If Hitler wasn't an Anti-Semite

As it says on the tin. Yes, this extends to him being racist, but won't stop his rage against Communists and finding some other scapegoat.
 

Thrawn

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Third Reich victorious Alternate decisions of WW2 (Greenhill)

One chapters ask what if Hitler hated the British and had nothing against Jews etc.

Conclusion: He wouldnt have gone soft on Britain in 1940/41 and offered them peace like 100 times but instead would have launched an invasion of GB regardles of the cost.

Because all the Jews like Einstein, Oppenheimer etc would have worked for Germany, the Germans would have been in possesion of 3 Nukes by 1945 using them to obliterate Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad thus winnig the war against Russia.

And yes the scenario in the book does assume that there would have been a WW2 even if Hitler would have come along with the Jews.
 
>germany
>nukes

Ain't happening unless the Brits are knocked out very early in the game and the Americans don't get in. By 1943 Allied strategic bombing FUBARS any credible attempt at a nuclear program. Germany barely had the resource base to support nuke research in the BEST of conditions.

(doesn't stop me from spamming them on HOI2 on Germany 36!)
 
In Wartime, sure. But it states that Hitler would go to war later, after having sufficiently prepared (atleast, how I read it)
 
The only thing this changes is that the Nazi regime does not waste resources murding the Jewish population of occupied Europe. So the can fight the war better.
 
Most people in that era would be considered Anti-Semites by today's standards. What if Hitler was just a garden variety Anti-Semite? This would likely avoid any mass exodus, particularly among scientists, from Germany in the 1930s when he comes to power, because everybody considering bugging out would expect that he's just 'more of the same', and in this case, they'd not have miscalculated. Connecting Jews to the 'stab in the back' in WWI is a pretty thin reed honestly---'We could have won but we were stabbed in the back by traitors' would play almost as well as 'traitors and Jews'.
 
Third Reich victorious Alternate decisions of WW2 (Greenhill)

One chapters ask what if Hitler hated the British and had nothing against Jews etc.

Conclusion: He wouldnt have gone soft on Britain in 1940/41 and offered them peace like 100 times but instead would have launched an invasion of GB regardles of the cost.

Because all the Jews like Einstein, Oppenheimer etc would have worked for Germany, the Germans would have been in possesion of 3 Nukes by 1945 using them to obliterate Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad thus winnig the war against Russia.

And yes the scenario in the book does assume that there would have been a WW2 even if Hitler would have come along with the Jews.

Of course he forgets to mention how Germany managed to defeat Poland and France in the first place with all the resources that went into armour in OTL going into that silly Navy.
 
it would not change a thing on Hitler
he would focus his irrational hate then on somebody else, surely communists
they would then die in concentration camps
 
He might have done the exact same things.

The Jews were... convenient.

Being the omnicidal maniac he was he wouldn't have minded sacrificing them to his ambitions.
 
If Hitler wasn't an anti-Semite:

30-year-old Adolf Hitler, working as an intelligence officer in the German army, is ordered to infiltrate a small political party based in Munich known as the German Workers' Party (DAP). He listens in on the speeches of party founder Anton Drexler. He finds Drexler's rhetoric against capitalism, Bolshevism and the "November Criminals" compelling, and is very interested by Drexler's vision of a nationalist Germany... then Drexler starts going on about everything being the Jews' fault. "Huh," thinks Hitler. "So much for that guy's credibility." He reports back to his command, never becomes a party member, and eventually forgets about the DAP entirely.
 
I posted this in the "Good Hitler" thread. Stephanie Isak, Hitlers love for her, Macholm Wheeler-Nicholsons time in Koblenz etc are all real.

POD: The young Stefanie Isak briefly overcomes her shyness, and goes to a party with friends that she turned down in OTL. At this party she meets the dashing young Adolf Hitler, who OTL had previously admired her from afar.

Their courtship was a difficult one, both due to their different religons and Hitlers cicumstances as a struggeling artist with no education or prospects. Nor does the Isaks approve of Hitlers family, with his criminal half-brother. "That Adolf Hitler, he is not good for Jews" her father is reported to have said.

However, young love will find a way, and eventually they were married. The happy couples first child was born seven months after. August Hitler was a somewhat premature baby. Officially.

