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Originally Posted by PzJgr
What if Hitler rallied an anti-communist movement instead of antisemitism. Would he have succeeded in conquering the USSR and expanding his empire eastward which was his original intent? Would other countries rally around Germany? I know the Spanish volunteers of the Blue Division did just that. Who else would have joined?
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What kind of a what-if is this? Everyone who was not a communist in those higly poolarised days was an anti-communist. Rome called communism the Anti-Christ and they meant it!
So it was not difficult to Hitler to speak of a general crusade against communism, which is exactly how he mobilised a lot of foreign troops to go along the Wehrmacht and SS against Russia, such as the Spanish Blue Division, the Légion des Volontaires Français Contre le Communisme (Legion of French Volunteers Against Communism), later the Charlemagne SS Division, the SS-Viking division, the Dutch, the Balts, etc., etc.
Not a single mention of anti-semitism here. Anti-semitism was an internal German affair until later when Germany was taking over on other countries and started demanding Jews to be arrested and deported, it was not a movement.