The brain drain and the atom bomb contribute, but the issue of anti-Semitism goes beyond the implements used to carry it out. It guided German foreign and military policy. The motivation for invading the USSR and subsequent German policy there (i.e. initially slaughtering the anti-Stalinist Slavs instead of recruiting them) are all outcrops of anti-Semitism: in Hitler's mind Communism and Judaism were one and the same. In that specific case he invaded the Soviet Union before he'd defeated England - going against a critical element of German military strategy since Von Schlieffen (if I'm not mistaken) and opening a two front war. Such was his itch to destroy his ideological enemy.
But to connect a point from the original questions: the irony of the flexibility in Nazi ideology is that while Hitler saw Communism as a sworn enemy, many members of his party were ex-Communists. As early as 1946 a former member of his government wrote a book in which he coined the phrase "beefstake Nazis" - brown on the outside, red on the inside.
But to connect a point from the original questions: the irony of the flexibility in Nazi ideology is that while Hitler saw Communism as a sworn enemy, many members of his party were ex-Communists. As early as 1946 a former member of his government wrote a book in which he coined the phrase "beefstake Nazis" - brown on the outside, red on the inside.
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