Lilsia
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There seems to be some confusion here, as I am not sure you are 'correcting' what was said by the PP. The PP did not say Hitler started the war because he hated Jews.
The Nazis did not did not plan on the Final Solution at first. That was at the Wansee Conference of January 1942. It came about because they were so successful. Germany was something like 4% Jewish, so rounding up Jews posed little logistical problem. But once they were rounding up most of the Jews of Europe, they were inundated. Auschwitz I was a former Polish army base and was not designed as a death camp, though certainly people were executed there. Later, they had to purpose-build Auschwitz II (Birkinau) as a POW/work camp, and they made it into a death camp in March of 1942 (two months after Wansee) in order to gas Jews immediately upon arrival. So anti-semitism absolutely did lead to the Holocaust. The PP is correct.
You are correct if you say it was not only Jews as their targets. The Nazis planned to enslave all Poles and build factories around Auschwitz where the Poles would perform slave labor.
I was saying that it was not Hitler's racism that caused him to try to take over the world. BTW, Hitler hated pretty much everyone, not just the Jewish people. His goal was to get rid of anyone the was not his ideal race. That is just one of his many issues. And what the problem is that everyone seems to think that it was only the Jews that were sent to the camps and killed. It was EVERYONE. Many members of my family included. My grandma(who is 93) was actually a slave for the Germans. She would gladly tell people what it was really like. Over the years when I have told people my family's story, 100% of people thought that we were Jewish because they had been taught that ONLY the Jews were targeted. The more times that truth is told, the more people realize that they have not learned the whole story.