Postwar map of a Allies and Axis v Comintern WW2

You could make the same argument for the Arab States or the Islamic republic of Iran in regards Israel .There also the United States and various communist powers, Germany and Soviet Union during the 1920s and 1939 to 1941.
There is nothing inherent in being Arab, Iranian, or Muslim that requires the same degree of animus towards the Jews that Nazism does. Those states use anti-Jewish hatred to bolster their regimes, whereas the Nazis use their regime to bolster anti-Jewish hatred.

I don’t think you’re going to find anyone to agree with you, and going around in circles will just derail this entire discussion.
 
Feels like Comintern is too underpowered to be the sole focus of both Axis and Allies. They need to be bigger. Maybe Nationalist China does better and is firmly allied with Moscow (they do not have to be communist to achieve that). Maybe Stalin attacks Iran and India following the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
my speculation has always been around Subhas Chandra Bose and Azad Hind, as he went first to USSR and rumored near his end to be planning a return there, the Soviets could back him against the British in India?

if the Soviets wanted they could have aided the Japanese greatly, both in China and fueling their war machine.
 
I don't think nuclear weapons alone are a good explanation for the lack of WW3, although they probably did play a role. After all, the US had massive nuclear superiority over the USSR until the mid-1960s, and did not start WW3.
Trotskyite foreign policy Reds doing better in China, Republicans win Spanish Civil War and then go for Portugal, Russia invades Poland first then goes for Finland ...
 
Germany did allied with various groups it regarded as inferiors or targets for extermination


In the 1930s, the plans were to deport the Jews to either Palestine or Madagascar. They did allow German jews to flee in the pre-war years and did make ties with various Jewish groups in opposition to the British.

Which would anger Italy, who is more important than the Arab States. So by basis of it's alliance with Italy, Germany will have to oppose the Arab States.


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The Jews were hated above all else the whole foundation of Nazism was Jew hatred it got them into power it was taught in schools. It was cultural and political piller of German culture under Hitler. They would never be allies it would go against the very core of the ideology. It's like asking ISIS to ally themselves with a gay rights group or a Yazidi rights group.

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The Madagascar plan never went anywhere they rejected it in favor of the finale solution


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They would either tell Italy to shut up or they would throw the Arabs under the bus.
 

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You could make the same argument for the Arab States or the Islamic republic of Iran in regards Israel .There also the United States and various communist powers, Germany and Soviet Union during the 1920s and 1939 to 1941.
Actually, contray to propaganda on both sides neither the U.S. nor any of the eastern Block states were entirely dedicated to killing every single living individual of their opponents.

The Nazis, however, did hold that as a goal.
 
How committed are you to the Axis being the Axis of OTL with he Nazis running Germany, and the timing of the conflict?
 
USSR moves into Iran prior to being invaded by Germany, that might be enough for the Allied side to finally declare war on them?

simultaneously have the Nazi regime sign some type of accord with Vichy which has them departing large parts of France.

the Soviets could reach the same M-R Pact type deal to supply Japan with fuels (under the rationale this would secure their East & West fronts while they battle the UK in Iran)

with a perceived threat to India,closer ties between USSR and Japan, possibly only scenario the Allies (really only UK at this point) would deal with the Nazi regime?

Germany could stage a somewhat more limited invasion than historical Barbarossa? "liberate" the Baltics and grab Leningrad, Belorussia, the areas they could invade directly from occupied Poland.

have a "devil's agreement" with UK & France for some percentage of Iraqi oil to replace their dealings with the Soviets?

the USSR is much weaker without L-L, Nazis holding Eastern Europe, pre-war borders plus some large parts of NW USSR.
 
USSR moves into Iran prior to being invaded by Germany, that might be enough for the Allied side to finally declare war on them?

simultaneously have the Nazi regime sign some type of accord with Vichy which has them departing large parts of France.

the Soviets could reach the same M-R Pact type deal to supply Japan with fuels (under the rationale this would secure their East & West fronts while they battle the UK in Iran)

with a perceived threat to India,closer ties between USSR and Japan, possibly only scenario the Allies (really only UK at this point) would deal with the Nazi regime?

Germany could stage a somewhat more limited invasion than historical Barbarossa? "liberate" the Baltics and grab Leningrad, Belorussia, the areas they could invade directly from occupied Poland.

have a "devil's agreement" with UK & France for some percentage of Iraqi oil to replace their dealings with the Soviets?

the USSR is much weaker without L-L, Nazis holding Eastern Europe, pre-war borders plus some large parts of NW USSR.

The scenario presumes the Axis never goes to war with the Allies at all.
 
The Nazis are ideologically incapable of allying with a Jewish state, and I feel like that shouldn't need explanation.

