The italicized passages were underlined by Haider. He was obviously impressed with Hitler’s reasoning. We are less inclined to that. But only for one reason. We know what happened to the German army in Russia; we know that, after having invaded Russia, Hitler lost the war. Yet in Russia, in 1941, he came very close to winning it. And what would have happened then? There was more to his reasoning than megalomania. Nor was it a return to the main objective of his life that he had set forth in Mein Kampf, the winning of the European east for the German people and their Reich.
