Dayton3
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I am probably the only one on this board who knows about the Evian Conference of 1938.Otherwise when characters like Hitler are forgotten or marginalized to the point they never existed
I don't see any indications that Herr Hitler is forgotten or marginalized. In fact, he's probably more widely known today as he was in the early '30s.
What is important to remember is, that Hitler didn't do any of the things he did on his own. He was merely a megaphone for the vile ideology of his times.
If he wasn't a reflection his own society, people wouldn't have followed him as devoutly as they did. Even when he was invading the various countries of Europe, you could still find many persons in the invaded countries and around the world who felt Hitler and his henchmen were right and proper in their ideology.
You can even find those people today.
What do you make of it?
Évian Conference - Wikipedia
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Initially, Nazis policies towards Jews was one of deportation. But, when it became obvious that no country would take them the Germans had to come up with other means to remove the Jews from their society.
The Evian Conference, and the abysmal apathy the world showed towards the treatment of Jews in Germany emboldened Hitler and led directly the the Wannsee Conference in 1942, where The SS took control of "the Jewish Question" and announced plans of a "Final Solution" to the Jews of Europe (and even America).
Actually Madagascar, Spain, Uruguay, and a dozen other countries offered to take all the Jews.
The problem was the Jews themselves, who were insisting on Palestine or the US only.
Spain wouldn't have been a bad idea. In retrospect. But Franco was an ally of Hitler so that might've been seen as a dangerous proposition at that time.
Madagascar or Uruguay? Bad ideas probably.