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Germany had always been profitably sold by Germany to the United States. The question, I said, 
 
was not one of a purely bilateral nature but involved  necessarily the problem of profitable 
 
triangular trade which had always entered into the picture of Germany's trade relations with the 
 
United States. Furthermore for Germany to be able to sell profitably the bulk of her luxury 
 
manufactured products she had to find countries where the standard of living was relatively high. 
 
Surely I believed the standard of living in the countries of Southeastern Europe was not 
 
sufficiently high to make it possible for Germany to find there any profitable market for a very 
 
large percentage of her industrial production.
 
          Hitler did not seem to comprehend this problem, and dropped the topic after remarking 
 
that a country with a population of 140 individuals to the square kilometer must increase its 
 
production if those individuals are to find the where-with-all to survive. I said that it seemed to
 
me that there was no country in the world that would profit more immediately and more greatly 
 
than Germany from a restoration of liberal international trade relations, and that through such a 
 
restoration the 140 individuals to the square German kilometer of whom he had spoken would 
 
obtain an increased standard of living and derive therefrom an immediately greater purchasing 
 
power, particularly if their work was dedicated to constructive production, rather than to the 
 
sterile manufacture of munitions.
 
          Hitler then said that Germany's aims and objectives were simple and that he would outline 
 
them to me; he would classify them as {a) historical, (b) political and   economic.
 
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