==Your post on "extermination"== 

 Deborah, I took a look at your post on this topic on the RD, as you asked.  Your post is clear and very plausible.  I am not really an expert on the Holocaust, so I can't comment on whether Nazi leaders' strategic thinking was as you say, but based on what I do know, it makes sense. (My knowledge of this topic, by the way, comes mainly from having done background research on the topic in order to edit all of Encyclopaedia Britannica's articles on Holocaust-related topics, though I also have a general interest in German history.)  Keep up the good work!