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He felt victimized by the Jews. he blamed a Jewish doctor for his mother's death, he blamed a Jewish professor for rejecting his artwork when he applied to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and he blamed them for the German loss of World War 1.

Hitler blaimed the Jews for Germany's economic problems. Many German Jews were prosperous. He was hungry for power and seized the opportunity when Germany had so many troubles. Hitler was interested in art. He had a Jewish art teacher who trashed his work and added to his hatred.

because he had fought in world war 1 and when the Germans had lost he decided to become ruler of Germany and he sent out troops to bomb England basicly to get revenge...

then he caused world war 2 by doing that crazy stuff.

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Some think that Hitler started the Holocaust because the doctor that was in charge of his mother's health messed up, killing his mother who he was close to. This is completely incorrect. Hitler was actually very appreciative of Dr. Eduard Bloch (the Jewish doctor who treated Klara Hitler at the end of her life), and after Hitler took control of Germany and Austria, he gave Dr. Bloch a special honor, allowing him to emigrate to the United States unharmed in 1940. Dr. Bloch lived in New York City until his death just after Germany surrendered in 1945.

The bombing of England was called the Blitz of London.

An interesting side note. Because Hitler has served in World War 1 and saw the bravery of the Canadians(Oh ya, We just don't have good beer) he told the German bomber and fighter planes not to hit the Vimy Ridge Memorial. Because the memorial was white and could be seen easily at night the Allies used the memorial as a point of reference to know how close they were to were the Germans were hiding out. I just thought this was relevant because of the reference to Hitler serving in World War 1.

The hatred of the Jewswere not just thought of by Hitler but by many! the whole reason of how and why he got into power is very complicated and lasted a period from 1923-1933 then 1933-1939 in simple terms, after the war he was sent by the intelligence corps to mointor a right wing group D.A.P the German workers party.( which later became NSDAP nationlsozialistische deutsche arbeitet partei or more commonly NAZI party. He made a few speeches and ended up getting selected as leader, he led "prutsch's" attacks on Parliament. He was imprisoned in the early 20's where he wrote his first volumes of mein kampf. The party grew stronger and stronger until Jan 30th 1933 where he was elected (all by the book) to be chancellor. He started building the German forces, and implementing his ideas, boycotting Jewish shops business' etc until 1939 when he invaded Poland.

Obviously this is a very very brief list of events and indeed, is very complicated.

Hitler grew up in Austria, and worked with a bunch of Jews, this led him to believe that they were inferior. He might have thought that he was helping people. Maybe he just wanted power. +++++

TO answer a couple of points by Prioktan: 4) Hitler's bizarre racial attitudes were by no means unusual then. The pseudo-science to which Prioktan refers, was "Eugenics", a theory that it would be possible to breed humans selectively to produce people of "ideal" characteristics. Another contributor to 'Answers' has said that the alleged reliance by the Nazis on physical appearance was not really so - Hitler was not very worried by looks but saw the Jews as a separate race, and an inferior one at that, the 'untermenschen' along with Romanies, coloureds and those considered "defectives": homosexuals and the mentally ill. The war against Hitler, and what it uncovered about the Nazi regime, thankfully exposed and destroyed eugenics as the revolting nonsense it was. Yet it had been an attractive concept for many who would not have dreamt of killing those coming up to standard, and may explain the Swiss anti-gypsy campaign in the 1940s-50s. The Swiss did not kill anyone, but kidnapped Romany children and farmed them out under new, non-gypsy identities to State-approved couples, leaving their elders simply to die out naturally. Same idea - just less cruel in carrying out. 5) Actually, although some anti-Semitism was common throughout many Western nations in the mid-20C, the USA and UK took in very many Jews and others fleeing from the Nazis, before the outbreak of war and even, when possible, during the War. Britain already had a good many Jews and by and large, regarded them amicably.

It's chilling but worth comparing the Nazi and its contemporary USSR regimes, and later tyrannies. I would put ISIS alongside the Nazis and possibly Stalin's rule; groups like Bokul Harun with the Khmer Rouge, for example. Whatever their pronounced theory, self-justification and abilities or not as national administrators, they all share the same trait: a leader or cabal having nothing but amorality, selfishness, cruelty and lust for power.

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Well, what I have been taught is that Hitler did this because the Jewish people came into Germany (of which he was president) and tried to run the country for him via religion. Adolf Hitler deported the Jews from Germany into France and Belgium, and they sent them back to Germany.

Hitler then gave them the option of either leaving his country and let him run it like he was, or suffer the consequences which no-one thought it would be so bad.

