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The war was never at any point about fighting anti-semitism or stopping the Holocaust. Even if the full extent of the campaign to the exterminate the Jews was k
by throwaway8581 6y ago
The war was never at any point about fighting anti-semitism or stopping the Holocaust. Even if the full extent of the campaign to the exterminate the Jews was known, it’s questionable that it would have been sufficient to drive the western powers to war. 75 million people were killed in the war, many times what the Holocaust could have killed even if the war didn’t interrupt it.
The Axis powers started a campaign of world domination and the countries not in the club were not very happy about that. For one, they foresaw being next to be conquered. And no one wants to be reduced to servitude to a much greater power. That is why the war was fought.
- Guthur 6y agoThe world domination line fits for a Saturday cartoon but is far too reductive for real world geo politics. I don't think Germany was any more into world domination than Britain and France with their extensive world empires. Germany lacked secure access to strategic resources and they knew it. Their policies of autarky reinforced this view. The Nazi leadership also appeared to believe there would be an inevitable conflict between what they saw as Jewish led Bolshevism and the world.
- croes 6y agoNever wondered why Germany had a pretty large jewish community? Anti-semitism was/is quite common in Europe. But Germany had the reputation of being a refuge for the outcasts.
- airhead969 6y agoIsn't it now migrants who almost displaced gypsies as the most convenient and socially more acceptable European scapegoat outcasts?
- airhead969 6y agoWhat's curious is the Axis powers seemed to correlate strongly with countries that would eventually reach peak population sooner than others.