Hi!
I read somewhere that Hitler originally hadn't been sold on killing all of the Jews, Roma, etc. His first plan was to get them out of Germany, and he supposedly asked other countries to take them in. It was only after the other countries turned down the refugees (remember "Exodus" and so forth) that the stage was set for the Holocaust.
So consider the following option: for each ethnic group, a country offers to take in the refugees. I was thinking of having the Jews go to the United States or to Palestine, for instance.
Yes, I know that there were plans to send them to Madagascar or Uganda or wherever it was. However, we know that fell through. Besides, one would have expected the refugees to leave for a destination with a closer culture to Europe (Britain or the US). They probably wouldn't have wanted to go to Africa.
I could see the Dutch taking them in. However, things could get dicey if the Second World War breaks out as in OTL and Germany winds up taking over the Netherlands.
The net result is that central Europe finds itself with few Jews as in OTL after the war...but there's a significantly larger and more diverse Jewish community in the US or Palestine.
Who knows, if all the Jews wind up in the US perhaps the modern State of Israel would be butterflied away as the US becomes the Jewish homeland.
What would the ramifications of this be? All we need is one country for each persecuted people.
Thanks in advance,
ACG
I read somewhere that Hitler originally hadn't been sold on killing all of the Jews, Roma, etc. His first plan was to get them out of Germany, and he supposedly asked other countries to take them in. It was only after the other countries turned down the refugees (remember "Exodus" and so forth) that the stage was set for the Holocaust.
So consider the following option: for each ethnic group, a country offers to take in the refugees. I was thinking of having the Jews go to the United States or to Palestine, for instance.
Yes, I know that there were plans to send them to Madagascar or Uganda or wherever it was. However, we know that fell through. Besides, one would have expected the refugees to leave for a destination with a closer culture to Europe (Britain or the US). They probably wouldn't have wanted to go to Africa.
I could see the Dutch taking them in. However, things could get dicey if the Second World War breaks out as in OTL and Germany winds up taking over the Netherlands.
The net result is that central Europe finds itself with few Jews as in OTL after the war...but there's a significantly larger and more diverse Jewish community in the US or Palestine.
Who knows, if all the Jews wind up in the US perhaps the modern State of Israel would be butterflied away as the US becomes the Jewish homeland.
What would the ramifications of this be? All we need is one country for each persecuted people.
Thanks in advance,
ACG