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Hitler's purpose was to create a perfect race by removing all "imperfections" e.g. any people who did not display Aryan qualities.

And the people he targeted were considered a drain on society

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Many historians believe that Adolf Hitler's predisposition to the use of violence and coercion to rule stemmed from his childhood. His lack of social skills was documented and his father, Alois Hitler, used to used violence on him.

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Read about his experiences as a homeless derelict and a failed, frustrated art student who finally became somebody when he joined the army, and then read about what it was like for him as a soldier in World War I. None of this really can explain what made him into a monster, but there are clues about where he got his attitudes, his ideas, and his passion.

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He didnt "have" Holocaust. He started what is known as The Holocaust where he captured many Jewish people and sent them to concentration camps. He claimed that Jews were the cause of the Germany's problems. Many if not most of the Jewish population of Germany and Poland died in these camps.

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While in his quest to setup a Christian Fundamentalist Church, Hitler believed that 'God's Work'. Hitler viewed Jesus as someone who opposed Judaism and fought again this. Hitler thought he was continuing Jesus's fight against the Jewish people in the name of his Christian 'god'.

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This question implicitly has two parts. The first is a question as to the rationales that Hitler believed in to justify Anti-Semitic beliefs and the second is a question as to why Hitler felt the need to do the particular acts to the Jews as a way to solve these Anti-Semitic concerns.

The Reasons for Anti-Semitism in Germany during that period are numerous, but some of the more important reasons were the following:

1) Decay of the German State: During the 1800s, Jews began to become more integrated in German National Life. They served in its government, its military divisions, and its industry. As was typical of Western Europe, the Jews had more of a hand in the higher echelons of government than their population percentage would account for. The Nazis saw this increasing Jewish percentage in the government as a slow takeover of German policy and a corruption of the German people. They contrasted the great victories under Bismarck with the depressing failure of World War I and noted how a much larger percentage of soldiers in the latter war were Jewish. There was also the sentiment than in the early 20th century, values were beginning to ebb (this is similar to current politics in the United States) and the Jewish integration in the German apparatus (becoming teachers, lawyers, doctors, etc.) was to blame for this recession of values as opposed to modernity as a process.

2) Nationalism: Germany was brought together under the Nationalist conception that all peoples with German culture, history, and language should be united regardless of which principality currently held control. The German self-conception also had an ethnic component, holding that the perfect German was blond and blue eyed. Regardless of the fact that the majority of Germans were dark haired, Jews stuck out like a sore thumb because they overwhelmingly had darker hair. In addition, the idea of a German Jew was still rather new and both Jews and non-Jews tended to see the Jews in Germany as being part of a vast Jewish network and that these Jews just happened to be in Germany. The Nazis capitalized on this cosmopolitan sensibility by claiming that Jews' allegiances were not to the German State, but to secret Jewish Councils organizing world events.

3) Economy: Whether it was true or not, there was perception among Germans and the Nazis in particular that Jews were wealthy individuals and had a higher per-capita income than the Germans. In many ways (because of the above two reasons) Germans felt that the Jews were "stealing" their money while they were poor and suffering.

4) Pseudo-Science: The late 19th and early 20th century was filled with radical new ideas concerning Social Darwinism. It was believed by the Pseudo-Scientific community (which was rather in vogue) that different groups of people or races exhibited different emotional traits that were linked to physical differences. This led to the belief that Jews were corrupt and thieving by their irreversible nature and that they could not be "cured" and brought up as proper Europeans. This formalized Racial Anti-Semitism in Germany and made the situation much more dire for German Jews.

5) Heresy: Although not as much an issue in World War II as it may have been 500 years prior, Jews were still considered the heretics who murdered the LORD and Savior. This helped to justify Anti-Semitism as the Jewish comeuppance for their accepting of the Christ Bloodguilt.

Why was killing the Jews necessary?
The answer to the second part, while cold, is brutally honest. The Nazis encouraged the German population to believe that this myriad of Anti-Semitic issues was ingrained in German Society by making it part of the national curriculum and teaching it to millions of German children. The Nazis proposed that the only way to improve Germany was to remove the Jews entirely. There were two options for such a removal: exile or genocide. Since no country was willing to take the Jewish population en masse (and this includes the United States and United Kingdom due to prevailing stereotypes there) the Nazis made the executive decision to commit genocide to "save Germany".

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Hitler did these things because he fought in WW1 and Britain won the war, so he wanted revenge on Britain and other countries that fought against him.

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Hitler did not like Jews. He thought Jews would overpower him and take over his reign, so he eliminated them before they could dot hat

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