PC/WI: Jews worked to death instead of being gassed

Say that during WW2, the Nazis decide to delay their plans of outright extermination until after the war is won. At the moment, they will use the Jews (and everyone else in the concentration camps) as free slave labour to make weapons/ammunition/equipment for the war effort. Many will still die - from hunger, abuse, disease and exhaution.

But...

1) How much lower is the death toll ITTL?

2) Is there any chance of Hitler approving of this plan?

3) Would this be considered just as evil as OTL's Holocaust? (long and agonizing suffering rather than a "quick" death from gas)

4) How would the Nazis be perceived ITTL? Somewhat less negatively?

5) How worse is Holocaust denial? (They can always resort to saying "It was an unfortunate accident" and that "They really didn't meant to kill them")

6) Does a lower shock factor butterfly away Israel?
 
They largely did. The Nazis first killed off those unable to work- children, the elderly and the handicap. There would be a culling of workers to make room for new arrivals eliminating the weak. At Aushwitz, new arrivals would be given a choice of walking from the train or riding in trucks. Those who choose to ride were taken to gas chambers, those who walked were put to work

There were massacres of able bodied during the round ups and the workers weren't as productive as they could have been because of overwork and starvation but the idea that there was a huge amount of lost labor is simply wrong.

To answer your specific questions

1) death toll would be about the same

2) he pretty much did

3) yes

4) just as bad

5) Holocaust denial is a fringe movement with little support except for attention seeking trolls. These groups are likely to exist no matter what

6) The Holocaust shifts Jewish attitudes. Before the war, Zionism was a fringe movement that most Jews rejected on religious grounds. After the holocaust, attitudes shifted Don't see how anything here changes
 

GujaratiRaj

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Hitler remembers WW1 and has a (slight) change of heart, decided to never wish death by gas upon another soul.
 
Many more Jews, are shot. Or freeze or starve to death while locked in trains when the Nazis abandon them in retreat. As opposed to in gas chambers. Holocaust denial exponentially worse.
 
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