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**Nifoziyfar** · 11-12-2007, 12:32 AM

Firstly, you have no evidence whether it would have or not - fact. Secondly, it was already known what the Nazi's had planned for the Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally/physically disabled, the concept of Aryan Master Race and world domination. One had only to read Mein Kampf, the Nazi press, and witness the repression that was already evident in German society.
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/pre1933.htm

I don't want to drag this off on a tangent but the vast majority of academic thought post AJP Taylor and Alan Bullock in the 60s on Nazi Germany (revisionist and post-revisionist) would suggest Hitler did not have a plan for the invasion of Poland, Russia, the Holocaust etc. The most important book on Hitler in recent times, Kershaw's two part biography, argues that the move towards the Holocaust was the result of an increasing anti-Semetic elite and bureaucratic power struggles. Indeed, although he certainly supported the move, the decision for mechanised Holocaust (as opposed to the Einzatzgruppen) was taken by a group of civil servants at Wannsee. Even then, several of the attendees did not initially favour the extermination route.

11-12-2007, 12:32 AM	#12
Nifoziyfar Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 423 Senior Member	Firstly, you have no evidence whether it would have or not - fact. Secondly, it was already known what the Nazi's had planned for the Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally/physically disabled, the concept of Aryan Master Race and world domination. One had only to read Mein Kampf, the Nazi press, and witness the repression that was already evident in German society. http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/pre1933.htm I don't want to drag this off on a tangent but the vast majority of academic thought post AJP Taylor and Alan Bullock in the 60s on Nazi Germany (revisionist and post-revisionist) would suggest Hitler did not have a plan for the invasion of Poland, Russia, the Holocaust etc. The most important book on Hitler in recent times, Kershaw's two part biography, argues that the move towards the Holocaust was the result of an increasing anti-Semetic elite and bureaucratic power struggles. Indeed, although he certainly supported the move, the decision for mechanised Holocaust (as opposed to the Einzatzgruppen) was taken by a group of civil servants at Wannsee. Even then, several of the attendees did not initially favour the extermination route.
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