by Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler
Translated
from the Original Third Reich Book
“Die
Schutzstaffel als antibolschewistische Kampforganisation”
Table of Contents
Publisher’s
Forward
Bolshevism
Purim
Other Examples
The
French/Freemason Revolution
The Russian
Revolution
Our Folk
Germanic Law
The Divine
Order
The Right of
the Animal
Cultural Finds
Veneration of
Ancestors
Courage and
Strength
Knowledge of
Astronomy
The Oldest
Plough
The Alphabet
Our Folk’s
Tormented History
Hermann the
Cherusker
The Germanic
Secretary
Widukind’s
Desperate Battle
The Aleman
Battle
The Peasant
Wars
Our Virtues
and Faults
Our Own Fault
The Path to
Obedience
Service to the
Church and the Teutonic Order'
The State of
Friedrich II in Sicily
The Teutonic
Order’s State in East Prussia
The Prussian
Army
The Prussia of
the Old Fritz
The Wars of
Liberation1864, 1866
The World War
The Führer and
National Socialism
The
Schutzstaffel
Creation of
the Schutzstaffel
Knowledge of
the Value of Blood and Selection
Will to
Freedom and Fighting Spirit
Tests of
Achievement
Loyalty and
Honour
Obedience
The Marriage
Law
Victory of
Child
The Honour Law
of the SS-Man
Faith in God
Blood and Soil
Security
Service and Secret State Police
Bolshevism -
not a contemporary phenomenon
The
Schutzstaffel
Bolshevism
Today much
is said about Bolshevism. Most
people think Bolshevism is phenomenon that emerged during the present time.
Many even believe that Bolshevism - this Jewish
organized and led struggle of sub-humanity - is totally new in world
history.
We believe
it is important to establish that as long as there have been men on earth, the struggle between humans and sub-humans has
been the historical rule. This Jewish led war against the folks has
belonged to the natural course of life on our planet as long back as we can
see. One can comfortably say this struggle for life and death is as much a law
of nature as man’s fight against pestilence and the attack by pestilence
against the healthy body.
It is hence
necessary to study a few very clear examples
of the methods of their struggle from
the past to our present time in order to recognize the tactics of the Jewish-Bolshevik enemy.
Purim
The bible gives us one of the historical examples of the radical
annihilation of an Aryan folk by Bolshevik-Jewish methods. Read this
a part of Jewish history where it is written that the Jews were distributed
among the Persians, in all cities and villages and in the capitol Sufa. The
Aryan Persians recognized the danger posed by these Jews. The will to solve the
Jewish question in Persia was personified by Minister Haman. The king, who the
Bible calls Ahasveros but who was really Xeres, was separated from his Persian
wife Basthi by the extremely clever intrigue of the court Jews. The king was
influenced by Jewish girls, especially by the Jewish harlot Esther.
We read
how, against the will of the folk-oriented and racially-conscious Minister
Haman the elaborate Jewish intrigue ended with the unscrupulous and blinded
king delivering the loyal Minister Haman to the Jew Mardochei to be hanged.
This detestable practice is also seen later throughout history. Mardochei was
made a Vice-King. He issued his orders with that cold-blooded, sober and
pitiless calculation typical of Bolshevism. He had the most noble Persians and
all enemies of the Jews in the towns and cities murdered by Jews protected by a
king’s edict on a specific day. The Bible says 75,000 Persians were butchered
that day. This was crowned by a royal edict making the 14th and 15th
of the month of Adar a holiday. To this very day this holiday is celebrated as
Purim, the great Jewish victory festival.
It is
obvious that the ancient Persian folk never recovered from this blow. One can
see the entire tragedy in that this folk, struck and destroyed by Jewish
Bolshevism, did not only lose it high, pure religion of Zoroastrianism, but
also its native language. Only after two thousand years were German scholars
able to translate the ancient Persian language into German after painstaking,
scientific labour.
This is
always the path of Bolshevism: A folk’s leadership is cut down. It falls into
slavery: economic, scientific, cultural, spiritual, psychological and physical
slavery. The remnants of the folk, robbed of its own value and degenerated by
endless race-mixing, disappears within the historically short span of a few
centuries. Later one only knows that such a folk once existed.
