What if Hitler liked minorities?

Hendryk

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Say that they're Germans who've been corrupted and need re-education, perhaps.

Or claim that German Jews are really "Jewish Germans."
It boils down to the way modern Germany came into being as a country. A country like France was a state that imposed its rule on a culturally diverse territory and fused it all into a nation. Conversely, Germany was a bunch of people who, between the late 18th and early 19th centuries, started to self-identify as members of a German nation even though they lived in different polities, and who were gradually brought together in a process that was completed with the foundation of the Second Reich. So Germany, from the start, existed as a country intended for Germans to live in. Minorities were more or less tolerated, but they no longer could be in the next iteration, as the very purpose of the Third Reich was to have a country in which all Germans, and nobody but Germans, would live.
 
What if Hitler had not looked down his nose at the Poles and made a viable alliance with Marshall Jozef Pilsudski ?

Hitler would've kept a smiling peace with Poland to insure a buffer against the Soviet Union and a Polish Army allied alongside the Wehrmacht in Operation Barbarossa would've made for better results considering Poland's animosity towards Russia after years of domination and the recent Russo-Polish War

Not to mention Hitler would've had a better jumping off point for the 1941 Invasion

And as for the Jewish Question....

What if Hitler had allowed the Zionist Paramilitaries to benefit from German Miltarist training and tactics to help seize the Suez Canal in exchange for establishing a Jewish Homeland in Palestine

Or....

Allowing Albert Einstein to live in Germany unmolested along with the other scientists to develop the Atomic Bomb for Germany ?

This is really ASB... Why on earth would Germany attack the Soviet Union without holding Poland? The whole purpose of the Lebensraum ideology (the cause of the war with the USSR) was for Germany to comprise a large and compact territory, ethnically homogenous, that would secure the position of the German state as a superpower for a long period of time. Just look at the map and realize how ridiculous a German empire with a large Polish state in the middle of it looks like. Any alliance would probably have been only used as a deterrent against a Soviet invasion of Poland, without complicating very much the irreconcilable rivalry between two rabidly nationalistic states.
And many users have already explained that German National Socialism would just not be German National Socialism without antisemitism. And that means millions of butterflies...
 
It boils down to the way modern Germany came into being as a country. A country like France was a state that imposed its rule on a culturally diverse territory and fused it all into a nation. Conversely, Germany was a bunch of people who, between the late 18th and early 19th centuries, started to self-identify as members of a German nation even though they lived in different polities, and who were gradually brought together in a process that was completed with the foundation of the Second Reich. So Germany, from the start, existed as a country intended for Germans to live in. Minorities were more or less tolerated, but they no longer could be in the next iteration, as the very purpose of the Third Reich was to have a country in which all Germans, and nobody but Germans, would live.

I don't find your arguement right.
Modern Germany was formed at a time when the National State was regarded as the right way of State.
And the Germans got the idea from France.

Other Nations also formed in their modern form at this time like Denmark. As a state of Danes! But missing numbers in Germany and Sweden.
Minorities of the state was tolerated because the King needed them. It was not a popular choise and at times the jews were seen as scapegoats but it wasn't allowed to develop because of the interest of the state.

Modern Germany also soon came to contain not only home brewed minorities like Poles and jews but also Danes and Frenchmen.
But these were wanted by the State. In the case of the Danes bad treatment of those missing nationals were used as a stick against their Motherland by the German government because of Danish weakness compared to Germany. That principle wasn't applaciable to France.

It was only following WWI that those minorities except the jews were removed from the GERMAN state and the GERMAN state became a state of Germans.
 
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