Jews in a late 20th century Third Reich

true but the Nazis really really didn't like gay, they had the highest die toll by % of any group in the camps 60-70%, the Nazis also liked castration and hormone experiments.

They really, really didn't like a lot of people. What I meant was that the actual persecution pattern in civil life was haphazard; periods of relative quiet were followed by sudden crack-downs and then again not much would happen for a time. During the OTL Nazi period, they weren't much of a priority.

But as mentioned, that could change. And then, of course, they'd be in trouble. Though it'd be easier to hide a sexual orientation than a racial record or a nationality, unless the Nazis stay around long enough to get the genetic technology to screen them.
 
i thought Himmler said "All Poles will disappear from the world."

He did? Well, those guys were kind of self-contradictory at times... the version I've seen in most places, however, is that they'd kill something like one half or three quarters of them and keep the rest as servants.
 
He did? Well, those guys were kind of self-contradictory at times... the version I've seen in most places, however, is that they'd kill something like one half or three quarters of them and keep the rest as servants.

In Robert Harris's outstanding novel "Fatherland" which will be well known to many here. The post WW2 world sees Poles working as gardeners, other Slavs building roads and generally been slave labour for the Germans. The point raised by Admiral Canaris with the Himmler quote is used in the novel. It also has French chefs and British Maids (However that’s a different world then here.)

"Despite its ideological and moral decline, Germany enjoys a very high standard of living, with its citizens living off the high-quality produce of their European satellite states and freed from physical labour by thousands of Polish, Czech and Ukrainian slaves. The European nations produce high-quality consumer goods for German citizens while also providing services, such as the SS academy at Oxford University and German holiday resorts in Spain, France, and Greece. Products from across Europe and their colonial empires flood into Germany, providing German citizens with a wide choice of high-quality goods. Hitler's crabbed, banal personal tastes in art and music have become the norm for society, creating a stagnant and boringly repetitive cultural atmosphere."

When he spoke of the German migration East it seemed a total failure. With the German settlers ruling by day and by night Partisans rule the East.
 
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i got this all from wiki,

One of Hitler's ambitions at the start of the war was to exterminate, expel, or enslave most or all Slavs. "All Poles," Heinrich Himmler swore, "will disappear from the world." The German leadership decided that the Polish nations was to be completely destroyed and that in 10 to 20 years time the Polish state under German occupation was to be fully cleared of ethnic Poles and settled by German colonists.[42] Of the Poles, by 1952 only about 3-4 million of them were supposed to be left residing in the former Poland, and then only to serve as slaves for German settlers. They were to be forbidden to marry, the existing ban on any medical help to Poles in Germany would be extended, and eventually Poles (believed by the Nazis to be Untermenschen, that is "sub-people") would cease to exist. This is why on August 22, 1939, about one week before the onset of the war, Hitler "prepared, for the moment only in the East, my "Death's Head" formations with orders to kill without pity or mercy all men, women, and children of Polish descent or language. Only in this way can we obtain the living space we need."[43]
Some three million non-Jewish Polish citizens perished during the course of the war, over two million of whom were ethnic Poles with the remaining million being mainly ethnic minorities of Ukrainians and Belarusians. The vast majority of those killed were civilians, mostly massacred during special-action operations of Nazi Germany.[

Overall, about 6 million of the victims of Nazism were Polish citizens and over the course of the war, Poland lost over 20% of its pre-war population. Over 90% of the death toll came through non-military losses, as most of the civilians were targeted by various deliberate actions by Germans

As part of a wider effort to destroy Polish culture, the Germans closed or destroyed universities, high schools, museums, libraries, and scientific laboratories, and demolished hundreds of monuments to national heroes as a form of cultural genocide. To prevent the birth of a new generation of educated Poles, German officials decreed that the schooling of Polish children should end with elementary education. In a May 1940 memorandum, Heinrich Himmler wrote: "The sole goal of this schooling is to teach them simple arithmetic, nothing above the number 500; writing one's name; and the doctrine that it is divine law to obey the Germans. I do not think that reading is desirable." These efforts went along with general massacres of Polish intelligentsia, such as the Massacre of Lvov professors in the Palmiry forest or at Piaśnica Wielka where around 10,800 intelligentsia were murdered.

World War II expulsions took place within two specific territories: one area annexed to Reich in 1939 and 1941, and another, the General Gouvernment, precursor to further expansion of German administrative settlement area. Eventually, as Adolf Hitler explained in March 1941, the General Gouvernment would be cleared of Poles, the region would be turned into a "purely German area" within 15–20 years and in place of 15 million Poles, 4–5 million Germans would live there, and the area would become "as German as the Rhineland.[6]
 
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