Nazi's without the Killing

Mass slaughterer and genocide was integral in Nazi foreign policy.

Yes it was. I don't understand why you've phrased that as if it's a correction of something I've said. I'd hate for you to be implying that I don't agree.
 
In all they war might have gone the same as OTL, but the base ideology might have survived

Starting and losing a world war would still discredit Fascism almost as much as OTL, in my view. Nazis without death camps still would've done terrible stuff, starving millions in the USSR and, well, trying to dominate the world by military conquest.

Unless the OP means "Nazis without the killing" to be pacifist Nazis, who wouldn't be Nazis in any recognizable form...
 
Did the Nazis declare war on the British empire? On Britain, Canada, South Africa? I believe it was the other way around, in the days after Germany's invasion of Poland.

Those nasty brits! Declaring war on poor Germany just for invading yet another faraway little country.

Seriously, what point are you trying to make?
 
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Nazism progresses like it did in real life, however, Hitler bothers not with expending high amounts of resources into sending Jews to death camps, and only sets up hard labor camps, a Jew or few hundred die in accidents/executions but not on the same scale as the Holocaust in our time, Jews are restricted to ghettos. Does this help the Nazi's at all?

They'd still be seen as horrible, but just less horrible. Perhaps bad in the way most people see Stalinism or Apartheid South Africa, but not in the (almost inhuman) way they are seen OTL. And maybe denizens of AH.com would post threads asking what would've happened if the Nazi's had actually gone whole hog and decided to exterminate the "Untermensch" instead of merely oppressing them.
 
I believe he's responding to this:

Easy, tiger.

Ah, I hadn't noticed. That's what happens when you get so used to the quote function that you assume everybody uses it...

Still, the Anglo-Polish alliance was known to Hitler and company at the time. It didn't take a genius to realize that attacking Poland would have amounted to declaring war on Britain.
 
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Ah, I hadn't noticed. That's what happens when you get so used to the quote function that you assume everybody uses it...

Still, the Anglo-Polish alliance was known to Hitler and company at the time. It didn't take a genius to realize that attacking Poland would have amounted to declaring war on Britain.

I know the feeling.

Yes, but it's still technically inaccurate to say they declared war on Britain. You could even stretch the definition to say Germany attacked Britain (by attacking a treaty-defined ally) but still.
 
Oh yes, sorry about the lack of qouting. Sometimes I find myself groping around all those technical functions on forums. Anyway, I would argue that it was by no means known for certain that Britain and France would declare war on Germany if they attacked Poland, thats what I was getting at. Quite an involved discussion about it in the thread about France wriggling out. Was a declaration of war by Britain and France on Germany likely? yes, certain, no.
 
Nazis are considered pure evil because they placed themselves, "pure Aryan Germans", above everyone else. Everyone else was to be eliminated by killing or slavery. Everyone who didn't fit a prescribed mold wasn't considered human. Anybody who didn't agree didn't fit the mold, and was subject to elimination. There's no such thing as a soft cuddly nazi. Hitler wasn't the only pure evil person in history, but he is the first that comes to mind.
 
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