you quote from macbeth, i am in blood, but should i wade no more.urning were as tedious to go. >> it is a mystery to people. the war was lost very early on. it was lost in december, 1941, when the blitzkrieg against russia collapsed. hitler acknowledges this in the war diary. no victory can be won. four days later, pearl harbor and he declares war on america. he has the ussr on one flank and the usa on the other, as well as the british empire arranged against him. then, he is obviously thinking, the war aim of dominating europe is over, but the war aim of killing the jews is still achievable. he sort of thought that was worth doing. in his last will and testament, just a few days before his suicide, he said, i will be thanked by future generations for purging europe of its jews. that cancer of mankind. he honestly thought he had done humanity a service. i don't understand that. >> have you read anything that argues that if he had not gone to russia, if he had not learned the lessons of napoleon, the war would have been different? >> the first law of