Hitler's Side of the Story

This post is not meant in any way to justify Hitler's actions, to belittle the damage done by Hitler and the Nazi Party, or to encourage holocaust deniers or anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists. It is only meant to present what I feel to be Hitler's side of the story: his motivations, how he came to hate the Jews, his convictions, and the series of events that led to Hitler's decision to systematically exterminate, rather than merely oppress and relocate the Jews. If you wish to learn more about Hitler's foundational motivations that led to his rise to power and anti-Semitic beliefs and actions, I recommend you read his magnum opus "Mein Kampf" (lit. "My Struggle").

I think Hitler was an opportunist, and that was his primary political incentive. he wanted power and to change the world, and saw the means to do so. He didn't actually want to kill the Jews at first, and his original plan was to banish them and get rid of their ability to conduct business. basically, prevent them from causing any further damage.

It wasn't until after WWII became an inevitability that Hitler started really wanting to kill the jews. before that, he actually passed legislation to improve living conditions for the Jews. It's far more complicated of a story than anyone knows.

Hitler strongly felt that the Germans had both the ability and resources to win the first World War, and the Germans somehow lost anyway, he felt that the German people were being betrayed, and that most of them were 'taking it up the ass' (metaphorically speaking), even though they were betrayed by their own politicians. He was certain the German defeat was the result of the manipulation of the German military by a third-party, and he made it a mission to find out what this third-party was.

After Hitler read some anti-semitic literature, he first discounted it as tabloid material, but the idea of a Jewish conspiracy remained in his mind. he did a great deal of research, and came to the conclusion that the Jewish people were the ones who brought about the betrayal of the Germans that caused them to lose WWI, and that furthermore, the Jews were manipulating the whole world, with the aim of taking it over completely. The more he researched and thought about it, the more convinced Hitler became that the Jews were the biggest threat the the world. He then made it his mission to gain power in Germany by any means necessary, to save the German nation from the scourge that were the Jews.

While Hitler was in prison (before the Nazi party or any of the travesties he is blamed for took place) "He announced that he wanted to completely destroy the parliamentary system, believing it in principle to be corrupt, as those who reach power are inherent opportunists"

this means that Hitler knew that by reaching power he would become an opportunist, and even while in prison he was planning to corrupt himself for the self-righteous cause of freeing the German people from the two greatest evils the world had ever seen: Communism and Judaism.

Hitler initially just wanted to relocate the Jews, to conquer regions that had a Jewish population, and then move the German-Jews over there. But his conquests got the attention of Britain and France, and soon the whole world was spreading FUD about the German National Socialist takeover, and WWII had begun.

When Hitler realized that WWII was coming, he once again blamed the Jews, because in the course of his research he discovered that the Jews controlled the vast majority of the media. He was certain that the Jews had used their power to incite the European nations against Germany, that the Jewish had manipulated the whole of Europe into declaring war against the German nation. Thus, he said: "If international finance Jewry in and outside Europe should succeed in thrusting the nations once again into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevisation of the earth and with it the victory of Jewry, but the destruction of the Jewish race in Europe."

Hitler had become convinced that the Jews were the cause of WWII, that they had used to media to create war for profit, and that they were once again using their media to mislead the people's of Europe, and to incite another world war against Germany. So he had decided that if the Jews once again brought about another world war, he would do everything he can to exterminate them, so as to put an end to their destructive and manipulative influence. It was with this quote that he had finally changed his mind about what to do about the Jews. At first he just wanted to strip them of their money and power, and remove their presence from Germany. But now, realizing that the Jews were too powerful to be neutralized peacefully, he vowed to destroy them completely, for the betterment of both the German nation and mankind.

Hitler and his Nazi party were devout Protestant Christians, and felt that their actions aligned with the will of God and the German people. This is clearly expressed in Himmler's Poznan speech:

"I also want to mention a very difficult subject before you here, completely openly.

It should be discussed amongst us, and yet, nevertheless, we will never speak about it in public.

Just as we did not hesitate on June 30 to carry out our duty, as ordered, and stand comrades who had failed against the wall and shoot them.

About which we have never spoken, and never will speak.

That was, thank God, a kind of tact natural to us, a foregone conclusion of that tact, that we have never conversed about it amongst ourselves, never spoken about it, everyone shuddered, and everyone was clear that the next time, he would do the same thing again, if it were commanded and necessary.

I am talking about the "Jewish evacuation": the extermination of the Jewish people.

It is one of those things that is easily said. "The Jewish people is being exterminated," every Party member will tell you, "perfectly clear, it's part of our plans, we're eliminating the Jews, exterminating them, ha!, a small matter."

And then along they all come, all the 80 million upright Germans, and each one has his decent Jew. They say: all the others are swine, but here is a first-class Jew.

And none of them has seen it, has endured it. Most of you will know what it means when 100 bodies lie together, when there are 500, or when there are 1000. And to have seen this through, and -- with the exception of human weaknesses -- to have remained decent, has made us hard and is a page of glory never mentioned and never to be mentioned.

Because we know how difficult things would be, if today in every city during the bomb attacks, the burdens of war and the privations, we still had Jews as secret saboteurs, agitators and instigators. We would probably be at the same stage as 1916-17, if the Jews still resided in the body of the German people.

We have taken away the riches that they had, and I have given a strict order, which Obergruppenführer Pohl has carried out, we have delivered these riches completely to the Reich, to the State. We have taken nothing from them for ourselves. A few, who have offended against this, will be [judged] in accordance with an order, that I gave at the beginning: He who takes even one Mark of this is a dead man.

A number of SS men have offended against this order. There are not very many, and they will be dead men - WITHOUT MERCY! We have the moral right, we had the duty to our people to do it, to kill this people who wanted to kill us. But we do not have the right to enrich ourselves with even one fur, with one Mark, with one cigarette, with one watch, with anything. That we do not have. Because at the end of this, we don't want, because we exterminated the bacillus, to become sick and die from the same bacillus.

I will never see it happen, that even one bit of putrefaction comes in contact with us, or takes root in us. On the contrary, where it might try to take root, we will burn it out together. But altogether we can say: We have carried out this most difficult task for the love of our people. And we have taken on no defect within us, in our soul, or in our character."

Especially the last paragraph of that speech, you can see that the German Nazis, all the way up to the Fuhrer himself, felt justified in their actions, that they were carrying out the will of God and the people, that everything they were doing was just and right, and that they had taken the terrible deed of eradicating the world's greatest enemy (the Jew) upon themselves, for the betterment of the Germans and mankind.