Richard Anderson wrote:
It might help if you would tell us exactly where and when he said this and where you saw it referenced. I spent the better part of three years in the German records regarding Wacht am Rhein when working on the ADCSB and then HLG and can recall nothing remotely resembling such a statement from Hitler.
Nothing remotely?
It seems hardly believable that during three years of research you have not found out that the motivation of the regroupment of forces from the Eastern Front for the Ardennes offensive was first and foremost political. Forgive me for the irony, but Churchill’s quote comes to mind: “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”
Ok, a hint: among many sources, you can read the essence of Hitler’s political argumentation in a speech held for division commanders on December 12 1944:
Hitler vor Divisionskommandeuren, 12.12.1944, in: Heiber, Helmuth (Hrsg.): Lagebesprächungen im Führershauptquartier. Protokollfragmente aus Hitlers militärischen Konferenzen 1942-1945. München 1964 S 291 f
In English: Heiber, Helmut (ed), Hitler and his Generals. Military conferences 1942-1945. The First Complete Stenographic Record of the Military Situation Conferences, from Stalingrad to Berlin, Greenhill, London, 2002
In this he basically says that the alliance of the opponents is unnatural, it is under severe stress and can disintegrate at any moment, and if the Ardennes operation succeded, the Allies would nolens volens see for themselves that they cannot stop the Bolshevist hordes without the help of the Wehrmacht.
A brief description of this reasoning can also be found for instance in Lars Lüdicke: „Hitlers Weltanschauung: Von »Mein Kampf« bis zum »Nero-Befehl«“. Paderborn 2016 S 174-176