Full marks to Genosse CL!
The quotation is from the English-language edition of “Signal”, a German propaganda magazine which appeared fortnightly from April 1940 to March 1945. Circulation peaked at 2.5 million copies per issue in 1943 and it was published in 20 different languages at one point.
My source is: S.L. Mayer, “The Best of Signal: Hitler’s Wartime Picture Magazine” (London, 1984). I made one small change to the text in order to confuse the issue, substituting “Russia” for “the Soviet Union”.
So whenever we hear establishment politicians advocating the unification of Europe, it is essential that we realise they are merely echoing the “nationalist and fascist right” of the 1940s.
Well, no actually. Damning by association is a technique that can only influence the very gullible. It has no place in rational debate.