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I'm not sure if you are being condescending because you think you are right, or for some other reason. I wasn't even saying whatever you thought I was saying about 1939. You also have some of your history wrong.
The camp system started instantly after Hitler came to power, as did sterilizations and abortions. Things ramped up from there. Systematic mass killing of Jews started in 1941, but it wasn't something that was off the table until "plans were drafted" to do something that they hadn't been ramping up towards. The plans that they drafted were systematic expansions of what had already been happening in a less organized fashion for years.
Hitler didn't invent the idea of starting a war with all of the rest of Europe. He picked it up, along with a lot of other Geopolitik ideas, apparently from Karl Haushofer. That was back in the days when Hitler wasn't unequivocally in charge or even close to. How things would have played out without Hitler at the helm is totally uncertain of course, but plenty of other people had the ideas that became World War 2, and they appeared in Hitler's works all of a sudden in 1923 when he picked them up from Haushofer at the same time Hess and Ribbentrop did.
It's possible that if he was killed in 1933 that we wouldn't have had the big war, just internal misery everlasting within Germany's borders or a ways beyond them. Like I say, it's also possible that the Nazi operation would have played out the same but been far more effective, if a little slower and less stylish without Hitler's high-octane speeches.
We are clearly in early 1933 right now. Ten metaphorical days away from the Reichstag Fire, a little more than a month from the Enabling Act. Of course, we're not bound for things to play out in exactly the same fashion, but that's where we are on the timeline.
Not even sure what to make of this.
I wasn't planning to have historical debate here but you are clearly misinforming anyone who reads your comments.
"Final solution" — mass murder — wasn't planned until 1941 and in 1940 Nazis were still toying with the idea of mass deportations to Madagascar instead.
Just remind me, what is Trump trying to do at the moment?
Go figure.
400,000 people were sterilized in 1933. Gas vans were killing mental patients in 1939. The Einsatzgruppen were traveling with the army in 1939, shooting Jews en masse in some cases. "Aktion T4" was put into practice in 1940, also with mental patients. Eugenics scholars had been talking about exterminating those with inferior genes since 1920. The deportation to Madagascar was talked about under the assumption that the harsh conditions and lack of civilization would leave most of the Jews to die "naturally." Deliberate starvation in the ghettos killed tens of thousands of Jews before a formalized "final solution" was planned for. And so on.
Not sure how you got that my "ramping up" description was misinforming people. That's what happened. As much fun as this is, I have completed as much of this conversation as I want to have.
Again, your point is? Mass murder of Jews wasn't planned until 1941. In 1940 Nazis were planning mass deportations to Madagascar. These are facts, I am not sure what is you are trying to achieve here?
Furthermore, your comments only support my point as the goals escalate: Trump is attempting mass deportations now - like nazis were going to just before Final Solution
If someone was to kill Hitler, neither WW2 nor Final Solution would have happened.
Actually, hold on. Maybe you'll lose focus if I mention the mental patients.
How's that?
Sure, let me try one more time.
Happier with that presentation? It concerns mass murder only, I removed the two sentences that added additional context but not specific actions of mass murder.
Again, what is your fucking point here?
That Nazis planned Final Solution before 1941? That's not true or at least historians didn't find any traces of that.
That political goals escalate and mass murder start with smaller goals? Yes, 100%:
Hitler started with eradicating Jews from public life, then planning to deport them, then murdering them.
Trump started with eradicating migrants from public life, he is now deporting them. Go figure what's next.
Hitler wasn't assassinated before he started a war killing millions. There was a chance but it didn't happen. Killing a potential mass murderer is definitely a lesser evil.