"I have issued the command – and I'll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad – that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death-head formation in readiness – for the present only in the East – with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language."
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Adolf Hitler, Obersalzberg Speech (22 August 1939), par. 3, as translated by Louis Paul Lochner, What About Germany (1942), pp. 11–12
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Adolf Hitler
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deutscher Politiker (NSDAP)
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