Why did Hitler target Jews during the Holocaust?

I have answered this a few times so I am going to copy and paste from an old one. First, the Jews were not the only target of the Holocaust:


I personally believe that it started as an attempt to unify a Germany left in a terrible state after WWI.

Hitler and his henchmen picked an internal foe... the Jews. The Jews were already disliked. Goebbels produced some horrible propaganda films to demonize them (I have some youtubes of a few of them if anyone is interested) and set up this unifying foe within Germany.

This was also done later to the Gypsies when we were added to the Final Solution as were any others the Nazi party did not like. I have seen the propaganda films against us but there are not as many, nearly, as there were against the Jews. There were also propaganda films against the mentally disabled.

Then the Jews were shunted into ghettos where they were bled dry of every last scrap of money and then... off to the Camps where they were stripped of everything from the gold in their teeth to their hair. These things were sold. All of the items of others, of course, were likewise sold, however, the Jews got the ghettos first whereas we, the Gypsies, did not. We did not have money. We just went to the Camps after a stay in internment centers.

The Reich denies financial gain from this but that is, to me, patent bullshit.

I am undecided in my mind if Hitler believed his own propaganda in the beginning but, with the constant influence of his henchmen and the drugs being pumped into his system by an idiotic "personal physician" I believe he DID come to believe it himself.

Hitler and his henchmen also used the Camps to get rid of anyone who was a threat to the Nazi regime. If you look at the list of peoples targeted, you can stick anyone in there you wish and they did.

I personally believe that had Germany won the Nazis would not have stopped with the Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Slavs, and all the rest.