Extermination vs “not liking” the new government?
You would equate those as equal drivers?
“Extermination vs “not liking” the new government? You would equate those as equal drivers?”
No, and that’s why stated when Hitler took power (twice). He NEVER talked about extermination of Jews early on (and I don’t think he even did when he was doing it, due to the obvious political fallout), and my understanding was that he had no desire to do so, until late in the war when he felt (wrongly) that he had no other option. If he wanted extermination 10+ years earlier, at the start of his reign, he could have easily done it - but he did not - he just wanted them separated and, ideally, gone from his country.