Are you a functionalist or an intentionalist?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I agree with Vosem and Nathan. Hitler wanted the Jews gone by any means and he was fine with genocide as early as the 1920s. At the same time the practicality of killing that many itself would discourage an extermination in favor of other options, among "other figures", until the "war" pushed the rest of the regime in Hitler's direction.

*It should be clarified that the war as processed through the warped Nazi view of the world as having been caused by the Jewish people to destroy the Germans. I believe there is a speech where Hitler threatened the extermination of the Jews if "they caused another war".

This is one aspect in which I agree with the Youtuber TiK as well, leaving aside his biased framing in other regards. Hitler very much wanted a "pure Germanic" community, and the only way he thought he could achieve that was through the elimination of the Jews from society.