Julie Paulson

“Had the German leader been a full-blooded politician, he could have chosen to consolidate his position and offer his people—who had followed him with doglike devotion into his wars—a period of peace. But Hitler’s desire to conquer was so overpowering that he could not stop at defeat. Being denied his Russian victory seemed to spoil the game for him, and from that point on he was after total Armageddon. The first victim would be the country he had specifically chosen for his empire, which had then dared to disappoint him. On November 27, he announced in a radio address: “If the German people are no longer strong enough and prepared to sacrifice their blood for their existence, then they shall pass away and be destroyed by another, stronger power . . . and then I will not weep for the German people.”
― Annejet van der Zijl, The Boy Between Worlds