Why did Hitler and the Nazis target the Jews?
One of the reasons Hitler targeted the Jews is because as a young man he had a crush on a Jewish girl, and her father forbid the relationship because he did not think Hitler was good enough for his daughter. But Hitler’s passion for antisemitism was something more than just his upbringing. There is little indication in his correspondance or his friend’s and relative’s memories that he strongly believed in a Jewish plot to destroy Germany until 1919. Part of his antisemitism in this case is psychological, news of the war’s end and Germany’s loss came to Hitler when he was half blind in Pasewalk hospital, which would have increased the blow. Ludendorff’s stab in the back theory (the belief that the Jews were responsible for the end of the war) had a big impact on Hitler (what soldier wouldn’t be influenced by his top commander?), and the Jewish involvement in the communist uprisings and the later hated Weimar Republic would have cemented this in Hitler’s mind. And for a guy who was prett
