"...one of Hitler's reasons for provoking this war was that it en abled him to accelerate the development in a manner that would have been unthinkable in peacetime. The remarkable thing about this process, however, is that it was by no means checked by such a shattering defeat as Stalingrad, and that the danger of losing the war altogether was only another in- citement to throw overboard all utilitarian considerations and make an all-out attempt to realize through ruthless total organization the goals of totalitarian racial ideology, no matter for how short a time."