WI: Hitler Does Not Exterminate Jews During WW2?

One of the many reasons Germany is said to have lost WW2 is because they were too busy managing both the massive amount of troops in battle and the simultaneous slaughtering of the Jewish people, causing resources to be poorly managed. Let's say Hitler waits to deport/slaughter the Jews until after WW2 is over and instead gives them Apartheid-esque conditions to deal with, while still forcing them to serve in WW2. How do you think this might affect Germany?
 

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One of the many reasons Germany is said to have lost WW2 is because they were too busy managing both the massive amount of troops in battle and the simultaneous slaughtering of the Jewish people, causing resources to be poorly managed. Let's say Hitler waits to deport/slaughter the Jews until after WW2 is over and instead gives them Apartheid-esque conditions to deal with, while still forcing them to serve in WW2. How do you think this might affect Germany?
As is always said in these cases, then he wouldn't be Hitler.

The slaughter of the Jews (and the other "undesirables") was the entire point. It was feature, not a bug.
 
As is always said in these cases, then he wouldn't be Hitler.

The slaughter of the Jews (and the other "undesirables") was the entire point. It was feature, not a bug.

He'd still intend to do it ITTL, he'd just have the foresight to realize that he couldn't manage both at once and would need to wait for the second part.
 
Reducing Jewish deaths would require Hitler to radically change his oratorical style. Just like modern stand-up comedians, Hitler began many of his speaches with a series of jabs at minorities: Catholics, gypsies, communists, homosexuals, Jews, etc. Whichever minority earned the most boos from the audience became the topic for the rest of Hitler's speach. By focussing his audience on a minority group, Hitler was able to up lift his audience by blaming all their problems on some one else. It is much easier to blame your problems on outsiders than to change your own ways.
That is a classic schoolyard bully tactic.

Secondly, Hitler inspired his German audiences with promises of "lebensraum." He promised Germans that they would own plantations in Eastern Europe recently vacated by Jewish, Slavic, etc. untermensch. Remaining untermensch would be slowly worked to death for German profit.

What Hitler failed to understand is that bullying produces rapid short-term results but poor long-term results. Bullying victims/slaves only work hard enough to avoid beatings. Ergo slaves rarely work hard enough to turn a profit in an industrialized economy. Hitler enslaved hundreds of thousands of Jews and slowly worked them to death, but slaves are ill-suited to manufacturing sophisticated modern weapons and quality suffered.
OTL Canadian artillery officer George Blackburn reported that significant numbers of German artillery shells fired against him were duds. Many of those duds were manufactured in Czechoslovakia.
If you want Hitler to exterminate fewer Jews, you need to convince him to be less of a bully.
 
Does this in any way imply that the Nazis stop slaughting and starving Poles and Ukranians? Or the economic, religious, political, civil, etc leadership of most of Eastern Europe? If anything having Jewish people be exempt from this would make them even more hated by Eastern Europeans (who were generally not fond of Jewish people back then, even if not murderously so) with them thinking Yiddish speaking Jews are basically Germans or getting special rights. But yah, maybe people classified as Jews are put into ghettos and let to starve or shoved into Eastern Europe to starve. They will still die en masse.
 
Does this in any way imply that the Nazis stop slaughting and starving Poles and Ukranians? Or the economic, religious, political, civil, etc leadership of most of Eastern Europe? If anything having Jewish people be exempt from this would make them even more hated by Eastern Europeans (who were generally not fond of Jewish people back then, even if not murderously so) with them thinking Yiddish speaking Jews are basically Germans or getting special rights. But yah, maybe people classified as Jews are put into ghettos and let to starve or shoved into Eastern Europe to starve. They will still die en masse.

Hitler would still slaughter Poles and Ukranians. In this ATL, he'd only refrain from mass murdering Jews immediately because he'd realize he'd need more manpower and that it'd be extremely hard to manage both a massive amount of soldiers and concentration camps. The plan ITTL is that Hitler would claim to be on the side of Jews at first, that they're one of many German groups that have been bamboozled by the Slavs. Once Hitler takes care of the Slavs and supposedly wins WW2 ITTL, he then backstabs the Jews and begins removing them from society once he's gained everything he's wanted.
 
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