@RedPowerLady the anti-semitism of the German people already existed, and Hitler merely found a way to capitalize on it. I’ve read enough about Hitler over the years to know that what he did was not as phenomenal as some people assume. There were others with even worse views about Jews and other non-Aryan races that could have easily surpassed what Hitler did.
Hitler had a rough childhood, and according to the book by Augustlan Kubizek, Hitler spent most of his youth perfecting his oratory skills and trying to become an artist.
There are a lot of things about Hitler that many people simply assume, and many of them are untrue, being based on the propaganda of Goebbels. Post WW1 Germany was a place of terrifying unemployment, and the burdens placed upon the country at the end of that war were very stifling and truly horrendous. The world made Hitler, and if he hadn’t become the Chancellor of Germany, and the ultimate Fuhrer, someone else very likely would have. The German people needed solutions, and Hitler found a way to provide them. To speculate WW2 and the Holocaust would have not happened had Hitler not been born or been killed as a young man is quite unlikely. I don’t know how to explain it any better.
To understand the Holocaust, one must understand history, and not only how Hitler came to power, but also why. Killing Hitler may or may not have altered history. There is simply no way to tell. If the Art Academy of Vienna had accepted Hitler, we might not even be having this conversation, and Hitler would have been no more than a footnote in history as a third-rate painter. He was more of an architectural painter than anything, and if he had followed that path, who knows what may have been.
Look closely at the men whom Hitler surrounded himself with, and you will find that many of them were very monstrous in their quest for ultimate power. If you remember, Hitler went to prison after the failed Beer hall Putsch. that was when he wrote Mein Kampf. Hitler didn’t really have any charisma, he simply understood how powerful propaganda was, and he understood that finding a scapegoat for Germany’s woes was paramount to his cause. He spoke to German’s suffering populace and like many other dictators, he gave people what they wanted to hear. Many Germans distrusted Hitler from the beginning. Those people were eliminated. And if a Germn didn’t join the Nazi Party, the ability to live day to day was severely hindered. Hitler killed more than Jews, he killed homosexuals, Gypsies, the infirm, the elderly, the mentally and physically handicapped. He murdered or had murdered anyone that he perceived stood in his way. He had his thugs kill a member of the German Parliment by taking the old man onto a deserted road and they killed him with pick axes.
He learned to place the blame on the Jews by listening to other Germans who were even more virulently anti-Semite. Hitler was a monster, but he wasn’t the only monster in Germany at the time. There were plenty of sadistic killers to fill the ranks.