Let's try to remember why we are talking about this in the first place. I was addressing why Hitler went after the libs and commies. When we are looking at Germany as a whole, obviously the Treaty of Versailles caused the conditions that caused suffering in Germany and created incentives for the people to rise up out of it. Any dictatorship could have been created by those conditions. However, it doesn't explain Nazism. The Communists were an easy target because they were causing so much internal strife in Germany AND they were the primary faction competing for power in Germany. You remove communism, and the anti-Semitism goes down by a decent margin in Germany. Italy didn't have this same problem, because the communist movement in Italy wasn't associated with the Jews like it was in Germany. But keep in mind, the Fascists were fighting against the communists in their own country, same with the Nazi's. That obstacle had to be dealt with first.

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