There is nothing inherent in being Arab, Iranian, or Muslim that requires the same degree of animus towards the Jews that Nazism does. Those states use anti-Jewish hatred to bolster their regimes, whereas the Nazis use their regime to bolster anti-Jewish hatred.

I don’t think you’re going to find anyone to agree with you, and going around in circles will just derail this entire discussion.
To be clear, I agree with you all, but I am now morbidly curious as to how a surviving Nazi Germany (perhaps in a scenario where the putative Soviet-Axis alliance had come to fruition, or at least Operation Barbarossa had never occurred) would interact with an independent Israel run by Lehi.

 
Fairly committed, and within a few years
Classic Elser Plot succeeds scenario then. Goering takes over, and there's peace in the West by the middle of 1940. The peace deal prevents the Reich from gobbling up all of the General Government areas and the "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia", which, despite independence, remain in the German orbit. Attempted Communist takeovers of one or both, and/or the Winter War, and/or Soviet designs on Romania could be the trigger for a war with the Third Reich and the Allies against the USSR. There is a timeline on this board, which I believe remains unfinished, that does something like this.
 
Classic Elser Plot succeeds scenario then. Goering takes over, and there's peace in the West by the middle of 1940. The peace deal prevents the Reich from gobbling up all of the General Government areas and the "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia", which, despite independence, remain in the German orbit. Attempted Communist takeovers of one or both, and/or the Winter War, and/or Soviet designs on Romania could be the trigger for a war with the Third Reich and the Allies against the USSR. There is a timeline on this board, which I believe remains unfinished, that does something like this.
The scenario presumes the Soviets beat the Axis to being at war with the West.
 
Germany did allied with various groups it regarded as inferiors or targets for extermination
The Nazis only did this with groups that they felt didn't require immediate extermination. The Nazis felt the Italians and the French were inferior races but felt they were sufficiently high enough in their bullshit racial hierarchy to tolerate. The Jews, on the other hand, were the existential enemy of the German people who had to be exterminated no matter the cost. Assisting the Jews in building a state would be completely contradictory to everything the Nazi Party stood for.
In the 1930s, the plans were to deport the Jews to either Palestine or Madagascar. They did allow German jews to flee in the pre-war years and did make ties with various Jewish groups in opposition to the British.
These deportation plans were just a way to get the Jews out of Europe quickly. The Nazis had no intention of allowing the Jews deported there to survive long term, it was just a way to put the concentration camps in another location.
You could make the same argument for the Arab States or the Islamic republic of Iran in regards Israel .There also the United States and various communist powers, Germany and Soviet Union during the 1920s and 1939 to 1941.
That's a false equivalency. The ideological compromises of the Cold War or the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact are in no way comparable to what is being proposed.
 
The Nazis only did this with groups that they felt didn't require immediate extermination. The Nazis felt the Italians and the French were inferior races but felt they were sufficiently high enough in their bullshit racial hierarchy to tolerate. The Jews, on the other hand, were the existential enemy of the German people who had to be exterminated no matter the cost. Assisting the Jews in building a state would be completely contradictory to everything the Nazi Party stood for.
Exactly. Also notice that while they had whermacht and waffen ss units from the various occupied countries they never once thaught of having one made up of jews. Also as late as 1945 when they needed every single man to fight they still wasted men as well as resources on the extermination of the jews. The "jewish problem" was one of the main pillars of their twisted idealogy there simply was no compromise with them.
 
Exactly. Also notice that while they had whermacht and waffen ss units from the various occupied countries they never once thaught of having one made up of jews. Also as late as 1945 when they needed every single man to fight they still wasted men as well as resources on the extermination of the jews. The "jewish problem" was one of the main pillars of their twisted idealogy there simply was no compromise with them.
True, although there was one exception with the Karaites, whose leaders managed to convince the Nazis that their sect of Judaism was in fact racially Turkish, basing their argument on the theory of a Khazar origin. I agree though that the Nazis would not consent to any sort of alliance between them and any Jewish state that might form in Palestine.
 
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Classic Elser Plot succeeds scenario then. Goering takes over, and there's peace in the West by the middle of 1940. The peace deal prevents the Reich from gobbling up all of the General Government areas and the "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia", which, despite independence, remain in the German orbit. Attempted Communist takeovers of one or both, and/or the Winter War, and/or Soviet designs on Romania could be the trigger for a war with the Third Reich and the Allies against the USSR. There is a timeline on this board, which I believe remains unfinished, that does something like this.
How does Goering taking over make the Allies predisposed to cut a deal with Germany? Anything less than a full withdrawal from Poland and Czechoslovakia would have been a unacceptable to the Allied governments.
 
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