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Did mass immigration cause world war 2?

If the Jewish peoples had moved, and been welcomed to, another part of the world other than Germany.

Would WW2 have still happened ?

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  • Feivel
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Absolutely. The powder keg was there and hitler had to light the fuse. If there were no Jews, there might have been a different outcome though. It took incredible resources to run those concentration camps (which didn't just hold Jews so they still would have been incarcerating Romani peoples, homosexuals, communists, JW's, the disabled, the mentally ill, blacks, those who were married to Jews and refused divorce (if given the choice and many were actually not given the choice) but they would have needed FAR fewer. Even when he was losing the war, he refused to take resources away from killing the Jews and send men or supplies to the front.

    WW2 would have happened. It was pretty well set up in Versailles and when Wall Street crashed it was inevitable.....Germany needed a morale boost and that was going to come about by waging war.

    Also....please tell me you are not a product of the American education system

    Source(s): I teach holocaust and Jewish studies
  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Yes. The "Jewish Question" was only a small part of Hitler's thinking, and Nazi thinking, in the run-up to WW2. The main thing was to spread Nazidom far and wide across Europe, and beyond, with Germany in charge of the lot.

  • 7 years ago

    I am at a loss why many find your question dumb. Yes, jews DID mass immigrate while fleeing hitler's brutal policies. But it was not the cause, it was the result of hitler's policies and pathetic attempts to rule the entire world, as was his ultimate goal. If countries such as the US HAD opened it's borders to all fleeing immigrants, it indeed would have had an impact on the lives of many, but the war would probably still have happened; hitler would have continued to try and kill anyone; he was a madman.

    Source(s): discussion with those who were there including my family AND the USA educational system
  • Bob
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Hitler and Mussolini were planning for war for at least 10 years before it started, and Japan became more expansionist when it saw that no one had the nerve to stand up to these two dictators.

    War was inevitable whether or not there were any Jewish people in Germany. The Jews were scapegoats and victims, not the cause of the war.

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    No these are the Reasons for WW2 in Europe

    https://www.google.com.au/?gws_rd=ssl#q=americans+...

    http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/randy/swas1.h...

    http://www.reformation.org/wall-st-hitler.html

    and the 840 Million US dollars Loaned to Hitler so he could contest the 1933 elections Money donated By Rich Americans Corporate US Wall st in the Dupont Warburg JP Morgan Hitler Fund

    No Hitler no WW2 in Europe and the USA would have remained in depression up to about 1952

  • tuffy
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Germany would still have occupied Europe, tried to capture the Suez Canal, and invaded Russia. Japan would have still invaded China and bombed Pearl Harbor. Immigration had nothing to do with causing WW II.

  • Marge
    Lv 5
    7 years ago

    There were two theaters of war in WWII--European and Japan in the Pacific. Re Japan, it was when the Japanese invaded Indonesia and the surrounding islands, for it's rubber, oil and hard wood assets. America POLITICALLY PROTESTED Japan's invasions and the Japanese Admirals (who seemed to have a lot of political power behind the Emperor), advocated that Japan attack Pearl Harbor to warn America to stop their protests. Only Admiral Yamamoto disagreed--saying, "NO! That would be like attacking a hornets' nest!" And how RIGHT HE WAS!

  • 7 years ago

    With or without Jews in the picture, Hitler had always planned a war in the east. From Mein Kampf to the rebuilding of the German military to the restructuring of the German economy, it was always the Nazi goal to expand into Poland and the USSR to create colonies and "Living Space" for a "Greater Germany" populated by "Aryans".

  • 7 years ago

    Persecution of Jews wasn't the primary cause of WWII in Europe. It was an outcome of it. The Nazis invaded other countries not to get at the Jews there but to get at the land. The motivation for German expansion was twofold. First, the Nazis wanted to unite all Germans under a single state. This was primarily responsible for their expansion prior to the outbreak of war. Things like annexing Austria or occupying the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia were motivated by a desire to bring all Germans together under one state. The other reason for expansion was to grab more land for Germany. Hitler and his cronies had a vision of a Greater German Reich, stretching throughout most of Central and Eastern Europe. They wanted land in places like Poland and Russia to create German settler colonies which would eventually displace the Slavic natives and form a vast German super state. Their invasion of Eastern Europe wasn't to get at the Jews. Rather, they wanted to exterminate the Jews in these regions in order to pave the way for German settlement of them.

  • Kevin7
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    It did not cause W.W.2.Jewish citizens of Germany have a right to exist in Germany

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