Statement by Hitler
"By now it is
clear that [the conflict between Germany and the USSR] has … gradually assumed
the characteristics of a struggle that can only be compared to the greatest
historical events of the past. The pitiless and merciless war that has been
forced upon us by external Jewry will lay the entire Continent in ruins unless
the forces of [eastern] destruction can be stopped before reaching Europe’s
borders. [Should they break through], the worst consequences would be not
burned cities and wrecked cultural monuments but the bestial massacres of
masses of human beings comparable to those that followed the invasions of the
Huns and Mongols out of inner Asia."