Historian tells of Nazis toasting Final Solution (not posted under philosophy)

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[ArcLight]

Last year I read volume 2 of Ian Kershaw's bio of Hitler. According to that book, the Holocaust was actually a sort of "Plan B," launched after other methods for dealing with the Jews were found to be impractical.

At first, the Nazis merely wanted to round up all the Jews and exile them to the most inhospitable lands they could find. Madagascar was considered, as well as Siberia once the Soviet Union was conquered. In practical terms this would have been little different from gassing them outright; still, simply rounding up all the Jews and murdering them turns out to have been a last resort, embraced by people who truly felt a sincere belief that the elimination of Europe's Jews was a moral duty.

[Righty1]

The compromise was that "good" Germans/Prussians who had Jewish blood could be in the army (even a Field Marshall) but, they could not be in the SS. Since the German Jews were the best scientists in the world and Jews were proportionately the most decorated group of WWI German veterans one can only guess what might have happened if the Nazis had picked another target.

[tet68]

Keep in mind that the MAJORITY of those killed in the holocaust were killed in the last year or two of the war.

I'm looking for the quote but as I remember it,most were killed during a period of only 6 to 8 months.

Imagine the resources that could have been used for defense, ie; trains,personel,
only an insane hate could begin to explain it. The Islamists have it too.