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A better world was possible (a better world still is)

Tumblr @avramchajabeing a jew studying preholocaust european jewish history is just mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns- @meirmakesstuffWWII alternate history stories always go “What if the Nazis won.” WHAT IF THE JEWS LIVED? @kanguinThat’s actually such […]

November 9, 2022

Tumblr @avramchaja being a jew studying preholocaust european jewish history is just mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns- @meirmakesstuff WWII alternate history stories always go “What if the Nazis won.” WHAT IF THE JEWS LIVED? @kanguin That’s actually such a good point about alternative history. So many ask “what if we got the bad ending?”, ignorant of the fact we did, that’s just a worse ending. Asking “what if the Nazis won” allows one to live in the safe world where the Nazis were the root source of evil in WWII. Asking “what if the Jews lived” forces you to confront the fact that almost all of Europe was complicit in their eradication. Every European power, the United states, everyone involved hated the Jewish people. Everyone was complicit in antisemitism, everyone just sat back and let it happen. It took an invasion of Poland for the UK and France to act, and it took a direct attack on the US for the US to officially get involved. All of the torture, enslavement, and murder of Jews before this were overlooked because not even below the surface, the German antisemitism wasn’t unique. And basically nobody has the guts to address that.

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