118.DBFP,Ser.3,VI,697-8,No.659; Watt, How War Came,435. Makins's report, later reproduced by Burckhardt in his book, did not include remarks by Hitler which the High Commissioner added in his memoirs, written more than twenty years later, claiming, somewhat remarkably, that they had not struck him at the time: 'Everything that I undertake is directed against Russia. If those in the West are too stupid and too blind to understand this, then I shall be forced to come to an understanding with the Russians to beat the West, and then, after its defeat, turn with all my concerted force against the Soviet Union. I need the Ukraine,so that no one will starve us out as they did in the last war'(Burckhardt,272; trans. Klaus Hildebrand, The Foreign Policy of the Third Reich, London,1973,88).