Other Examples
How many other tragedies - completed or not - have occurred on this earth, we do not know. In many cases we
can just suspect that the eternal enemy of all of us, the Jew, had his bloody
hand in the game in one way or another. Throughout the ages we see the
executioner’s sword fall again and again as in Cannstadt and Verdun. We see the
burning stakes where tens of thousands were martyred - the mutilated bodies of
the mothers and girls of our folk burned to ashes. In our mind’s eye we see the
tribunals of the inquisition that depopulated Spain just like the Thirty Years
War that in the course of one lifetime reduced our blooming German folk from 24
million to a half-starved remnant of four million.
The French/Freemason Revolution
Now I pass
over to more recent times for the
sake of a certain European completeness. the
methods of the terror regime of the French revolution reached full-scale
Bolshevism in the Jacobins and in the time of the law “for the removal of the
suspicious”: the slaughter of the blonde-haired and blue-eyed, of the best sons
of the French folk. For the sake of truth it must be mentioned that the French Revolution
was solely the revolution of the order of the Freemasons, this distinguished
Jewish organization. The Freemasons have not only admitted their “glorious”
revolution, rather they praise it as their triumph in every lodge throughout
the world right down to the most harmless German lodge.
The Russian Revolution
I now come
to the Russian revolution. It is
not my task to once again repeat the dates. Instead, the important thing in
this context is the reference to the methods.
First the discontent of Russia’s socially suffering folk is
systematically exploited and used for revolutionary propaganda. A number of
Russian leaders who wished to abolish serfdom, especially Minister Stolypin,
are eliminated before they can carry out their reforms for Russia’s benefit by Jewish anarchists. All possible
means are used to AGITATE RUSSIA INTO WAR AGAINST GERMANY. Remember the role of
JEWISH/FREE-MASON ACTIVITY to start the World War.
The next
phase of the Bolshevik revolution then starts in Russia. Freemasonry calls this
THE SHIFT FROM THE “SYSTEM OF THE YELLOW FLAG” TO THE “SYSTEM OF THE RED FLAG”.
In parliamentarian jargon: rule passes form the democratic- bourgeois parties
to the moderate socialist party - by us the social democrats and over there the
Mensheviks. At their head stands the Jew Kerenski, a man whose treatment is a
classic example of Aryan kindness. His Jewish mother - if I may here insert
this instructive episode - had been sentenced to death because of involvement
in anarchist attacks, but she had been pardoned by the father of the last Czar,
because she was pregnant with Kerenski.
Precisely
this man, who owed his life to Aryan kindness, deposes the last Czar and paves
the way for Bolshevism.
But there
were still too many forces of resistance left in Russia. This folk is again
cold-bloodedly agitated into an offensive. Once again, Aryan Russians are sent
to the butcher’s block. The final dissolution is made possible. There is
another change, to use the Freemason’s jargon, the “system of the red flag” is
replaced with the last system, the “system of the black flag”. In
parliamentarian terms: rule passes from the moderate socialist party into the
hands of the radical socialist party, the Bolsheviks. Nothing more stands in
the way. With the full power of the state the Jews complete the radical
slaughter of the good blood that resists them. All the others bow in fear and
terror. One could quote from the Book of Esther where it says: many Persians
become Jews out of fear of the Jews! In the system of the black flag ALL OF THE
NON-JEWS OF WEAK CHARACTER DEFECT TO THE JEWS. They become executioner helpers
and helpful spirits, informers and spies against their own people.
The
perfection of these methods of extermination can be seen from the TACTICS OF THE
RUSSIAN SECRET POLICE. Again and again, they THEMSELVES systemically ORGANIZE
REBELLIONS WITH KEY AGENTS against their own regime in order to again and again
find the leaders who would participate in such an uprising and neutralize them.
Every resistance leader - every one in this tortured Aryan folk still able to
think or even become a leader against the Bolsheviks and Jews - falls.
If you
examine the RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, you will find many parallels to the German
revolution of 1918. The only difference here was that a benevolent God, a kind
Providence created a DAM and summoned resistance forces. At the right time, in
1919, ADOLF HITLER started his work.
Looking at
everything, you can add countless more evidence, minor and major, for this
BLOOD PICTURE OF BOLSHEVISM IN THE HISTORY OF NATIONS.
I hardly
think you will disagree with me. I ask you to look - not at specifics with
exaggerated Aryan/ German objectivity - rather at the GENERAL LINE. You will
see that - in JEWS, SUB-HUMANS and their AUXILIARY ORGANIZATIONS - we are
confronted by skilfully opponents. They are clever and capable in the
organization of destruction. They know how to use every opportunity and
possibility, in the saloon or in the chamber of the state minister or monarch.
