they were an ez scapegoat to blame Germany's problems on

Because he was trying to make his lebensraum or his living space. As Wiki explains: "It was one of the major political ideas of Adolf Hitler, and an important component of Nazi ideology. It served as the motivation for the expansionist policies of Nazi Germany, aiming to provide extra space for the growth of the German population, for a Greater Germany. In Hitler's book Mein Kampf, he detailed his belief that the German people needed Lebensraum ("living space", i.e. land and raw materials), and that it should be found in the East. It was the stated policy of the Nazis to kill, deport, or enslave the Polish, Russian and other Slavic populations, whom they considered inferior, and to repopulate the land with Germanic peoples. The entire urban population was to be exterminated by starvation, thus creating an agricultural surplus to feed Germany and allowing their replacement by a German upper class." Most people were very willing to get rid of the Jews because before Hitler, they were making the money. Not only were they making money, they had killed Jesus Christ is what was commonly thought. There was already antisemitism in Europe. In France, there were trials called the Dreyfus Affairs which falsely accused a Jew of treason. So many people believed that the Jew was guilty and there was a lot of propaganda showing Jews poorly. It brought out the true antisemitism in everyone. Because of all this, Hitler was able to kill Jews. He hated them because the mass hated them. He hated them because he needed someone to blame. He blamed the communists, then he blamed the Slavs, and then he blamed the Jews.

-ignorance -because he could -something other reason i cant think of -a few other reasons i wont thinkofcuz i dont know

There are many reasons why he did. Some of them are to do with the background he came from and the history of Europe. eg Hitler came from Austria. Europe had had a bad attitude to Jews from the Middle Ages onwards. They were pushed into ghettos and/or expelled from most countries several times, ostensibly because of the relationship of Judaism to Christianity, but really for economic reasons (if the King of a country borrowed money from Jewish financiers to enable him to fight a war, it was convenient to push the Jews out of his country later, to avoid paying the bill) Hitler blamed the Jews for Germany's economic woes. It suited him to do so, as he needed a scapegoat to blame, in order to reunite Germany. However, as Arisztid pointed out, the Jews were not the only group Hitler picked on. In his warped world view, Jews were inferior people, but so were Romany (Gypsies), Seventh Day Adventists, the handicapped and anyone who stood up against him and defended the groups above.

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Because he hated the Zionist Movement, the Protocols of Elders of Zion, and the Babilonian Talmud. My 2 cents. http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/antisemitism/holocaust/gedalyaliebermann.cfm

because there where the easy target

All throughout History,MANY countries hated the jews,and expelled them!!!!!! Why? Because their own Talmud teaches Jews are superior to all other races,and that it's ok to rob, steal,rape,and kill any non jew,(including Christians!) But why would MANY countries actually expel ALL of them???? Because there were MANY documented cases of some Jews killing young Christian children,(all throughout history!!),as early as 900 AD, and as late as the 20th Century!! HUNDREDS of cases!!! These heinous crimes would almost always occur just before Passover,(or our Easter time!) These Jews were accused of trapping and torturing little Christian children under (some under 7 yrs. old!),by cutting them,blood letting them,and even crucifying them similar to Christ!!! The bodies would have marks on the hands and feet,and even piercings in the side mimicking Christ's death! Also,The victim's body was usually drained dry of all it's blood!! Why? Jews have always considered blood the "seat of the soul",hence why they slice a cow by the throat,and drain ALL of it's blood! They also are notorious for smearing lambs blood etc.,and believe partaking in the blood of their enemies would free there homeland,Palestine..(Some would actually drink the blood of their children victims in wine,or mix it in their unleavened bread!) However,The Jews religion forbid burying theses little "Gentile Pigs", so they usually discarded them in a dump,(but for this reason the bodies were always discovered!) Then the crimes were often solved by witnesses,or the way the killings took place.If you don't believe me,type in "Jewish Ritual Murder" into any search engine! SEVERAL cases of dead children with the same brutal signs of torture show up!Even Jesus himself said their Jewish forefathers were murderers,and didn't want their "Blood Sacifices! The Jews themselves said of Jesus's death "Let his blood be on our heads and that of our children!" Getting back to Hitler, he HATED Jews because they comprised most of Communiist Russia,i.e., the Bolsheviks!!! Hitler always mentioned the Bolshevik rebels when talking about Jews,(Lenin and Trotsky were both Jews!) It was them who killed Nicholas the **Christian** CZAR and his whole family!!! It was also the Bolsheviks Jews in Russia who murdered 25 million Christians in Communist Russia! They were often tortured in large dark chambers, with blood trenches,etc.! They were sometimes nailed to a ceiling and died of exhaustion,or their eyeballs stabbed out,dismembered,etc.! When asked to denounce Christianity,if a Christian women said no,a fellow Bolshevik soldier would throw her baby in the air,and another Russian soldier would catch it with his rifle bayonet! The jews talk how evil Hitler was,but the Red Russian Revolution made the Holocaust look like a picnic!!! Lastly, Charles Lindbergh's baby was coincidentally killed around March,the same time just before Passover! The Jewish press blamed it on a poor German fellow who was electrocuted,but actually it was another case of Jews killing a Christian baby!! You see,the Jews wanted to start the Federal Reserve Bank system,and Lindbergh's father was against them!! Can you say the jews sent the Lindbergh's a message?? Also,the Jews would LOVE for us non Jews to kill each other in wars,like the one in Baghdad, and in Afganhistan! During 911,the Jewish owner of the Twin Towers collected 5 BILLION dollars in insurance money,because the buildings were losing money! Also, Jews were warned that day not to show up for work!!! David (Ashamed of my Jewish first name!)

