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Hitler possessed and articulated a coherent body of thought. Jews were the center of his philosophical system. Or rather, Hitler's philosophical system consisted of a dialectic between two objects: the Jew on the one hand and "Germany" on the other.
Jews were conceived as a people whose very existence worked toward the destruction of Germany and the world. As long as Jews existed, Hitler believed, the world be dominated by evil. Jews constituted a force tearing Germany--and the peoples of the world--apart.
Waging war for Hitler and the Final Solution were undertaken to destroy Judaism. He attacked the Soviet Union to kill off "Jewish-Bolshevism." This was his deepest aspiration. By attacking Russia, he explained to Goebbels, he was being "true to himself."
Historians ascribe "rationality" to Hitler, assuming his actions were designed to achieve "real" goals. They say that Hitler attacked the Soviet Union to achieve "living space" for the German Reich.
The truth is that Hitler attacked the Soviet Union because he believed Russia was the source or breeding ground of "Jewish bacteria." This is where Jewish bacteria grew and were nurtured. He wanted to cut off Jewish bacteria at their source.
The belief that it was necessary to kill Jews lay at the heart of Hitler's thinking or philosophical system. This was the origin and objective of his reign of terror.
Waging war was not undertaken as a desire for "conquest," even though historians of World War II believe this was the case. To "conquer the world," for Hitler, meant, very simply, making it possible to kill every single Jew on the face of the earth.
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