He is still going to murder them, but mainly because he can't do anything else with them but he probably will use the physically fit ones for Slave labour. I'm not sure his position on Slavic people. He might actually create 10 Russian Liberation Army divisions as well as using Russian people as canon fodder in the army.

I seriously think we should have a sticky "Hitlers death and his various successors". It would make this much easier.

I think he said that the Slavs should be left to starve.
 

Nietzsche

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While Goering himself was at the start less anti-Semitic then his counterparts in the party, not to say he was nice to Jews just tolerant, by 1941, the man was a full fledged anti-semite.
I don't know if it's fair to call him an anti-semite, atleast not one on the level of your general Nazi hierarchy. He was an apathetic narcissist who only cared about increasing his own power. Terrible person, but he would have just as easily penned the blue prints for industrialized genocide against any other group of people. Now, what am I trying to get at here, you ask. Simple, with Fuehrer Goering his power becomes more-or-less absolute, probably more so than Hitler's. Hitler couldn't run a coffee shop, let alone a government bureaucracy.

Hitler's Government is something of a contradiction in terms. It'd be generous to even consider it a Feudal arrangement. With Goering at the helm we'll see centralization and consolidation of power. Sure the Jews remain the scapegoat, and many of them die in staged "rebellions" along with anyone else on Hermann's Hit-list, but he's got no reason to push or help along the system we saw developed in our world.

Terrible life for the tons of "enemies of the Reich", but you likely won't see the death-camps.
 
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