Did Hitler really hate the Jews?

[jewscout]

In my opinon it was a show for the common people. In Mein Kaumpf he never advocates the killing of the Jews, but rather the subujation of the Jews. I believe that he did not advocate the mass slaughter of the Jews, but it was something done behind his back so to speak.

Hitler Interview in the New York Staatszeitung, 1933.

"Why does the world shed crocodile’s tears over the richly merited fate of a small Jewish minority? … I ask Roosevelt, I ask the American people: Are you prepared to receive in your midst these well-poisoners of the German people and the universal spirit of Christianity? We would willingly give everyone of them a free steamer-ticket and a thousand-mark note for travelling expenses, if we could get rid of them." (Quoted in N H Baynes, The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, Oxford University Press, 1942, Volume I, pp.727-28)

Rosenberg, Alfred

"Anti-Semitism is the unifying element of the reconstruction of Germany."

(Referred to at the Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Vol.3, Nuremberg, 1947, p. 35)

"Germany will regard the Jewish question as solved only after the very last Jew has left the greater German living space... Europe will have its Jewish question solved only after the very last Jew has left the continent." (Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Vol.3, Nuremberg, 1947, p. 35)

Now I'm playing devil's advocate, but there is evidence that he wanted them dead or not. There is evidence whether he used the idea as a stepping stone or not.

From the very onset of the Nazi party led by Adolf Hitler there is ample evidence for violent antisemitism...
"The recent publication of all known speeches and writings of Hitler between 1919 and 1924 provides for the first time an opportunity to observe the self-image profiled in his public statements. In the present context, what is significant, if not altogether surprising, is that hardly a speech or publication went by between 1920 and 1922 without the most concentrated vitriol being poured upon the Jews...The ubiquity of the Jewish theme in his public addresses at this time makes it impossible to imagine that early converts to Nazism could fail to regard violent anti-Semitism as a leading feature of Hitler's image" - Taken from The 'Hitler Myth' by Ian Kershaw
Kershaw's work notes, however, that Hitler's message, beginning in 1922, loses some of it's focus on the Jewish Question, focusing more on the broader anti-Marxist message which was far more popular with a wider audience.
But as to the question you raised about did Hitler want to kill the Jews...we can find that answer in what Kershaw refers to as "The nauseating 'documentary' film, Der ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew)" that premiered in 1940...
"The film, which concentrated on depicting the 'real' ghetto Jew behind the 'mask of assimilation', and, using trick photography, likened the migrations of Jews to the spread of a plague of bacillus-carrying rats, closed 'in shining contrast', as the film programme put it, with a clip of Hitler's Reichstag speech of 30 January 1939, 'prophesying' the annihilation of Jewry."

There is enough evidence to show, it would seem, that Hitler downplayed his violent antisemitic message to gain the trust of what could be called "Middle Germany", as it were, and then, through propaganda, push his agenda of finding a way to rid Germany, and Europe, of the "Jewish Question".

 

[Ody]

The massacres that led to the coining of the word "genocide" (the Endlösung der jüdischen Frage or "Final Solution of the Jewish Question") were planned and ordered by leading Nazis, with Himmler playing a key role. While no specific order from Hitler authorizing the mass killing of the Jews has surfaced, there is documentation showing that he approved the Einsatzgruppen and the evidence also suggests that sometime in the fall of 1941 Himmler and Hitler agreed in principle on mass extermination by gassing. During interrogations by Soviet intelligence officers declassified over fifty years later, Hitler's valet Heinz Linge and his military aide Otto Gunsche said Hitler had "pored over the first blueprints of gas chambers."
To make for smoother intra-governmental cooperation in the implementation of this "Final Solution" to the "Jewish question", the Wannsee conference was held near Berlin on January 20, 1942, with fifteen senior officials participating, led by Reinhard Heydrich and Adolf Eichmann. The records of this meeting provide the clearest evidence of central planning for the Holocaust. Days later, on February 22, Hitler was recorded saying to his closest associates, "we shall regain our health only by eliminating the Jew".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler#The_Holocaust

 

[Booko]

However we won the second world war and now the Jews have majority control over the western world in politics and economics. (don't beileve me? go reserch it and you will then)

Oh, that's what that thing is in my neighbors' window that they've aimed in my direction! It's their Jewish mind control laser!

How silly of me to leave off my tinfoil hat, but I really did have to take a shower today...

 

[ALifetimeToWaitFor....]

very good, I would need to watch the movie and read the book before I can make any conclusions. thanks alot though.

 

[Deut 13:1]

In my opinon it was a show for the common people. In Mein Kaumpf he never advocates the killing of the Jews, but rather the subujation of the Jews. I believe that he did not advocate the mass slaughter of the Jews, but it was something done behind his back so to speak.

Yea I am sure he didn't notice 6 million people vanishing around him. What state are you in??? Would you notice if 6 million people in your state just disapeared???

 

[Scuba Pete]

Did Hitler personally hate the Jews, or did he just spread a contemptuous disposition towards them to gain political power and popular support?

Does his motivation really matter here? A tree is known by it's fruit. His fruit was venomous.

 

[!Fluffy!]

"Who authorized the killings?

Hitler authorized the mass killing of those labelled by the Nazis as "undesirables" in the T-4 Euthanasia Program. Hitler encouraged the killings of the Jews of Eastern Europe by the Einsatzgruppen death squads in a speech in July, 1941, though he almost certainly approved the mass shootings earlier. A mass of evidence suggests that sometime in the fall of 1941, Himmler and Hitler agreed in principle on the complete mass extermination of the Jews of Europe by gassing, with Hitler explicitly ordering the "annihilation of the Jews" in a speech on December 12, 1941 (see Final Solution). To make for smoother intra-governmental cooperation in the implementation of this "Final Solution" to the "Jewish Question", the Wannsee conference was held near Berlin on January 20, 1942, with the participation of fifteen senior officials, led by Reinhard Heydrich and Adolf Eichmann, the records of which provide the best evidence of the central planning of the Holocaust. Just five weeks later on February 22, Hitler was recorded saying "We shall regain our health only by eliminating the Jew" to his closest associates.
Arguments that no documentation links Hitler to "the Holocaust" ignore the records of his speeches kept by Nazi leaders such as Joseph Goebbels and rely on artificially limiting the Holocaust to exclude what we do have documentation on, such as the T-4 Euthanasia Program and the Kristallnacht pogrom."

-wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust#Who_was_directly_involved_in_the_mass_murder.3F

I studied the Holocaust for two harrowing semesters under the tutelage of an exacting and meticulous scholar. We reviewed many hours of films of Nazi origin (they had a penchant for filming their gruesome work) as well as thousands of pages of speech transcripts. We were honored by many guest speakers, including survivors of the death camps and U.S. officers who fought on the front lines and were there when places like Auschwitz and Ravensbruk were discovered and liberated.

Hitler was the author and instigator of the carnage. There is no serious researcher or reputable historian who would argue otherwise.