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constituting again a military or strategic threat against German security and, finally, Germany 
 
intended to obtain recognition for her economic priority in Eastern and Southeastern Europe.
 
          Germany, further, would insist that the colonies stolen from her at Versailles be returned 
 
to her. Germany had not obtained these colonies through military conquest; she had obtained 
 
them through purchase or through pacific negotiation; she had never utilized her colonies for 
 
military purposes.  She now required them in order to obtain for the German people raw materials 
 
which could not be produced in Germany, and as a field for German emigration. Such a demand, 
 
Hitler felt, was not only reasonable, but just.
 
          At no time during the course of our conversation did Hitler mention the subject of 
 
German-American relations, nor did he refer directly or indirectly to German relations with Soviet 
 
Russia and with Italy.
 
          The Chancellor then passed to the subject of the war aims of the Allies. He asked me if I 
 
had heard or read the speech made in England the night before by Sir John Simon.  I told him that 
 
I had not. He said that if I had read the speech, I would gain therefrom the same clear 
 
understanding that he had gained, namely, that the speech constituted a clear-cut definition of 
 
English aims, that is, the total destruction of Germany.
 
          He said, "I am fully aware that the allied powers believe that a distinction can be made 
 
between National Socialism and the German people. There was never a greater mistake. The 
 
German people today are united as one man, and I have the support of every German. I can see 
 
no hope for the establishment of any lasting oeace until the will of England and France to destroy 
 
Germany is itself destroyed.
 
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