Remembering the operation taken immedietely by Einsatzgruppen in Poland, and various intelligentsia-actions etc, I would say that he really intended war of extermination.Boby wrote:The impression is that Hitler ordered a war of extermination against Poland (well, the occupation of this country was brutal, but *none* relation with this speech
Also, IIRC Hitler was using reference to Armenians in one of his earlier interviews.
See also wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_quote for more links and discussion (especially the talk page)