You gotta be careful here, though, because if things had been different... yeah, they would have been different. Whichever way we slice it, organized extermination was never convenient, and certainly not on the enormous scale which occurred. The Nazis didn't want to sterilize them all, or send them somewhere else. At the end of the day, any living jew was an abomination and affront to the natural order. It took years of planning, construction, and logistics to develop their process and refine it. Then, they took it absolutely as far as possible when it would have helped their chances of winning the war to move those resources into other areas. I sat through a lecture on this very thing a couple years ago, and it was really fascinating. I'm not a WW2 guy, but the many "whys" surrounding the Final Solution are pretty interesting. The speaker gave a very convincing breakdown of how the Nazis use of escalating extermination wasn't circumstantial, and turns into one of the features we can use to draw distinction between them and other similar forms of government. I wish I had that shit recorded. the fact that they "waited" is in and of itself a pretty big red flag, speaking broadly, when you think about how much time and effort was going into systematically killing all these people while the real threat was driving across Europe.
