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That such ruses and “programs” suggest that Germany’s planned final solution was not originally murderous, as many historians still cling to takes a leap, or outright denial of the facts. According to these the Final Solution only “reluctantly” turned to annihilation when German military success resulted in too many Jews to deal with while fighting the war! And so Germany turned to mass murder as “population control.” This basically is the Functionalist, the “crooked road” theory of the Holocaust. From what is written above functionalism, beyond Hitler’s purpose to buy time to develop greater efficiency in technology and bureaucratic management, to psychologically prepare Germany and the world, fails as explanation.

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Whatever else, Hitler was a skilled politician. By allowing Jews to emigrate he forced the “democracies,” and particularly his loudest critic Franklin Roosevelt, to back up protest of German persecution by willingness to accept its victims. Hitler was, after all, just expanding on sterilization, endorsed by the US Supreme Court 1927 ruling explained by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes:

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“It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.”

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So it came as no surprise that America also would fulfill his expectation by not accepting Germany’s Unfit, the Jews seeking refuge from German persecution. And that refusal would further legitimize Germany’s own antisemitic policies.

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Foundations of Holocaust: The Final Solution, the Decision