>>if the Nazis had not been in such a hurry to achieve their "Final Solution", with all it concomitant immense use of manpower resources, railway systems given over Europe-wide, largely to this sole purpose, and so forth; but had instead used all these resources for their war effort instead of frittering them away with such urgency on this less urgent project (i.e., from any objective pov, less urgent than actually winning the war, surely?)<<<

MtheGM, This thread started with a discussion of proportion.   I just don't believe that it would have made any difference. If Hitler had sent every single soldier used to that purpose to the Eastern front, Idon't think that he would not have won or shorted a single battle or siege. He sent his best there and his best were worn down by Russian winters and wave upon wave of fresh Russian bodies and Allied material.

Its like saying that the Titanic might have survived if it only had one more coat of paint.