Awesome quote from my Indian coworker

[erratio]

"I wish Hitler came to my country, then there wouldn't be so many people"

4 hours later and it still amuses me :)

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[erratio.livejournal.com]

heh, speaking of shameless plugs I just told my friend (who was bugging me because he was bored at work) to go read you instead.

Fascinating stuff, I didn't really know the details of the 'honorary Aryan' status. Although I think that could just as much have been a way of saying "I'll deal with you later" since the one thing the Nazi party was not was militarily stupid, they did their best to minimise the number of fronts they were fighting on.
In any case, I believe that Mein Kampf points strongly towards Hitler having planned the destruction of the Jews from the outset. If Israel had been created a decade earlier the Jews would have been strongly encouraged to emigrate purely so that they would stop contaminating Germany, and after the Third Reich was well established in Europe they could then go after the rest of their racial enemies.

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I think that Mein Kampf definately indicates Hitler's hatred of Jews, but his desire to exterminate them? (I haven't read it, by the way; have you?) Your point regarding honorary Aryan status is a good one, but once we start speculating about what would have happened afterwards we end up on some pretty rocky ground, and we only get back to the original intentionalist/functionalist thing anyway.

Thanks for the plug! They are so much less shameless when they come from another...