"There is only one task: To set about the Germanization of the land by bringing in Germans and to regard the indigenous inhabitants as Indians," Hitler said in 1941. He said at another point that year, "In this business I shall go straight ahead, cold-bloodedly … I don't see why a German who eats a piece of bread should torment himself with the idea that the soil that produces this bread has been won by the sword. When we eat wheat from Canada, we don't think about the despoiled Indians." On his right to lay claim to Ukraine's grain, Hitler joked, "We'll supply the Ukrainians with scarves, glass beads and everything that colonial peoples like."

XREF: Connects to settler-colonial logics where indigenous land occupation is framed as civilization; parallels with American westward expansion.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 885