He declared ominously,"...we are animated with an inexorable resolve to seize the Evil [the Jews] by the roots and to exterminate (auszurotten) it root and branch. To attain our aim we should stop at nothing, even if we must join forces with the Devil." Hitler was proclaiming, in stating his willingness to "join forces with the Devil," that he would do whatever was necessary, even adopt highly unconventional and tabooed means, in his quest to eliminate the Jews.
-Hitler's Willing Executioners Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by
Daniel Johah Goldhagen pg.134
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