Hey, I was wondering what's written in the title; did he really believe in what he did, or was he just taking advantage of the German people by choosing an enemy and building upon the hate? (I mean, he clearly did the later, but did he really believe in what he was preaching?)
If there was one motivating thought in Adolf Hitler's mind throughout his political career it was seeking the destruction of Judaism, Communism, and the intersection therein. To Hitler, the Jews were the vicious, implacable enemies of the Germans in a centuries-long race war and were the orchestrating force in the motivation of his enemies. Before the war started, Hitler declared that if the Jews began another War (his phrasing) he would make sure that they suffered as a result.
Have a few quotations from his will, a document he wrote at the very end of his career and life with little need to convince anyone of anything.
"It is untrue that I or anyone else in Germany wanted the war in 1939. It was desired and instigated exclusively by those international statesmen who were either of Jewish descent or worked for Jewish interests. I have made too many offers for the control and limitation of armaments, which posterity will not for all time be able to disregard for the responsibility for the outbreak of this war to be laid on me. I have further never wished that after the first fatal world war a second against England, or even against America, should break out. Centuries will pass away, but out of the ruins of our towns and monuments the hatred against those finally responsible whom we have to thank for everything, international Jewry and its helpers, will grow."
"I have also made it quite plain that, if the nations of Europe are again to be regarded as mere shares to be bought and sold by these international conspirators in money and finance, then that race, Jewry, which is the real criminal of this murderous struggle, will be saddled with the responsibility. I further left no one in doubt that this time not only would millions of children of Europe's Aryan peoples die of hunger, not only would millions of grown men suffer death, and not only hundreds of thousands of women and children be burnt and bombed to death in the towns, without the real criminal having to atone for this guilt, even if by more humane means."
The very last line of his Political Testament:
"Above all I charge the leaders of the nation and those under them to scrupulous observance of the laws of race and to merciless opposition to the universal poisoner of all peoples, international Jewry."
That was the last message Adolf Hitler wanted to convey to the world.
There is little doubt that Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitism was far, far more than a gimmick.