Hyper destructive war in western europe

There had been this Generalplan West by the Nazis aswell.
Yeah but the Germans really didn't want to eradicate the western German people's of thr benalux and France or England.

All plans aside. Nazi Germany wanted to be equals or better than the others in western Europe, not set up wholesale extermination camps and eradicate the population like in the east
 
Yeah, could something like this have come about? Like, was there some ideology in Germany that considered Latin people rather than Slavs/Balts/Roma untermensch? If not, then why?

Maybe if France but not Russia had went communist after ww1 it could happen?

There are difficulties in coming up with such a doctrine. For one, Nazi ideology self-consciously planned to essentially recreate the American West in the Soviet Union, with Slavs and Jews in place of Indians (Hitler claimed to be a fan of Karl May’s work—though apparently he glossed over the moral teaching). There is no part of france that is so appealing from this perspective as the Black Earth region that stretches from southern Poland to the vicinity of Stalingrad.

For another, there is a long-standing German tradition of contempt for Slavic culture, going back to the Medieval drang nach osten. The dislike of France was not remotely analogous—France was hated but not despised.

For a third, the Soviet Union was the more obviously bigger and stronger threat.

All in all, I do not think a right-wing Francophobic ideology is likely at all in Germany.

Now, left-wing atrocities are a different story. A Red Germany allied to the USSR can easily, I think, inflict the worst excesses of Stalinism in France, if France is popularly anticommunist.
 
There are difficulties in coming up with such a doctrine. For one, Nazi ideology self-consciously planned to essentially recreate the American West in the Soviet Union, with Slavs and Jews in place of Indians (Hitler claimed to be a fan of Karl May’s work—though apparently he glossed over the moral teaching). There is no part of france that is so appealing from this perspective as the Black Earth region that stretches from southern Poland to the vicinity of Stalingrad.

For another, there is a long-standing German tradition of contempt for Slavic culture, going back to the Medieval drang nach osten. The dislike of France was not remotely analogous—France was hated but not despised.

For a third, the Soviet Union was the more obviously bigger and stronger threat.

All in all, I do not think a right-wing Francophobic ideology is likely at all in Germany.

Now, left-wing atrocities are a different story. A Red Germany allied to the USSR can easily, I think, inflict the worst excesses of Stalinism in France, if France is popularly anticommunist.
Hmm. So, that's Germany. If Germany went communist, is it possible that France could go fascist? Maybe some form of integralist government.
 
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