Hitler's Table Talk

68 EUROPEANISATION OF THE STEPPE
But the first thing, above all, is to get rid of the Jew. Without
that, it will be useless to clean the Augean stables.
If Antonescu sets about the job in this manner, he'll be the
head of a thriving country, inwardly healthy and strong. For
this purpose he has a good peasantry (Hungary has nothing like
it) and natural riches. Moreover,''Rumania is a country with a
thinly scattered population.
43 17th October 1941, evening
SPECIAL GUESTS : REICH MINISTER DR. TODT AND GAULEITER
SAUCKEL
Expectations as regards the Eastern Territories—The
Ukraine in twenty years' time—Bread is won by the
sword—God only recognises power.
In comparison with the beauties accumulated in Central
Germany, the new territories in the East seem to us like a
desert. Flanders, too, is only a plain—but of what beauty!
This Russian desert, we shall populate it. The immense spaces
of the Eastern Front will have been the field of the greatest
battles in history. We'll give this country a past.
We'll take away its character of an Asiatic steppe, we'll
Européanise it. With this object, we have undertaken the construction
of roads that will lead to the southernmost point of the
Crimea and to the Caucasus. These roads will be studded along
their whole length with German towns, and around these towns
our colonists will settle.
As for the two or three million men whom we need to accomplish
this task, we'll find them quicker than we think. They'll
come from Germany, Scandinavia, the Western countries and
America. I shall no longer be here to see all that, but in
twenty years the Ukraine will already be a home for twenty
million inhabitants besides the natives. In three hundred years,
the country will be one of the loveliest gardens in the world.
As for the natives, we'll have to screen them carefully. The
Jew, that destroyer, we shall drive out. As far as the population
is concerned, I get a better impression in White Russia than in
the Ukraine.
We shan't settle in the Russian towns, and we'll let them fall