Did the Holocaust undermine the Nazi war effort?

Holocaust versus Wehrmacht. How Hitler's "Final Solution" Undermined the German War Effort. Yaron Pasher. In 1941, as Nazi Germany began its disastrous campaign against the Soviet Union, Hitlers other campaign, to exterminate European Jewry, was also commencing in earnest. read more

The Nazis spent valuable resources building and staffing death camps, some or all of these could have been better spent on the war effort. Diverting trains. Logistics, i.e., getting men, equipment and supplies to the front, especially the Russian front depended on trains in WWII. read more

Yaron Pasher is a young Israeli historian who studied under Weinberg. In this book he sets out to explore how the implementation of the Holocaust fatally undermined the German war effort between 1941 and the final collapse in May 1945. read more

One of the great paradoxes of the Second World War is that while German troops on the Eastern Front were starving and freezing to death for lack of supplies, the rail transport of Jews to the death camps proceeded with uninterrupted Teutonic efficiency. read more