“It is eastwards, only and always eastwards, that the veins of our race must expand. It is the direction which Nature herself has decreed for the expansion of the German peoples.”

—  Adolf Hitler

7 February 1945.
Disputed, The Testament of Adolf Hitler (1945)

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