The first one i think just double check
because it shows how you know this by saying he used quotes
In July 1940, just weeks after the German conquest of France and the Low Countries, Hitler decided to attack the Soviet Union<span>within the following year. On December 18, 1940, he signed Directive 21 (code-named Operation "Barbarossa"), the first operational order for the invasion of the </span>Soviet Union<span>.</span>