He was a psychotic self-hating part-Jew himself (he had a Jewish grandparent or great-grandparent, I'm not sure which), and blamed the Jews for Germany's economic crisis in the aftermath of WWI...

He did not target just the Jews. The Gypsies (Roma/Sinti) were part of the Final Solution as well. And many others groups were in the camps. People that single out the Jews with regards to the Holocaust need to educate themselves before they speak. Making it an exclusively Jewish happening denies so many others. I find that ignorant.

He believed in Eugenics. You can thank Charles Darwin.

He was extremely deluded. Thinking the Jew's were to blame for the awful state of the economy in Germany.

He was trying 2 create a Utopian society in a psychotic way. He thought if he got rid of Jewish people he could have a "pure" society.

he did that stuff because his mom was jew and she worked for jews and those jew treated her so bad and then she was maried to a german guy and then they had hitler then the mom told hitler what the jews did to his mom and he had a problem with that so he starded killing the jews and tortured them because they tortured his mom so then the death:men- he had them hang by there penis and balls because so then they dont have kids anymore and put them in in camps that where big so he lit them on fire. women- he had a stick and shufd it up there private/<a href="http://www.livestrong.com/article/12495-the-vagina/" title="vagina" style="", class="stronglinks" target="_blank" />vagina</a> and throughh the mouth and let it on fire. kids/family if he didnt want to do that on them then he put the whole family in the camp and let it on fire. and if yur jewish i hope i didnt afende yu and yur great great great great grandama or grandpa they were in that situation and i feel bad for them it hurts me more than it hurts them

hatred + bigotry

Because he was a very very bad man.

In short, he blamed the Jews for the bad economy and all of the social ills of Germany.

Because of the perverse human need to have an enemy.

because they are gods chosen people. it goes alot deeper than hitler . ps dr me if you want just because i said god

Officially he did it as he blamed the Jews for the 'Stab in the Back' or Germanys capitulation at the end of WW1. Additionally he believed there was a world wide Jewish conspiracy which was trying to destroy the Germanic people of the world, economically, socially, & spiritually. On a personal level no-one really knows why he hated them so much. He personally saved the Austrian Jewish doctor who had tried in vain to save his mothers life. & he worked alongside & for Jewish art merchants in Venice when he was trying to get into the Vienna School of Art. There is no evidence that before WW1 he was anti-Semitic in any way.

He was an ego driven dysfunctional son of a bitch who knew how to sway people with passion and words.

His mother was Jewish - need I say more? That and he was broken in the head.

