European Jewry would still be exterminated, nothing would change there. The Nazis saw the Slavs and the Jews as undermenschen and they would proceed with their plans to exterminate the Jews in Europe and decimate the Slavs so they were reduced to being serfs.
The above comment shows an insufficient knowledge of historical fact.
As of the beginning of the war, there were no German plans to exterminate Jews or Slavs or any other ethnic group. While certain groups were identified for summary execution, these were always politically defined, eg members of anti-German Polish nationalist organisations, or members of Communist Parties etc.
Even at the commencement of the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the only Jews whose summary execution was mandated in orders issued to the German security forces were those in State and Party positions or in the Red Army.
Prior to the outbreak of war, the goal of the National Socialist German Government was to make Germany "Jew-free" by encouraging or compelling all Jews to emigrate, and to that end it entered into close collaboration with Zionist organisations, which had a complementary goal of encouragiung Jews to leave Europe and settle in Palestine.
After the outbreak of war, the German Government policy was extended to one of making all of Europe "Jew-free", and the collaboration with Zionist organisations continued, including the financing of illegal emigration to Palestine.
Toward the end of 1939, Eichmann, who was in charge of Jewish emigration, wrote two letters to the Soviet immigration authorities, asking them to allow the transport into the Soviet Union of all the Jewish population of the German-occupied part of Poland, under the agreement on exchange of populations that had been made as part of the German-Soviet Borders and Friendship Treaty of 28 September 1939. That shows that at that time the German Government had no intention of exterminating the Jews in its power, only of expelling them.
The Soviet Government declined Eichmann's request, on the grounds that it was obliged to accept only ethnic Belorussians and Ukrainians under the afore-mentioned agreement. That is why the Polish Jews could not be transferred to Soviet territory.
After the defeat of France, the German Government adopted the originally Polish idea of exiling all the Jews of Europe to Madagascar. That was a genuine plan, with both the German Foreign Office doing a lot of preparatory work on it. The only reason why it was not implemented was that the British Navy controlled the seas and shipping lanes, so as long as Britain remained in a state of war with Germany there was no conceivable way that four million European Jews could be shipped to Madagascar.
Accordingly, it is a logical conclusion that if Britain had made peace in 1940 there would have been no obstacle to the implementation of the Madagascar Plan. In fact, the German agencies working on the plan proposed that as part of a peace agreement between Germany and Britain, the latter should provide the shipping to transport the Jews to Madagascar, together with France.
Close analysis of the genesis of the physical destruction of the Jews under German control reveals that the crucial factor that brought it about was the German failure to defeat the Soviet Union, which frustrated the original plans for dealing with the large Jewish population of that country. Those original plans, as shown by German documents, provided for the concentration of the Soviet Jews in remote ruralk reservations, where they wouold be put to work in various branches of primary industry such as logging, pending their transfer out of Europe after the expected final German victory over the Soviet Union.
Those original plans could not be implemented due to the failure to defeat the Soviet Union, and mass killing was resorted to as a second-best solution.
If Britain had made peace in 1940, Germany would have had a much better chance of defeating the Soviet Union in 1941, since it could have concentrated its entire force against that country without having to divert some of it to sideshows in the Mediterranean area. Also, if Britain made peace, then it is entirely possible that there would have been no longer any obstacle to both France and Spain joining in the anti-Bolshevik "crusade".
Assuming that Germany defeated the Soviet Union, then there would have been nothing to prevent the implementation of various schemes to exile all the Jews from Europe. Some of the European Jews, those of Central and Western Europe, would have gone to Madagascar, while the East European Jews would have been transported across the Urals to Central Asia.
Since it is clear that the physical destruction of European Jewry resulted from the change in German fortunes from expected victory to impending defeat, then if that change had not occurred the physical destruction of the jews would not have occurred either.
3 Jews were sent to Auschwitz from the occupied British Channel Islands during the war.
They were citizens of Germany and Austria and hence subject to German law. Jewish Channel Islanders of British nationality were treated in the same way as other Channel Islanders, as enemy civilians under the protection of international law, and as such were not mistreated.
Britian might have been able to keep British Jews safe but could have been forced to send European refugee Jews back to Germany.
Why would Germany want them? The German aim was to get Jews out of Germany, not to let them back in.
Madagascer was never meant to be a happy place for transported Jews, it was to be a SS Fiefdom, where the Jews were simply serfs. They would work and die there for their SS masters.
Madagascar is not even a happy place for the Malagasies, most of whom live in the most abject poverty. Nevertheless, the population of Madagascar grew from 2.2 million in 1900 to 7.6 million in 1975, and today is estimated at close to 22 million. That sort of population growth shows that it is quite possible to live and thrive in Madagascar, albeit at a very low standard of living. There is no reason why Jews could not have lived and survived there.
Those few who would make it there alive, that is. I suspect that many if not most would perish on the way, being forced into ship bunks as overcrowded as their historical cattle trains. That and the harsh Atlantic weather, plus insufficient hygene and malnutrition would mean that chances for them to arrive alive would be slim to start with.
What hard evidence is there that conditions on board the ships would be of that nature?
The German Madagascar plan assumed that as part of the terms of peace with Britain, the latter country, together with France, would provide the shipping to transport the Jews to Madagascar. Accordingly, conditions on board the ships would be the responsibility of Britain and France.
I can't see how she'd be able or allowed to help the Soviets.
