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

On Jul 11, 2:29=A0pm, Old Toby <tobiasburmeis...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> a...@[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. =A0Indeed, the Nazis actively promoted such
behavior=
..
>
True, but in most cases trhings did not get all the way to the open
pogroms and mass killings until the Nazies got into these areas (like
Western Ukraine and Lithuania).