He in fact was a Rabbi. He had a bad experience with some Matzo Ball soup. He was given the smallest matzoball and never forgave the Deli owner. His descndnats now support him by buying Mecedes Benz products, the pooorer ones alas have to buy Volkwagons. He was a maniacle dictator. He took the property from the rich and killed all witnesses. He was getting away with it for years.

Because Hitler was full of the devil and the devil Hates jews because The Bible says they are God's chosen people.

I believe that the Holocaust happened to restore the kingdom of Israel.

maybe he believed that all jewish will go to hell, reason why he made it in advance. .

aNSWER #7 pretty much hits the nail on the head. Keep in mind too that the Jews weren't the only ones persecuted by Hitler and the Nazis. There were millions of Poles, Russians, Gypsys', disabled people and pretty much those whom posed a challenge to the Nazis regime and ideals.(Aryan Brotherhood.) Another lesser known fact is that Stalin and the Communist regimes also murdered millions. Even before Hitler started his rampage. In fact the Russians never closed down the concentration camps "liberated" in thier territories. They continued to use them for years after the war ended. And the world just turned a blind eye to it all.

Because he thought that all Jews were a part of a conspiracy to rule the world. He saw from the old testament how the Jews created a God and called themselves the chosen people of that God, creating for themselves an undeserved higher place than all other people. He saw that their religion was full of racism and he fell victim to just that, but on a larger scale. He saw them as a threat to non Jewish people, specifically "Arian" people. He created lies and propaganda to convince the German people that they needed to be done away with. He was mislead. I think he should have used education instead of using violence. Teaching people that religion is harmful and silly is one thing, but killing whole races of people who may or may not be a part of those religions is way out of hand. There is nothing wrong with being Jewish by birth, but there is something wrong with believing that you are the chosen and favored race of a God, especially one that your ancestors created.

Conviction. He THOUGHT he was right.

not sure why

He hated the ethnicity because they were better looking than him.

