How much did the Holocaust cost the German state? Did the Nazis gain more from plundering Jewish assets than expending state resources from exterminating them?

by antiquated_bookworm

Sorry for the grim question but it's something that I am curious of. However, I can't find any online resources that touches on this specific topic. What the search results yield to me is how much the Nazis plundered from Jewish assets, but nothing on how much the genocide cost the German state. I'm curious about this because intuitively, it would be a huge waste of resources to be persecuting millions of people. Aside from the loss of talent (Jewish scientists fled Germany along with their know-how on creating the atom bomb), I imagine that setting up death camps would also take up valuable manpower that could have instead been sent to the frontline, along with the finances that could have instead been used somewhere else.

Gankom

There's always more that can be said, but you might appreciate this older answer from /u/commiespaceinvader on How much did the Holocaust cost Germany?