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For those who don't know, wikipedia has some good info on this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenstrasse_protest

In short, it was a protest by German women to have their Jewish husbands back. During the event, the police and the SS arrived, intending to break up the event. Despite threatening to gun down the women multiple times, the women refused to leave. After a while, the men were released to the women by the order of Joseph Goebbels.

So what if the protests turned bloody? Would the massacre of German women have forced an earlier defeat for the Nazi regime? Or would it be like Tienanmen, where people die and nothing major changes for the war?

I suppose one could state that such a massacre might provoke more into protesting, with hundreds of women turning into thousands, popping up into cities across Germany, reducing production of weapons and German soldiers questioning their service to Hitler, seeing how their government committed an awful act. German resistance could rise and more Valkyrie-like attempts could result.

On the other hand, one could also state it might sour up future attempts at protesting, maybe the Nazi regime making up some excuses how the women were "brainwashed" by their Jewish husbands into sabotaging the war effort or whatever bullshit the Nazis pulled from their asses. The war ends as OTL.

So what would have happened, if the protests turned bloody?
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