Hitler o turističkom raju u Hrvatskoj, Krimu i uništenju Moskve

Night of 5th-6th July 1941, 11.30 p.m. – i. so a.m.

The shortening of space by roads – The frontier of the Urals – Moscow must disappear – The treasures of the Hermitage

               The beauties of the Crimea, which we shall make accessible by means of an authobahn – for us Germans, that will be our Riviera. Crete is scorching and dry. Cyprus would be lovely, but we can reach the Crimea by road. Along that road lies Kiev! And Croatia, too, a tourists^, paradise for us. I expect that after the war will be a great upsurge of rejoicing.

               Better than the railway, which has something impersonal about it, it^,s the road that will bring peoples together. What progress in the direction of the New Europe! Just as the autobahn has caused the inner frontiers of Germany to disappear, so it will abolish the frontiers of the countries of Europe.

To those who ask me whether it will be enough to reach the Urals as a frontier, I reply that for the present it is enough for the frontier to be drawn back as far as that. What matters is that Bolshevism must be exterminated. In case of necessity, we shall renew our advance wherever a new centre of resistance is formed. Moscow, as the centre of the doctrine, must disappear from the earth’s surface, as soon as its riches have been brought to shelter. There’s no question of our collaborating with the Muscovite proletariat. Anyhow, St. Petersburg, as a city, is incomparably more beautiful than Moscow.

Probably the treasures of the Hermitage have not been stored at the Kremlin, as they were during the first World War, but in the country-houses—unless they’ve been shifted to the cities east of Moscow, or still further by river.

Str. 4-5.

Hitler^,s table talk 1941-1944 His Private Convesations

Translated by Norman Cameron and R.H. Stevens

Introduced and with new Preface by H.R. Trevor-Roper

Enigma books, 2000.

https://ia601305.us.archive.org/27/items/HitlerTableTalk/Hitler%20TableTalk.pdf .