With a wife and a child, Hitler does not contemplate dodging the draft, and was serving in the Austrian army when WW1 breaks out. He was decorated for bravery, but ended the war bitterly disillusioned, considering the Versailles peace treaty a "betrayal of the German people".

After the war the family moved. Hitler has long wanted to live in "a real German city" and favored Munich, but the connections of his in-laws manage to secure him a good job in Koblenz.
Hitler was not happy there, but did strike up a lifelong friendship with Macholm Wheeler-Nicholson, another decorated soldier with an artistic bent and considerable bitterness towards the army.

Increasing antisemitic sentiments worried Hitler considerably, and increased his bitter frustration with the goverment. In 1921 a group of thugs took exception to the Jewish heritage of his wife and son. Adolph Hitler was beaten and made to watch as they broke the arms his young son. Attempting to report this to the police were met with considerable apathy, as the officer in charge were himself not very fond of Jews.

Over the next year Adolf several times got into fights, normally started by some disparaging remark about his wifes heritage.

At some point during this period, Hitler is said to have started a novel about an excessivly violent hero in the old Norse mold, who "clenses Germany of antisemites by fire!"

In 1923, when Germany lost the Ruhr region, Hitlers anger with what he percieves as the weakness of the German goverment came to a head, and with his family he emigrated to the USA.

With the help of his in-laws, the Hitlers settled into New York. His friend Wheeler-Nicholson was working there as a pulp and sometimes comic writer, and helped Adolf get work as an artist and illustrator again. Adolf found his lack of formal papers and education hampering him far less in the USA than it did in Germany. Although his work did not at this time bring him great prosperity, he was able to provide for his growing family. And through constant practice his artistic skills developed. At times he mused about his old dream of becoming an architect, which suddenly seems less impossible.

Later he would refer to these years as the happiest years of his life.

In 1934 the two friends founded National Allied Publications together. Hitlers artistic eye added visuals that improved sales of the company flagship the magazine "New Fun", and added to the cash flow of the new company. When their young employees Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster introduced their idea for a "Superman" character, Hitler was spending all his time on the companys publications.

The Superman book became Hitlers personal project. He brought his artistic skills, his philosophic musings on the nature of a superman/ubermensch and a master race, as well as a considerable talent for symbolism. Hitler also demonstrated a hierto unsuspected ability to engage crowds emotionally.

The violent super-hero who used his great power in defense of the downtrodden and humiliated weak goverments was a smashing success. His streak of weltsmertz for the lesse race he was set to nuture did not detract from the popularity of the hero.
By the time the company published "Batman", their fortunes were made.

Hitlers brooding "Superman" was later said to be largest single influence on the Franco-Belgian tradition of comic books.

It took less than 5 years from the publication of the first issue of "Superman" untill Hitler and Wheeler-Nicholson were multimillionaires.

When Hitler returned to the economic basket-case that was the Weimar republic, he returned as a self-made millionaire, a famous artist and an icon of popular culture. With his ability to affect the crowds, his political success was almost a foregone conclusion.

Hitler instituded many reforms during his tenure but is most remebered for the large-scale public works that pulled the Republic out of the economic doldrums, and his reforms to education. He is also credited with doing a considerable amount of work to lessen tensions between ethnicites in Europe.

After stepping down due to illness, Hitler spent his declining years working for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

The 1972 film "Love and War" about the courtship of Aldolf and Stephanie won 3 Oscars, despite being panned by historians for showing the courtship as happening during the World War. Historians protested in vain that the two were already married by the time the war broke out. Hollywood, as usual, did not listen.

Hitlers influence and patronage is credited with making the comic book widely accepted as an art form.

August Hitlers son Aldolf Hitler II is a Senator from New York.

It did lead me to later speculate on the economic fate of the Weimar Republic without a Nazi party. Any ideas?
 
It did lead me to later speculate on the economic fate of the Weimar Republic without a Nazi party. Any ideas?

The Wemair Republic would ultimately collapse, Germany would most likely end up under the domination of the junkers, neo-monarchists, and people like Goering. Germany probably still unites with Austria, as the people considered themselves German citizens. Germany most likely ends up as what Britian and France wanted, a strong buffer state against communism and using promises of the return of German lands in the east as a way to keep them on a leash.
 
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