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Hitler never made secret his hatred for the Jews, but he never stated he wanted to kill them all. In fact initially he didn't intend to; initial plans of the III Reich called for denying them any kind of citicenship rights, then introduced a huge ammount of racial laws to prevent them to mix with the rest of the germasn. In the late 30s there were plans to start a massive deportation of German Jews to a far away place like Madagascar.
The "final solution" was not what Hitler had initially in mind for the jews. The "Final Solution" was something that was started only by January 1942 (it even has documents instating it, written in the wansee conference and later used during the Nurnberg trials), so the decision of killing the jews can only be traced back to late 1941. That's when Hitler started the bureocratic tramits that ended in the Wansee Conference. And according to quotes, and some testimonies, apparently hitler decided to start mass killing them because he could not get rid of them in any other way (Germany was under a strict naval blockade and now had much more jews under their rule because they had conquered two thirds of europe, so deportation was no more an option).
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