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In an AANW scenario where the Reich has dominated the continent up to the Urals but is later defeated by the US/UK many years later, how would the Jewish Holocaust be remembered in comparison to the far larger genocide of the Slavs?
There were only around 9.5 million Jews in Reich occupied territory and once they were all dead within a few years of any Nazi victory (@CalBear had it completed by 1947) the Nazis would only have the Slavs to worry about. Generalplan Ost was far larger in scope, scale and horror than the Jewish Holocaust since there were over a hundred million Slavs designated for death through slave labor/starvation or enslavement as chattel serfs on German plantations in the East. Not only that but their cities, towns, and any trace that they existed would be destroyed and razed as well (by their own populations in a sick irony).
85% of Poles, 75% of Russians, 65% of Ukrainians, 50% of Czechs, Estonians, and Latvians, 85% of Lithuanians and 75% of Belarusians were to be killed and the survivors enslaved. If completed this would mean 80% of all Slavs would be dead. This would result in a death toll of around 115 MILLION people once the individual populations are added together. Eastern Europe would become Hell on Earth/the world's largest tomb. So even if they are HALF successful (depending on when the Allies invade) this would still mean 57.5 million deaths or 6x the amount of murdered Jews in Europe.
Once the Reich has been defeated/occupied and all the evidence of their crimes has been discovered and documented and trials are held, how would the genocide of the Jews compare to that of the Slavs in terms of museums, books, documentaries, and so on?
Would the Jewish Holocaust fall behind the Slavic genocide in public attention and knowledge, becoming a mere footnote in the Reich's body count? Or would they receive equal amounts of study by scholars and historians?
There were only around 9.5 million Jews in Reich occupied territory and once they were all dead within a few years of any Nazi victory (@CalBear had it completed by 1947) the Nazis would only have the Slavs to worry about. Generalplan Ost was far larger in scope, scale and horror than the Jewish Holocaust since there were over a hundred million Slavs designated for death through slave labor/starvation or enslavement as chattel serfs on German plantations in the East. Not only that but their cities, towns, and any trace that they existed would be destroyed and razed as well (by their own populations in a sick irony).
85% of Poles, 75% of Russians, 65% of Ukrainians, 50% of Czechs, Estonians, and Latvians, 85% of Lithuanians and 75% of Belarusians were to be killed and the survivors enslaved. If completed this would mean 80% of all Slavs would be dead. This would result in a death toll of around 115 MILLION people once the individual populations are added together. Eastern Europe would become Hell on Earth/the world's largest tomb. So even if they are HALF successful (depending on when the Allies invade) this would still mean 57.5 million deaths or 6x the amount of murdered Jews in Europe.
Once the Reich has been defeated/occupied and all the evidence of their crimes has been discovered and documented and trials are held, how would the genocide of the Jews compare to that of the Slavs in terms of museums, books, documentaries, and so on?
Would the Jewish Holocaust fall behind the Slavic genocide in public attention and knowledge, becoming a mere footnote in the Reich's body count? Or would they receive equal amounts of study by scholars and historians?
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