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According to Andrew Nagorski ( 2007 ; The Greatest Battle ) Adolf Hitler had declared his intention to invade the USSR on 11 August 1939 to Carl Jacob Burckhardt, League of Nations Commissioner by saying, " Everything I undertake is directed against the Russians.

If the West is too stupid and blind to grasp this, then I shall be compelled to come to an agreement with the Russians, beat the West and then after their defeat turn against the Soviet Union with all my forces.

I need the Ukraine so that they can't starve us out, as happened in the last war.