> Sorry, but this is a very naive point of view. The Nazi solution was to kill as many of everything as fast they can, the t4 programme and hands on killings were already daily business. The only thing holding the Nazis back was a functional USSR, as soon they anticipated the fall of Moscow, the termination camps have been built in no time.
Sorry, but that's a very naive and quite wrong point of view.
The Wannsee conference, where it was actually decided to mass murder industrially the Jews was in January 1942, and happened then because they saw they won't have a quick victory against the USSR; otherwise it would have waited after that. Before the conference, there were small scale proofs of concept by local eager commanders, nothing more.
As was already established in the article, the USSR didn't care about Jews, why would they be holding back the Nazis? Nothing was stopping them from industrially murdering all Jews deported to the General Government in 1941, yet they didn't. The policy then was murder through torture, overwork and hunger.
It was rather that Germany thought they can do whatever they want once they believed Moscow is about to fall. I agree the Soviets did not care much more for Jews than Nazi Germany, hell, they even have been kinda allied or not entirely hostile to eachother at some time, like the Poland split.
Sorry, but that's a very naive and quite wrong point of view.
The Wannsee conference, where it was actually decided to mass murder industrially the Jews was in January 1942, and happened then because they saw they won't have a quick victory against the USSR; otherwise it would have waited after that. Before the conference, there were small scale proofs of concept by local eager commanders, nothing more.
As was already established in the article, the USSR didn't care about Jews, why would they be holding back the Nazis? Nothing was stopping them from industrially murdering all Jews deported to the General Government in 1941, yet they didn't. The policy then was murder through torture, overwork and hunger.