What would the effects be on the world if there was no WWII-induced Holocaust of the Jews, etc.? Would a different widespread genocide have taken place? What of the lack of a galvanizing motive away from the "horrors of war"?
So is this a world where Hitler never came to power and World War II never occurred?
Well, today there would be quite a few more Jews than today, of course. However, anti-Semitism would not have been discredited, and some locales (Russia, Romania, ect.) would remain pretty hostile to their Jewish minorities. There would be continuous emigration West.
If any Israel is created in TTL, it would probably resemble the proposal put forward by our world's Peel Commission.
Another possibility for no holocaust, although not a pleasant one, is a German win in WW2 and implementation of the Madagascar Plan.
The Madagascar Plan would merely be a different kind of Holocaust, instead of dying in labor camps in the General Government, they would die on a far off place of which we know nothing; stateless, unwanted, without resources.
The Madagascar Plan would merely be a different kind of Holocaust, instead of dying in labor camps in the General Government, they would die on a far off place of which we know nothing; stateless, unwanted, without resources.
Not really. It would be ethnic cleansing on a colossal scale; it would be horrendous and an atrocity and the deaths would, probably, be in the millions; but it would not be the same as the Holocaust.
I'm not so sure it would be the case about Russia. A lot of authors (including V. Grossman and I. Erenburg) commented that official Anti-Semitism grew exponentially post-WWII in the Soviet Union, as if Soviets caught the bug when they occupied Germany. And popular Anti-Semitism in Russia is usually not strong enough to warrant emigration (it were official policies and search for greener pastures that pushed Jews out of Soviet Union, not hatred from gentiles).However, anti-Semitism would not have been discredited, and some locales (Russia, Romania, ect.) would remain pretty hostile to their Jewish minorities. There would be continuous emigration West.
I dunno, rabid nationalist regime (and this particular "No Hitler" scenario assumes that much) should go after assembling "Lost Germans" too. Territory is important, but Germans are vehicles of the "German Idea" in Teutonic myths, they care about souls much more than about soil.Hwoever, I believe that a monarchist type of alternate Germany would go after the Polish corridor first, recovering Prussian territory rather than looking for Anschluss with Austria or annexation of parts of Czechoslovakia.