They master assassination, poison, direction of lethal steel, starvation of
entire undesired population segments, intrigue, defamation of individual
leaders, playing personalities against each other (who should be friends to the
death), the fight on the street and in the comers of bureaucracy, uprooting the
peasant and misuse of religion. They realize better than we that there is no
key to peace in these battles, rather only victor and vanquished and that
defeat in this conflict means the death of a folk.
You will
also note that this enemy has won not a small number victories. He could write
THE NAMES OF THE NATIONS DESTROYED BY HIM on his FLAG OF DESTRUCTION.
All of you
should never forget that these observations deal not just with the Bolshevism
of the past and present, but also of the future.
Our Folk
HOW GREAT
OUR FOLK WAS, how lofty its thought was and how perfect its jurisprudence was,
all this is always revealed to me BY THE FOLLOWING FACT:
Germanic Law
ANCIENT
GERMANIC LAW prevented any unauthorized individual from destroying anything in
nature that is holy for all men and created by God. Until relatively recent
times it was forbidden in Germanic settlements to cut down a tree within the
village without the agreement of the other peasants. If a tree was cut down,
this was tied to the obligation to plant three new young trees.
The Divine
Order
This
concept of law included the holy conviction of our ancestors that everything in
life and on earth was created by God and had a soul. SILLY, MALICIOUS AND
STUPID PEOPLE have twisted this into the FABLE that our ANCESTORS WORSHIPPED
GODS AND TREES. No, according to ancient knowledge and ancient teachings, they
were convinced of the DIVINE ORDER of this whole world, of all of the plant and
animal kingdoms.
The Right
of the Animal
Only the
Aryan, Germanic man, could include animals - who have no rights in countless
other lands of this world - in his jurisprudence. Here, too, we find remnants
into the late Middle Ages. Even in cases where the damage done by animals was
obvious, for example a plague of rats or mice, we know from historical accounts
that the city council could not without further ado order the extermination of
these small, but for humans destructive animals. For they were anchored in the
divine order and had been created by God. So they were put on trial, and the
decent German even provided the small defendant with a defence attorney. Only
after legal proceedings and proof that the small rodent had harmed the order
and harmony of this piece of earth could the campaign against them be ordered.
Today we
might laugh at these ancient, by our standards childish views. It be better for
us men without piety of the modem time to bow our heads to the depth and
greatness of this world-view, of this deeply rooted faith in God and in this
order based on God.
Cultural Finds
I may show
you other pictures. When we DIG INTO GERMAN EARTH here and there along the edge
of the field, we find, just a few hand-widths beneath the surface, PRECIOUS
COPPER, SILVER AND GOLD PIECES. The quality of their workmanship, artistry and
classical beauty is hardly achievable by us modem, technologically so advanced
men.
Veneration of Ancestors
We stand in
front of a GIANT STONE GRAVEYARD and call up the thought within us about people
in distant millennia before us. They were not miserly like us, who build
cemeteries that have to be cleared after a few generations, the bones put into
a chest and then demolished. Rather OUR ANCESTORS BUILT A MEMORIAL FOR
MILLENNIA, before which we today reverently stand. Perhaps the idea again dawns
on many of us today that the veneration of the ancestors is a source of
strength for a folk, THAT EACH ONE WHO REVERES HIS ANCESTORS ALSO MEASURES HIS
OWN GREATNESS AND HIS OWN IMPORTANCE WITH THE CORRECT MEASURING STICK.
Courage and Strength
Or I can
again present the Roman writers’ description of the first tribes entering Roman
history, the Cimbem and Teutons. They were large, very strong and beautiful.
Their attack was impetuous and their inexhaustible strength smashed one Roman
army after another until they fell victim to our ancestors’ mistakes. Then they
were defeated and annihilated by Roman discipline and military order.
Knowledge of Astronomy
I can offer
you a PEACEFUL image. When we today look at a map and draw in the old
settlements, we see that they form a harmonious pattern far beyond what is
visible by the naked eye. They were organized with an unprecedented knowledge
of astronomy unsurpassed to this day. They were founded by men with the deepest
reverence for the divine being who created these stars as well as our own.
