Adolf Hitler hated Jews due to a combination of deeply rooted historical antisemitism, racial ideology, conspiracy theories, and personal beliefs. He and the Nazi Party adopted and promoted a form of antisemitism that defined Jews as a separate and inferior race, blaming them falsely for many societal problems including Germany's defeat in World War I, economic crises, and political instability. This hatred was fueled by long-standing prejudices, racist pseudoscience like the concept of a superior Aryan race, and conspiratorial myths such as the "stab-in-the-back" theory and Jewish control of capitalism and communism. Hitler's antisemitism was central to Nazi ideology and led to systematic persecution and the Holocaust, a state- sponsored genocide of six million Jews during World War II.
