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Was Hitler homicidally racist from the start of his career whether when he first joined the Nazi Party in the 20s or when he actually took power in 1933?

Was it always Hitler's intention to deal with so called inferior races such as the Jews, Gypsies and the Slavs to the East using violence and killing?

In 1922 in an interview when asked what he would do to the Jews when he was in power Hitler responded with:

Once I really am in power, my first and foremost task will be the annihilation of the Jews. As soon as I have the power to do so, I will have gallows built in rows - at the Marienplatz in Munich, for example - as many as traffic allows.

Then the Jews will be hanged indiscriminately, and they will remain hanging until they stink; they will hang there as long as the principles of hygiene permit. As soon as they have been untied, the next batch will be strung up, and so on down the line, until the last Jew in Munich has been exterminated. Other cities will follow suit, precisely in this fashion, until all Germany has been completely cleansed of Jews.

This is very interesting because this is a sign of the lengths Hitler was willing to go to solve the "Jewish Question."

If he had been asked about what he would do to Gypsies or the Slavs that lived in the Lebensraum areas in Poland and the USSR I wonder if his response would be just as horrific.

Another answer Hitler gave in an interview in 1934 deals with how other races should be treated:

We are obliged to depopulate as part of our mission of preserving the German population. We shall have to develop a technique of depopulation. If you ask me what I mean by depopulation, I mean the removal of entire racial units. And that is what I intend to carry out - that, roughly, is my task. Nature is cruel: therefore, we, too, must be cruel. If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the spilling of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin.

And by remove I don't necessarily mean destroy; I shall simply take systematic measures to dam their great natural fertility. . . . There are many ways, systematically and comparatively painless, or any rate bloodless, of causing undesirable races to die out.
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