The Oldest Plough
Another
peaceful example is the PLOUGH, our folk’s oldest weapon, that is known to have
been drawn through our soil five thousand years ago with an unprecedented,
sensible order of the cultivation including crop rotation.
We wish to
remember and stress that we did not acquire the plough from others, rather that
THE ROMANS ADOPTED THE IMPROVED PLOUGH FROM OUR GERMANIC ANCESTORS.
The Alphabet
A final
example is the RUNIC ALPHABET, the mother of all writing symbols for probably
most folks. The earliest ancestors of the Aryan/German folk consciously
conceived and created it. We still have a few specimens from prehistory thought
to have been devoured by nature, namely the cliff writing. We know Karl the Frank
collected countless other writings, but his Jewized son Ludwig the Pious in
union with an intolerant church burned them almost without exception.
Our Folks’ Tormented History
That was,
briefly summarized, OUR FOLK.
But when we
view THE HISTORY OF THIS FOLK, we see for the past 2000 years the most
TORMENTED HISTORY that a folk - blessed with all gifts of spirit and body -
could have had.
We ask the
great question WHY?
Here, too,
I wish to limit myself to just a few examples from the many in order to then
attempt an answer.
Hermann the Cherusker
THE
LIBERATOR OF GERMANIA from Roman rule was, as is known, HERMANN THE CHERUSKER.
He was killed by men of his own clan, of his own blood, after his father-in-law
delivered his own daughter, the liberator’s wife, to the Romans.
The Germanic Secretary
I remind
you of the last few centuries of the Roman Empire. Caesar’s closest co-worker
was a Germanic man who organized Gaul for Rome. From that time onward, the splendour
and greatness of the Roman Empire was again and again secured by Germanic
creativity, Germanic leadership genius, Germanic leadership ability and
Germanic soldiery serving the decayed and racially doomed Roman state against
its own blood.
Widukind’s Desperate Battle
I refer to
WIDUKIND’S DESPERATE BATTLE that was doomed, because the nobles of his own
tribe and of his own folk, people of the same blood, could not unite and later
stabbed their duke in the back.
The Aleman Battle
I refer to
the above mentioned ALEMAN BATTLE that was lost, because the so free Germanic
men could not bear the sight of their dukes, men of their same blood, on
horseback, because that would make them taller than the others.
The Peasant Wars
I finally refer
to the PEASANT WARS where a heroic struggle was accompanied by great disorder,
splintering and lack of discipline. The pure desire and the wisely conceived
vision of a German state - thought up by the best minds of the peasantry - sank
into the grave along with the bloody corpses of incurable, foolish Germanic men
after a lost battle. At the end only the tragic and insightful wish remained
that the grandchildren would fight more successfully.
Our Virtues and Faults
Certainly,
ONE OF OUR BEST VIRTUES IS OUR MIGHTY WILL FOR FREEDOM! Certainly, THE
SELECTION OF OUR BLOOD is THE BEST BLOOD that remains preserved to this day as
the goodness of our race. However, both alone are NOT JUST INCENTIVE AND DRIVE
toward cultural greatness and heroic struggle, RATHER ALSO OBSTACLES TO THE
CREATION OF A GREAT STATE OF ALL GERMANS and hence also the cause of all the
defeats we have suffered throughout our entire history, century after century.
The
EXCESSIVE VALUATION of the value of the equally good blood, of the PROUD SELF,
made it impossible for a nobleman to obey somebody else, for a duke to remain
loyal to another, for one to subordinate himself to another. Germanic men of
the same blood never made it possible for their own leaders and rulers - who no
doubt existed, from Widukind to Florian Geyer - to create a German state. In
the final analysis empire after empire fell into ruin because of these faults -
the empires of the Goths, Vandals, Burgundians, Alemans and others.
When
Germans could not create a state based on Germanic spirit, OTHER GERMANS forced
them with a mailed fist to accept a state based on foreign spirit - with
bloodshed, tears and misery.
Each time
we see the same story: DISOBEDIENCE, NON-SUBORDINATION, UNDERESTIMATION OF THE
ENEMY AND AN UNREALISTIC DESIRE FOR CONDITIONS, for political situations and
factors THAT SIMPLY DID NOT EXIST. Again and again an enemy in whatever form
confronted us who calculated coldly with the realities of political conflict on
this earth. He advanced step by step and again and again defeated us - despite
lower quality, inferior blood and poorer culture.
