Why Hitler hated Jewish people: World War I was a great disaster for Germany. One of that war's causes was competition between industrial England and industrializing Germany for world trade and world markets.
Hitler was a soldier in the German army during the war; he was very proud of his war-time service.
Germany was devestated by the war. The peace settlement imposed upon Germany by the Allies at the end of the war was humiliating and designed to keep Germany in a third-world state of existence.
During the war, German jews had not rallied to the colors; they did not support the German war effort. A German once told me that jews were much disliked in Germany after World War I because they had not supported the war. Considering Hitler's pride in his war-time service and Germany's devestation by the war and the shameful settlement imposed upon Germany by the Allies, it is very likely that Hitler shared this dislike of jews.
Hitler certainly used the German people's displeasure with the jews for his own political advantage, as previous answers have amply described. But how could he murder so many people?
Hitler was extremely power hungry. He started and prolonged World War IIso that he could increase and prolong his hold on power. When it became obvious that Germany would loose the World War II, he continued to make war because it was also obvious that he could hold onto power only so long as the war lasted.
That he could persecute the jews for political power, then use that power to murder so many of them; that he could prolong the suffering and death of so many victims of war so as to hold onto power,demonstrates thatat the very least that he had no value system to form his character. I believe he was a psychopath. Desire for power and lack of empathy for other people's suffering are characteristics of psychopaths.
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