TonyA: Thank you for your reasoned response to my previous perhaps a bit incontinent post. I have to confess that I appear to have committed the unforgiveable, unscholarly sin of having failed to check my sources. I read Mein Kampf, in English translation, at the age of 14 in 1946. That quotation so struck me that I memorised it and it has lived with me therefore for 63 years. Now I find you are right; I cannot locate it at the source where I could have sworn I got it. Perhaps I read it somewhere else at the same time, and confused the two sources. I can scarcely have invented it in such detail. But I agree with you now in having failed to locate it in MK — I should have thought Vol I Ch xi would have been the likeliest place; but I can't find it there, I must admit.

Thank you for admitting that, pragmatically & empirically, he might as well have said it as that was certainly, post-Wannsee, what he set out to do. But I am much ashamed of such a scholarly lapse nevertheless. Not that my main points are affected: but you will, I am confident, follow what I mean.