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Preventing genocide
Episodes must be exposed, documented, and punished
Shortly before Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Adolf Hitler made a secret speech which set the scene for the cycle of genocide in the second world war. Addressing his top military advisers at the "wolf's lair" at Obersalzberg, Hitler set out his plans for the settlement of Poland after the successful completion of the military campaign (see p 1416).1 "Poland will be depopulated and settled with Germans," he said. Just as Genghis Khan had "sent millions of women and children into death knowingly and with a light heart," he had ordered the SS death's head formations to kill without mercy "many women and children of Polish origin and language." Only thus "can we gain the living space we need." And, referring to the lack of international condemnation of massacres of the Armenians in Turkey in the first world war, he went on to
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