Hitler was not opposed and defeated because of the Holocaust.
If Hitler had somehow conquered Europe and installed a stable power, the Holocaust probably would be a footnote.
If Hitler had somehow conquered Europe and installed a stable power, the Holocaust probably would be a footnote.
I am therefore happy the Nazis bit off more than they could chew by starting a war with the Brits, which eventually brought the Americans on board, and the Russians, where they suffered most of their losses. On the one hand it seems that it's just a matter of chance their leadership was so grossly incompetent, but on the other hand maybe we can always bank on such types to get caught up in their own rhetoric and they by definition are too ambitious for their own 'good'.
Barbarossa (invasion of USSR): June 1941
Pearl Harbor: December 1941.
If the Nazis had somehow negotiated a successful end to hostilities with the UK between 1940 and 1941, they could have become a stable power holding much of central Europe. The problem they faced was lack of oil - there isn't much central Europe. That forced the push east into the oil fields of the caucasus. The Japanese invasions were similarly triggered by the need for oil that could not be embargoed from them.
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It would've been publicized as a success, not something to hide away.
The US didn't drop nuclear bombs on Japan just because the people there are Japanese.
> Why do you think a victorious German society would've cared that deeply about Jews who have been historically loathed?
Why do you think Germans would not care that their government exterminated six million Jews?
> It would've been publicized as a success, not something to hide away.
Then why did they take such great lengths to hide it away?
But then you had the rise in all aspects of art, politics and culture of the Jewish Americans and for them obviously it was the event in WWII and great part of their identity and life. So it percolated to the other parts of the society. If Chinese Americans have risen to prominence in the 80s we would have gotten Unit 731 instead of Schindler's list. After all a creator creates on topics that are close to them.
In my part of Eastern Europe when learning about WWII the emphasis was about the monumental struggle and bodycount of the USSR and the Holocaust was sidelined.
It was kind of a big deal immediately
If you look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Holocaust_films if we look at US
there are just a couple per decade when we reach late 70s early 80s when the pace picks up considerably.