[Professor S]

Hitler's mindset was purely race based. He believed in the myth of the superiority of not just the white race, but the blonde haired blue eyed arian race. This ideal of racial purity superceded even religion, and essentially National Socialism became about self-worship.

Hitler believed that the Jews were responsible for the plight of his racially impure country, they were not just a scapegoat for a failed Germany that was persecuted after WWI. All accounts of those who knew Hitler during this time back this up.

Also, even in the hypothetical chance if the jews were a scapegoat for WWI, they were still a race that was targeted to be a scapegoat because of the intense anti-semitism that was prevalent at that time. So in the end, it was still all about race.

In fact anti-semitism is currently running rampant in Europe and has been for a while now, especially in Spain.