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    Excellent. That is the sort of context I was looking for that puts the quote in the relevant light. Commented Sep 18, 2013 at 14:06
  • The second reference isn't available for me. Also, do any of your references back up the claim in the last sentence (about having no knowledge of Hitler's intentions for genocide, and if he had known about it, would regard the holocaust as a bad thing)? Commented Sep 19, 2013 at 2:57
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    The second reference is a book quoting the same thing as the others. In 1940 hardly anybody outside the inner circle of the Nazis knew anything about the coming genocide. Commented Sep 19, 2013 at 3:34
  • @AndrewGrimm For example, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… claims, The sermons were reproduced and sent all over Germany to families, and to German soldiers on the Western and Eastern Fronts. ... The resulting local protests in Germany broke the secrecy which had hitherto surrounded the euthanasia program Aktion T4. Those sermons began in July 1941. Commented Sep 19, 2013 at 7:30