Re: Future of Yiddish Eastern Europe in no-WWII world

am05@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> Let's say that Hitler is satisfied with getting Austria and Czechia
> and not that obsessed with Danzig/Eastern Prussia issue (for example,
> there is an agreement on a connecting highway). Or, even better, he
> dies in 1939 (say, plane crash or some natural cause) and Goerring (or
> whoever would be his successor at this time) is considerably less
> bellicose. Then, the German Jews are being persecuted but not the
> Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Rumanian and Hungarian ones.

Well, the Nazis did seem to have a "banner" effect on anti-semitism,
OTL. Seeing the Nazis persecuting their Jews (and getting away with it)
encouraged anti-semites in other countries to step up persecution in
their own countries.  Indeed, the Nazis actively promoted such behavior.

Old Toby
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