How many soldiers did anti-Semitism cost Third Reich?

How many soldiers did anti-Semitism cost the Third Reich? How many potential soldiers were not only killed in death camps, except were even incarcerated in death camps to begin with combined with the soldiers required to round them up and guard them?

Also, is it possible that anti-Semitism may have cost them valuable scientists that might have helped with their rocket, nuclear bomb, and overall war effort?

Did the money they stole from the Jews in the Holocaust benefit their war effort more than enough to offset any of these potential costs from a purely pragmatic viewpoint?

Human capital presents limitless possibilities. It was a net loss for Germany and a total loss for the world.

If it weren't for anti-Semitism, Germany never would have been in a position to instigate WWII, and Hitler never would have risen to power there.

EDIT: As to your second question, the Reich lost EINSTEIN to the Allies, which guaranteed they wouldn't win the atomic race, and Wehrner Von Braun after the war, which guaranteed the Americans would win the Space Race. So yeah, kinda set them back a bit.

Jews in Prewar Germany

According to the census of June 1933, the Jewish population of Germany consisted of about 500,000 people. Jews represented less than one percent of the total German population of about 67 million people. Unlike ordinary census-taking methods, the Nazi racist criteria codified in the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 and subsequent ordinances identified Jews according to the religion practiced by an individual's grandparents. Consequently, the Nazis classified as Jews thousands of people who had converted from Judaism to another religion, among them even Roman Catholic priests and nuns and Protestant ministers whose grandparents were Jewish.
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The number of soldiers out of the total population, guessing maybe 1/7 ?

One should also include Austria , at least, for the number of soldiers.

RandomPoster71 said:

How many soldiers did anti-Semitism cost the Third Reich? How many potential soldiers were not only killed in death camps, except were even incarcerated in death camps to begin with combined with the soldiers required to round them up and guard them?

Also, is it possible that anti-Semitism may have cost them valuable scientists that might have helped with their rocket, nuclear bomb, and overall war effort?

Did the money they stole from the Jews in the Holocaust benefit their war effort more than enough to offset any of these potential costs from a purely pragmatic viewpoint?

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Historian Brian Rigg estimates that 150,000 Jews served in Germany's military in his book "Hitler's Jewish Soldiers" just as historian Veronica Clark contends that about 2 million non German, non Europeans served vigorously in the armed forces of the Third Reich(2).
Except for the loss of valuable Jewish scientists, I think it's impossible to estimate the cost of the 3rd Reich's repulsive anti Semitism.



(1) "Hitler's Jewish Soldiers"
https://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Jewish-Soldiers-Descent-Military/dp/0700613587
EXCERPT "Contrary to conventional views, Rigg reveals that a startlingly large number of German military men were classified by the Nazis as Jews or "partial-Jews" (Mischlinge), in the wake of racial laws first enacted in the mid-1930s. Rigg demonstrates that the actual number was much higher than previously thought-perhaps as many as 150,000 men, including decorated veterans and high-ranking officers, even generals and admirals."CONTINUED


(2) "Adolf Hitler’s Armed Forces: A Triumph for Diversity?"
Veronica Clark
https://www.inconvenienthistory.com/1/3/3102
EXCERPT "At least two million non-German foreigners and ethnic minorities served in Hitler’s armed forces at one point or another. Without foreign and non-German help, the Germans never would have had their Western defenses prepared in time for the Allied invasion. Let us think about two things here. Hitler’s Wehrmacht-Waffen SS combination was the most culturally, ethnically, and religiously diverse military force in Western history."CONTINUED

Kobie said:

If it weren't for anti-Semitism, Germany never would have been in a position to instigate WWII, and Hitler never would have risen to power there.

EDIT: As to your second question, the Reich lost EINSTEIN to the Allies, which guaranteed they wouldn't win the atomic race, and Wehrner Von Braun after the war, which guaranteed the Americans would win the Space Race. So yeah, kinda set them back a bit.

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Actually, Einstein had almost nothing to do with the creation of the Atomic Bomb. All he did was endorse a letter written by Leó Szilárd and Eugene Wigner before it was sent on to President Roosevelt. He was a pure theoretician, and had nothing to do with the actual design and construction of the atomic bomb.

Leo Szliard was Hungarian, as was Wigner. Eugene had immigrated to the US to teach at Princeton years before Hitler rose to power, Szilard immigrated shortly afterwards. Enrico Fermi was the man responsible for separating the various isotopes of Uranium, and he was from Italy.

And one thing all 3 of these men had in common was their distaste for totalitarianism. Both Szilard and Wigner had fled Hungary for Germany as their homeland became a Soviet state, then left Germany when the saw it going the same way. The same with Fermi leaving Italy.

RandomPoster71 said:

How many soldiers did anti-Semitism cost the Third Reich? How many potential soldiers were not only killed in death camps, except were even incarcerated in death camps to begin with combined with the soldiers required to round them up and guard them?

Also, is it possible that anti-Semitism may have cost them valuable scientists that might have helped with their rocket, nuclear bomb, and overall war effort?

Did the money they stole from the Jews in the Holocaust benefit their war effort more than enough to offset any of these potential costs from a purely pragmatic viewpoint?

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It cost Germany the war.

apdst said:

It cost Germany the war.

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The result was in question until Hitler disregarded his military high command and proceeded to fight a ‘two front war.’
When Hitler disregarded Napoleon’s folly in regard to invading the ‘Rodina’ too close to winter or at all. Werner von Braun helped to extend the war with his rocket science.