No one can be sure, although quite a few records from the concentration camps survive, enough to put the numbers inthe millions. The estimate is between five and seven million. Of course, even though the Jews were the primary scapegoats, the Nazis included millions of other undesirables, including many of the Christian leadership of Europe, mainly Catholic and Protestant.
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Since many of the answers thus far fall in the "What if" category I'll add :
1.) What if the D-Day invasion had not been successful?
2.) What if intelligence would've been better and Operation Market Garden had been cancelled? (Could the men and materials have been better used by the Allies in furthering the push already started with the D-Day Invasion?)
3.) What if the Battle of Britain had gone in the German's favor and the UK was invaded by Germany? (Would this have delayed the United States' participation in the ETO? Would they have conventrated on the PTO first then moved our carrier forces into the Atlantic, since there would've been no real base to stage an attack from?)
1.) What if the D-Day invasion had not been successful?
2.) What if intelligence would've been better and Operation Market Garden had been cancelled? (Could the men and materials have been better used by the Allies in furthering the push already started with the D-Day Invasion?)
3.) What if the Battle of Britain had gone in the German's favor and the UK was invaded by Germany? (Would this have delayed the United States' participation in the ETO? Would they have conventrated on the PTO first then moved our carrier forces into the Atlantic, since there would've been no real base to stage an attack from?)
1. What would have happened had France and Britian moved into the Rhineland when the Nazi's occupied it ?
2. How might things have been different had the Czech's not been pressured into handing the Sudetenland over to Hitler, thus taking away a large part of their border defenses ?
3. How might the war against Russia have been different had Hitler not ordered Field Marshall von Paulus to stay in Stalingrad way past the point where such an attack could have succeeded ?
This could go on for a while.
I can already think of three more I'd probably ask about this topic.
2. How might things have been different had the Czech's not been pressured into handing the Sudetenland over to Hitler, thus taking away a large part of their border defenses ?
3. How might the war against Russia have been different had Hitler not ordered Field Marshall von Paulus to stay in Stalingrad way past the point where such an attack could have succeeded ?
This could go on for a while.
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