I have issued the command – and I'll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad – that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death-head formation in readiness – for the present only in the East – with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I have issued the command – and I'll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad – that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death-head formation in readiness – for the present only in the East – with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language." in the context of "Adolf Hitler, Obersalzberg Speech (22 August 1939), par. 3, as translated by Louis Paul Lochner, What About Germany (1942), pp. 11–12" to mean that wisdom is timeless.