cause he was evil and hated them for some reason

When people ask this question, they don't really want to know the truth. They just want to justify their learned beliefs that Hitler was the epitome of evil. ¶ The first thing that needs to be understood is that the war was never about the Jews. It was the establishment of modern-day Zionism in 1895, the end of WW1, and the unfair terms of the Versailles Treaty that set the stage for a second international war. ¶ Everyone is familiar with the "stab-in-the-back" claim that Hitler used as the reason Germany lost the first war. That claim was "debunked" as false to keep it from being questioned. But what was "debunked" wasn't exactly the facts that really happened. ¶ Modern-day Zionism is not the same "Zionism" that the Bible refers to. Zionism today was founded as a political movement in 1895. Many of its members were originally German but relocated to America to establish their "base camp" as it were. ¶ These Zionists spent around 1/3 of the 20th century running media campaigns to raise money and support for Jews that were being persecuted, mainly in Eastern Europe and Russia. In nearly every media article, they used the terms "6,000,000" and "threatened with extermination". Being fed a steady diet of this for more than 30 years and with nothing else to compare it with, it didn't take very much effort for it to be accepted as fact. ¶ It wasn't made up in response to Hitler's rise to power in 1933 since no one knew who Hitler was in the early years. But when the Zionists declared war on Germany (headline, Daily Express [London], March 24, 1933: "Judea Declares War On Germany") and accused of exterminating Jews (Aug 6, 1944), the world had already been "conditioned" to believe it. All they needed was a name and a face to attach to it, and Hitler became the target. ¶ Getting back to the stab-in-the-back myth, the reason Russia dropped out of WW1 was that the Zionists helped fund the Bolshevik Revolution which enabled Russia to drop out of the war. This freed the German soldiers who moved west to increase pressure on Britain and force them into a deal: with their backs against the wall and certain defeat staring at them, they (Zionists) could bring the United States into the war in exchange for Palestine once Britain won. This agreement was documented as the Balfour Declaration. Since the deal was manipulated by the Zionists (who were former Germans), the Zionists committed treason against Germany (their homeland), making the stab-in-the-back claims true. ¶ After WW1, Germany was forced to take the blame for a war it didn't start. In addition, the Zionists were in attendance at the Palace of Versailles, acting as advisers. This was the reason the terms against Germany were so harsh. With the terms of the Versailles Treaty devastating every sphere of Germany, the country was wide open with political groups of every kind - the main influences, however, were Communism and Western Democracy, each afraid that Germany would accept their political influence. But it was Zionism that controlled the German political, cultural, and economic landscape. It was the Weimar Republic that bankrupted Germany in the 1920s. It was also Zionism that destroyed the German moral landscape - throughout the 1920s, Berlin was known as "the Sex Capital of Europe". Zionists ("Jews" as they were always referred to) were taking advantage of the German persecution by buying real estate for pennies on the dollar. Germans spent 14 years with unemployment at around 30% (the worse ever in the history of any nation). They were starving and homeless - men were committing suicide because they couldn't support their families.¶ The History books paint a condemning picture of how Hitler was such a smooth talker and convinced his people to hate the Jews - but this is not true. It was 14 years of oppression under the thumbs of the Zionist Weimar Republic that made their minds up for them. Germans willingly followed Hitler for several reasons - the main ones being that he turned the German economy around, making Germany a prosperous country again in only 6 years. ¶ Hitler had to take Germany back - it was the only way he could restore it, and it had to be under his terms. It was because he took the Jews' power away from them that the Zionists declared war on Germany. ¶ Everyone has been conditioned to feel sorry for the Jews. To some degree, I concur - but only if there is a reason. But before you start feeling sorry for someone, find out who they are, first. What we've been talking about here is Political Zionism, not religious/cultural Judaism. There is a big difference between the two groups. ¶ Zionism claims to advocate for the Jews, but only when it's convenient to do so. At around the time Judea declared war on Germany, a group of German Jewish Veterans wrote to the US Embassy and told them, "We became aware of the propaganda in your country about alleged cruelties against the Jews in Germany. Mistreatments and excesses have indeed occurred, and we are far from glossing these over. But we also feel that now is the time to move away from the irresponsible agitation on the part of so-called Jewish intellectuals living abroad. These men, most of whom never considered themselves German nationals, but pretended to be champions for those of their own faith, abandoned them at a critical time and fled the country. They lost, therefore, the right to speak out on German-Jewish affairs. The accusations which they are hurling from their safe hiding places are injurious to Germany and German-Jews; their reports are vastly exaggerated." ¶ THIS is the difference between political Zionism and Judaism. This is how I can say that I support the Jews but not the Zionists that threw the Jews under the bus. ¶ Hitler didn't really "target the Jews" - not in terms of the "Holocaust". The "Final Solution was not any kind of plan to exterminate Jews or anyone else. Those who believe so have never read it (it's officially called the "Wannsee Protocol"). The "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" was a continuance of the Havaara Agreement (the "Solution to the Jewish Question") of 1933. It was Hitler's plan to relocate the Jews out of Germany and other countries under German influence. Both plans were designed to solve the "Solution to the Jewish Question", which is why both had similar names. You can't have a "final" anything without first having an initial something. This, in itself, should raise some kind of flag in people's heads. ¶ Another point to consider is the newspaper article found through the following link: https://tinyurl.com/2p8p22tu ¶ Note the date on the article: January 8, 1945. How was it possible that the author of this story in the prestigious New York Times knew that 6,000,000 Jews were dead when the Soviets wouldn't liberate Auschwitz until January 27, 1945 - almost 2 weeks later? ¶ This is where we have to re-examine the "6,000,000 Jews" and "extermination" claims that were being embedded into the minds of everyone exposed to the media since 1900. It has become a theme park that still operates to this day. ¶ People call people like me "Holocaust deniers". But the sad truth is, the Holocaust denies itself. I'm just one of the few who aren't afraid to point out the holes. Laws don't need to be passed to hide the truth, and the truth fears no investigation. "To determine the true rulers of any society, all you must do is ask yourself this question: 'Who is it that I'm not allowed to criticize?' " - Kevin Alfred Strom

Besides Jews, many other groups were targeted for destruction. They included the handicapped, mentally ill, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals and political dissidents. The Holocaust is the name given to the systematic murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime.

European hatred and animosity against Jews was centuries old by the time Hitler came along. He targeted them because they were an easy target for his hatred, IMHO. 12/27/22