hitler hates romans/latin europeans instead of jews

what will be the consequence of that?

The Jews are a dominant minority in western society, just like the higher castes in India, the Chinese in south east Asia, the whites in southern Africa or formerly the Tutsi in central Africa. It will always be much easier to stir up hatred against dominant minorities than to make people hate any randomly chosen ethnic group.
 
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Rush Tarquin

Gone Fishin'
That's pretty much it right there. OTL he did hate, or at least seriously disrespect the modern-day Italians. The "noble, obviously Aryan" Romans of the past went and "polluted their Racial purity", producing the "mongrelized" Italians who let the Empire collapse. :rolleyes: This was cited by him as the reason why the Italian military became such a boat anchor.

The same logic applied to the Greeks. Originally, Nazi racial theory placed them pretty high on the racial hierarchy because they were the supposed inheritors of ancient Greek society. What happened when the Greeks resisted German occupation? The Nazis retroactively rearranged their racial hierarchy and complained that the Greeks had become mongrelised and bore no resemblence to ancient Greeks. The proper inheritors of both the 'Aryan' ancient Greeks and Romans were of course the Germans. :rolleyes:

This was justified on the grounds that an Aryan elite existed in both societies but were unable to maintain the quality of their respective societies because the population was interbreeding and swelling with non-Aryans. So the Aryan elite of both societies somehow eventually ended up in modern day Germany. No smiley face can express my reaction to the stupidity of this.
 
What about African-Americans?
Well, I could see him disliking Germans of African descent (although certainly there wouldn't have been enough of them to focus all of his hatred on), but African Americans?
You're joking, right?
 

Rush Tarquin

Gone Fishin'
Some African-Americans in Europe were arrested as enemy aliens and ended up in internment camps for alien nationals. Others ended up in the concentration camps themselves. I think they were persecuted to the fullest extent the Nazis were capable of. Not a very sizeable scapegoat.

I always found this account interesting:

http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0003/black_nazi.html

"The fact that there were so few blacks in Germany at the time made them a low priority for mass extermination."
 
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