Our Own Fault
THUS HAS
OUR FOLK - WE WISH TO ASCERTAIN THIS FOR US GERMANS - TRAVELED THIS DIFFICULT
PATH FOR THE LAST 2000 YEARS THROUGH OUR OWN FAULT. Do not reproach any enemy
because he has defeated us and demanded our blood. For the law of God’s vast
world, the law of this earth and the law of nations does not calculate who
meant well in his big heart, rather it counts who triumphs.
Many will
SILENTLY AND RESENTFULLY RAISE THE QUESTION: Why this terrible determination of
fault and mistakes despite all the virtues? CAN WE HAVE FAITH FOR THE FUTURE?
We wish to
here freely and openly state that nothing strengthens our FAITH IN OUR FOLK’S
AND OUR BLOOD’S FUTURE like the fact that, despite all the mistakes and despite
all the suffering, our folk still lives and has today again achieved greatness.
We BELIEVE in the destiny and in the TASK OF OUR BLOOD. In the history of the
past two thousand years, we see not just defeat and misery, rather the path to
learning that is necessary for our own preservation.
The Path to
Obedience
Service to the Church and the Teutonic Order
AT THE
BEGINNING OF THIS MILLENNIUM, in accordance with the church’s command, almost
all NOT FIRST BORN SONS of the best German clans entered the SERVICE OF THE
CHURCH as priests and church officials. Many took up the cross and went on the
crusades of German blood far eastward into the desert sand. Some of these
crusading knights were organized in various knightly orders as knight-priests.
They brought with them German courage, German leadership and German
incorruptibility. They learned obedience, subordination and state authority -
itself even older than the church - in the order of the Roman Catholic Church.
The State of Frederick II in Sicily
This
knightly order participated in the creation of the FIRST MODERN STATE, BASED ON
PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION and authoritarian obedience, that was
founded by Frederick II in Sicily. Filled with this knowledge, the order was
transplanted to the German East by the politically wise priest-nobleman Hermann
von Salza in the first half of the 13 century. There it founded the order’s
German state in the east so well known to you.
The Teutonic Order‘s State in East Prussia
For the
first time it was then easy to INTRODUCE OBEDIENCE INTO GERMAN TERRITORY. In
addition to the absolute rule of the Christian religion came the fact that
knights of the racially best German blood - men from the noblest clans and
proven in combat - formed a ruling class over folks and mixed- bloods racially
not equal to our folk. The values of achievement and personality stood next to
obedience to the church.
The Prussian Army
From this
EAST PRUSSIA, that was taken over by the Electors of Brandenburg as the Kings
of Prussia, the PRINCIPLES OF ORGANIZATION of administration, of cleanliness
and above all of unconditional obedience were adopted by Prussia. The PRUSSIAN
ARMY with its mercenaries became inside Germany the FIRST GREAT SCHOOL OF
ABSOLUTE DISCIPLINE. Back then this discipline was not based solely on the
noblest motives of the human soul, rather indeed in many cases on the might of
the stronger, the state, on gold and livelihood, and on fear of the sergeant’s
whip.
The Prussia of the Old Fritz
That
continued for a time until a heroic spirit, THE GREAT PRUSSIAN KING, OLD FRITZ,
led this disciplined army in three great wars. It is probably true that even in
the last battles of the third Silesian War the Prussian officer, pitilessly
trained for obedience in the cadet corps, stood with his whip behind the
musketeer. Nonetheless, this obedience was al- ready ennobled by the love for
the leader, by the love for the evolving Prussian fatherland, by the honour of
being able to be not just a mercenary, rather a hero of this heroic Prussian
army. For the first time a melody is heard in this unconditional obedience: let
us be good children of our country.
The Wars of Liberation
The next
step, after a terrible defeat, came with the PEOPLES ARMY OF THE WARS OF
LIBERATION OF 1812 TO 1815. The bourgeois son and the student already felt honoured
to be able to serve with voluntary obedience as militiamen and as soldiers in
the Prussian army. History then proceeds with faster steps. More and more, the
concepts of freedom and honour, as well as of obedience, come close to the
people.
1864,1866
The
Sleswig-Holsteiners, Bavarians, Württembergers
and other
southern Germans are freedom- loving peoples who have lived in their lands
since the earliest of times. Their development was similar in many aspects and
not always straight. But with the army of this spirit PRUSSIA could not only
conquer and defeat them in 1864 and 1866, rather it could win them inwardly for
the order and the obedience of the
German
Reich and integrate them with inner conviction.
