Donald Acheson
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On August 22, 1939, Adolf Hitler gave a secret speech to his top military advisers, outlining his plans for German settlement of Poland. The speech so shocked his audience that a copy was smuggled out to the British Embassy. What follows is the transcript, now in the files of the Foreign Office in London.
Acheson D. Hitler’s plans for genocide: a speech from 1939. Br Med J. 1996;313:1416.