Early on in Hitler’s campaign there is no direct evidence that places Hitler in a state of movement where he has included the physical extermination of Jews as a matter of official policy. Hitler didn’t intend to kill the Jews from the start; he only wanted to rid them from the Reich. At the very beginning Hitler simply wanted lebensraum, "living space," for the pure German people. In the Nuremberg Laws of 1930, the Nazi party wanted to design a series of laws that assured the purity of German blood and German honour and basically stripped Jews of their rights so that they would move on. These laws were passed in 1935 and many others, ensured a move on Hitler’s view of the Jewish race in Germany. No law passed ever stated the physical destruction of the Jewish race. In a letter to Adolf Gemlich in 1919, Hitler states that he stated that the Jewish problem would eventually be solved through a process of depriving the Jews privileges and classifying them as foreigners. This in its own right shows that early on in the movement Hitler only wanted to make the Jews feel un-wanted and rejected in the German way of life. In 1940, plans were devised by the Nazis to ship all Jews to Madagascar. This was called the ‘Madagascan Plan’ and involved moving every single Jew from Germany and her captured lands to Madagascar so as to rid them from Germany altogether. This was abandoned soon after the Wannsee Conference as it was deemed impractical for operation during wartime.
Even in Hitler’s book, Mein Kampf, we can see The Death Camps that led to the death of so many Jewish people was actually under the ultimate control of Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi SS. Some would say that Hitler did not even order the 1st destruction process of the Jewish race but only found out about it and decided to go along with it after there was no other way out. On October 23, 1941 Himmler issued an order down the Nazi chain of command which heralded a major change in Nazi policy with respect to the "Jewish problem." Until then, the Nazis worked vigorously to encourage Jews to emigrate. But now the ultimate solution was to be the extermination of the Jews. As many countries started not accepting immigrating Jews Germany and Hitler had nothing else to do with them. They could not deport them so they decided to put them into camps. The fact is there is no evidence linking Hitler to wanting to physically rid German of the Jewish people at the start. He only wanted to rid them from the Reich, not kill them all. But after all that had happened, those that did not leave ‘made’ Hitler have to issue a call for getting rid of them some how. Nazi racial ideology stated the need for an anti-sematic society but not the intent of killing them off. The destruction of the Jewish race was a ‘way out’ for the Nazis, as different agencies put forward different ideas of how to solve the ‘Jewish Problem’ it became increasingly more obvious that there was only one way out. Hitler had tried to move the Jewish Problem away from Europe but found it was ‘to hard’ or wasn’t working. Adolf Hitler turned to the worst possible solution, genocide. Today the right of citizenship, as mentioned above, is primarily achieved by birth within the borders of a state. In this, race or nationality play no role whatever. A Negro, who formerly lived in the German protectorates and now has his residence in Germany, gives birth to a German citizen in the person of his child. Likewise every Jewish or Polish, African or Asiatic child can be declared a German citizen without further ado. (Adolf Hitler – Mein Kampf: Chapter 3) We can see Hitler only wanted a pure German race, not the destruction of others in Germany. He wanted to get rid of them, and in the end it came down to genocide.
In the end we can see that Hitler and in turn the whole Nazi party wanted to rid Germany and Europe of all Jewish presence as they were al fault for everything wrong in there. Hitler does not state (before the killing of the Jewish people) that he wish to bring physical harm to the Jewish race, only to condemn them to another place outside of the Reich. After the attempt to move all Jewish people from Germany and surroundings Hitler’s only option was to destroy them. It was the only thing to do in a time of war. It is seen that Hitler did not want to commit to genocide at the beginning but that the annihilation of the Jewish race came about after many attempts to get rid of them another way.
