As Oshima views the current situation in March 1942, the objectives of the German army are to seize the industries of European Russia, the raw materials of Ukraine and the oil fields of the Caucasus. To Oshima this means that “the vigor of Russia will dwindle greatly, the livelihood of her people will be threatened, and an internal revolution will spontaneously occur. Then the Stalin regime will crumple of its own weight. The threat of Communist Russia will be eliminated forever. That is how [Hitler] reasons.” Thus, Oshima declares, “There is no possibility of such a separate peace.”
