Why did Hitler........?

Question

Why did Hitler HATE the Jews, Blacks, Russians, Gypsies, ect? Did he hate any people from Asia? Did he hate Muslims?

Answer 1

You could go insane delving into the mind of a psycho. No one can understand the reasons why anyone would do those things and believe in them.

Answer 2

To fully understand Hitler you must understand a few things about Germany....

More often than not through it's long history, Germany had not been anything close to a unified country. In Roman times, the germanic people were nomadic and tribal. In the Middle Ages, what is now Germany was a loosely organized collection of hundreds of independant states and kingdoms. To have influence over "Germany" one had to be a master politician (like the Holy Roman Emperors) or a military powerhouse (like the Prussians up to WWI).

Culturally, this disunity made Germany rather "backwards" compared to the glorious empires built up by France & England to the West and Russia to the East. Only until it built up its industrial capacity in the early 20th century, was Germany able to enjoy the colonial expansion it's neighbors had enjoyed for hundreds of years. In short, even during the Imperial Years before WWI, Germany was seen as a second-class cousin in European politics.

Hitler was obsessed with Germanic identity. He followed the thinking of philosophers like Nietzche who saw the Germans as spiritual descendants of the Greek Empire. His pursuit of a perfect German state led him to an insane hatred of all things non-German.

He thought Germany could not be a "pure" state until all non-German elements were purged from it. Communists and Jews were an easy target because they were already within Germany at that time, as were gypsies, homosexuals and so on.

I believe there is some documentation (if I remember it later, I'll list the source) that he expressed "respect" for other "pure" societies like that in Japan and posibly some of the muslim nations as well..but there is little doubt that he saw the Germans as vastly superior to all of them.

Much of this is relavant today because of the rise of similar philosophies among religious fundamentalists and other nations with "chips on their shoulders" like North Korea.

Answer 3

He hated everyone that he perceived to be a threat to him and his friends. Jews, mainly because they had some control over the banking industry at that time. But, not all. Germany was hit very hard in the depression. The Jews were an unfortunate 'scapegoat' for Germany's ills. And they didn't deserve it.

Answer 4

Each and everyone on that list, and then some. He believed that the perfect world was that ruled by Anglo Saxon, blond haired, blue eyed, Christian Nazis. Hell, they hated Mussolini, his alliance with him was merely a means to an end. Why, I don't know. Why he hated them is the only thing we DON'T know about the guy.

Answer 5

A lot of people think it has to do with his father and the hard times he went through as a young man. Possibly something to do with being somewhat a german and somewhat a jew at that time probably took its toll on him.

Answer 6

He hated all non-Aryans (blond haired, blue eyed Germanic people)

Answer 7

because he was raciest and crazy in the head.