U.S. and Soviet Inheritance of Nazi Goals

1.  The main target of the Nazis, and of Hitler's Mein Kampf, was two-fold: the destruction of Jewish autonomy in Europe, and the defeat of Communism in Europe.  They saw these two as combined, in the huge Jewish presence in Poland and Eastern Europe, and in Soviet Communism in Eastern Europe.  The Soviet Union had been promoting and aiding Yiddish language autonomy for Jews, meaning that Yiddish was regarded as an official language in many areas in Eastern Europe.  It was for a time official in the Ukraine, and the Soviet Union had set up a Jewish Autonomous region in the Soviet Far East.  One of the major centers of Yiddish was Poland, which is the country Germany attacked to begin World War II.  Yiddish is essentially a dialect of German, written with Hebrew letters.  Under Soviet support, Jews were publishing in Yiddish, creating educational materials in Yiddish, and having schools and colleges in Yiddish.  Yiddish was on its way to becoming an official European language - uniquely the language of the European Jews.  And all this was happening and flourishing, under Soviet/Communist auspices. The Nazis perceived this Jewish/Yiddish/Communist phenomenon as a primary threat.

2.  After the war, the United States inherited one of the Nazis' two main goals: the anti-Communist goal.  The second of the Nazis' two main goals was inherited by the Soviet Union: the anti-Jewish autonomy goal.  In contrast to the Nazi goals, however, the U. S. and the Soviet Union both took up an anti-Nazi goal at the same time.  So, the U. S. became the great supporter of Jewish Autonomy - especially in Israel.  And the Soviet Union became the great supporter of Communism, which manifested primarily in its support of the People's Republic of China.  Thus the anti-Communist world, led by the U. S., was instrumental in supporting the Jewish autonomous State of Israel, founded in 1948, just after the end of World War II. And the Communist world, lead by the Soviet Union, was instrumental in supporting the communist People's Republic of China, founded in 1949.  While the Nazi goals of eliminating Communism and Jewish/Yiddish Autonomy in Europe were essentially successful, the two re-flourished within two countries more or less stable and accepted within the international community: the Jewish autonomous State of Israel, and the Chinese communist People's Republic of China.