Hitler's Table Talk

586 RUSSIA'S STRENGTH
slot! How can they dare claim that they are furthering the
cause of justice when they whisper advice in the ears of criminals
and conduct their examinations in the most dubious manner!
Whenever I witness the disgusting performance I always feel—
here we have the master fox teaching the little fox the way to go.
In olden times it was the strolling player who was buried in
the public refuse-heap; to-day it is the lawyer who should be
buried there.
No one stands closer in mentality to the criminal than the
lawyer; and if you can see much difference between them, I
can't.
The only way to clean up this profession is to nationalise it;
and I think, incidentally, that it is scandalous that these people
should be entitled to call themselves "Doctor".
267 aand July 1942, after dinner
Russia's two main weapons—We beat time—Let us admire
Stalin—Adults and infants of the Ukraine—Contraception
should be encouraged—The danger of racial pressure
in the Eastern territories—Local population, the right
policy—German administration and the cockchafer
hunters.
The Soviets could have become a mortal danger to us, if they
had succeeded in undermining the military spirit of our
soldiers with the slogan of the German Communist Party:
"No more War!" For at the same time as they were trying by
Communist Party terrorism, by strikes, by their press, and by
every other means at their disposal to ensure the triumph of
pacifism in our country, the Russians were building up an
enormous army. Disregarding the namby-pamby utterances
about humanitarianism which they spread so assiduously in
Germany, in their own country they drove their workers to an
astonishing degree, and the Soviet worker was taught by means
of the Stakhanov system to work both harder and longer than
his counterpart in either Germany or the capitalist States. The
more we see of conditions in Russia, the more thankful we must
be that we struck in time. In another ten years there would
have sprung up in Russia a mass of industrial centres, inaccessible
to attack, which would have produced armaments on