Re: Ask me about Adolf Hitler.
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When first given the order Hitler stated to Speer "If the war is lost, the people will be lost also. It is not necessary to worry about what the German people will need for elemental survival. On the contrary, it is best for us to destroy even these things. For the Nation has proved to be the weaker, and the future belongs soley to the stronger eastern nation.
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From about the defeat of the Sixth Army at Stalingrad various sources, (no time to look up now) had attributed Hitler's shift in tone to blaming the entire German people for their inevitable defeat. At first he blamed only General Paulus for his surrender, later all his generals, then the entire officer corp, but comments of this nature had begun to creep into his diatribes from about this point onward quite frequently I think.
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