What Was More Important To Hitler And The Nazis??

My understanding is they essentially needed to win WWII otherwise Germany would be bankrupt - if they couldn't gain the dominance over new resources, markets and labour that victory would give them, their entire society would collapse. So as much as they hated the Jews, I think they would have preferred victory. A lot of their hatred of the Jews is because they saw them as an impediment to Aryan dominance after all.

I think it was the eradication of the Jews. If Germany had won WWII, Hitler could have slaughtered the Jews at his leisure. They weren't going anywhere. Had he rounded up the Jews and put them to work in war industries, it would have benefited Germany greatly. Hitler didn't go with the "Final Solution" until January 20th, 1942, nearly the exact moment the war turned. Yes, the Einsatzgruppen did a job of slaughtering Soviet Jews but the Nazi would have been harder pressed to kill them all. I thing Hitler after the failure of the Wehrmacht to take Moscow and the US entry into the war, wanted to kill quickly, just in case

First off, I don't think you're asking the right questions. Your phrasing seems off to me. For instance, if winning the World War is a primarily European-focused question, I think that this was, long term, within Hitler's grasp. Every little itty bit of the Continent? Likely not. He might have missed or simply chosen to overlook Monaco or one of the Balkan countries; have left Switzerland alone (bad PR, for the Yanks and others). He'd have been wise to have passed on taking charge in Portugal, and to have remained in chronic non-aggression terms with Spain. 


For Germany to have attacked the UK via invasion, would have upset everyone's balance, even as it would have greatly appeased Japan, making Asia, the Indian sub-continent included, plus much of the southern Pacific region, ripe for the plucking; still, that's not Europe, there are few Jews in those place (so WTF!). I do think that Germany could have pulled off a major victory in the West, but on different terms than they on such a project; more accommodating, willing to make deals, treaties and the like; to have held all potential enemies in check.

As to the eradication of all Jews everywhere on the planet, that's an unrealistic goal. Jews are not numerous (outside the relative handful of places where they are), and to kill each and every Jew on planet Earth strikes me as something only a small number of people (including even among non-Nazi Germans) would care to do. Also, Jews are, as a group, clever and highly intelligent; not so easy to eradicate; and it's been tried, albeit in earlier times. What's the point of this anyway? A better case would have to be made than the one Hitler & Company had proposed to compel everybody in the world to want to engage in it.

Along these same (or similar) lines, the issue of whether killing all of the world's Jews is worth such an effort raises many perfectly rational, non-pc, not specifically Left or liberal issues, such as the contributions Jewish people have made to, leaving aside religion, philosophy, mathematics, medicine, the arts, inventions and applied science generally. But yes, in theory, I do think elimination of the entire Jewish population is possible. It could happen someday, I suppose. One can't say it could never happen. Unlikely, yes. Impossible, no. I just don't think that the kind of program Hitler put forth could have succeeded, certainly not in the last century. Hitler and his minions put enormous energy into their efforts to do so, and they failed miserably at it. 

Hitler had a grandiose idea of the Third Reich, which he meant to last for a thousand years. This meant all of Europe, plus more Lebensraum in the east. Marxism and Bolshevism were the main enemies of the nazis, with Jews a close second. The Final Solution was not formalised until the very end of 1942 - it was the logical culmination of nazi politics, but their first plan was the total eviction of Jews from Europe. In 1940, the Madagascar Plan was formulated, to which Hitler had given his approval. The Final Solution, however, was infinitely more practicable - certainly as Germany now seemed to be losing the war. The failure to defeat Britain meant Germany could not hope to have free reign, and the Madagascar Plan pretty much relied on a successful outcome of the war. With the war fortunes ebbing, at least the nazis could murder as many Jews as possible - even in defeat, at least they would have done that service to the aryan race.

But this was the consolation prize. Their main goal called for victory - genocide was Plan B. Similarly, Hitler would probably not have given the order for the utter destruction of Paris had he won the war - but in defeat, he would see Paris in ruins.