The World War
History
advances another half century to the WORLD WAR. Honour, freedom and obedience
have drawn even closer together. TWO MILLION OF THE BEST GERMANS REPORTED NOT
ONLY FOR THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM, BUT ALSO JUST AS WILLINGLY FOR SERVICE IN THE
ORDER OF THE BEST ORGANIZATION, OF THE GERMAN ARMY.
For four
and a half years we were forged. Now again, fate showed that we had not yet
learned everything. Fate showed it to those who had to command. They often
forgot that final obedience at the time of the final, most difficult trial -
when crowns, symbols and the external insignia of state authority fade in need,
mud and misery - will only be given to their leaders by a folk of the same
blood. Even then, it comes only if honour, freedom and obedience stand in
harmony. It showed to those who had to obey that any disobedience, even if it
appears justified by wounded honour and supposedly violated freedom, always
strikes its own master. It is a violation of loyalty, the first sin of the fathers,
and it plunges the own blood and hence the disobedient person into the abyss.
The Führer and
National Socialism
Any now the
- hopefully final - school of our path toward obedience began for our German
folk that was coming apart at the seams. FATE SENT US THE FÜHRER. Himself an obedient soldier of the great German army,
he carried the entire knowledge of freedom, honour and blood value of our folk
and took us into his school. In FIFTEEN YEARS OF STRUGGLE AND VICTORY he
trained first a few, then more and more of the men who loved freedom the most,
the selection of the most warrior-like German blood, as NATIONAL SOCIALISTS.
Let me today define this concept: AS MEN WHO ARE CONSCIOUSLY BEARERS OF THE
VALUE OF OUR RACE AND OF OUR BLOOD who know blood is the most necessary
prerequisite for culture and greatness. At the same time he fanned the flames
of WILL FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR even among the most fanatical, giving them even
more energy and even more unbending will. Finally, he bonded the strengths of
equal blood value, mighty will to freedom and a very keenly felt sense of honour
with a voluntary - and hence even more OBLIGATORY - OBEDIENCE that stems from
blood, honour and desire for freedom.
I believe
one can again look with these eyes at German history and the self-caused path
of our folk’s suffering. IT REVEALS A PURPOSE ACCORDING TO THE ETERNAL, GOOD
LAW OF THIS WORLD. THIS IS AT THE SAME TIME AN 1NDI- CATION AND AN OBLIGATION.
OUR FOLK DOES NOT STAND AT THE END, RATHER AT THE BEGINNING OF ITS MISSION AND
OF THE TASK GIVEN TO IT AMONG THE FOLKS OF THIS WORLD.
The Schutzstaffel
Now I come
to the Schutzstaffel itself. It is a part of this National Socialist German
Workers Party created and trained by Adolf Hitler. Within the movement of the Führer, it has received ITS SPECIAL TASK FOR THE PROTECTION OF
THE REICH internally.
Creation of the Schutzstaffel
The FÜHRER issued the order for the CREATION OF THE SCHUTZSTAFFEL
in 1929 and another one in January 29 to expand this formation. It was clear to
us in 1929 that this Schutzstaffel could only fulfil its task if it was based
to the highest degree on the principles and guidelines established by the
movement’s Führer as well as on the virtues
indoctrinated into it.
Knowledge of the Value of Blood and Selection
The FIRST
GUIDELINE was and is for us the KNOWLEDGE OF THE VALUE OF BLOOD AND SELECTION.
This prerequisite was valid in 1929 and it will be valid as long as there is a
Schutzstaffel.
We
proceeded like a breeder who wishes to purify an old, good strain that has
become mixed and degraded. First, he visits the field for the so-called seed
selection. Initially, on the basis of external characteristics, we rejected
those people we felt were unusable for building the Schutzstaffel.
Selection
concentrated on those who came closest to the physical ideal of the
predominantly Nordic man. External characteristics like size and racial
appearance played and still play a role.
I do not
have to tell you that this process was improved and tightened over the years as
we gained experience. I also ask you to be convinced that we have COMPLETE
CLARITY that this SELECTION can never come to a STANDSTILL. Year after year,
our requirements become stricter as Germany’s racial hygiene and the growing
understanding of blood and breeding elevates German humanity.
The
requirements for our descendants in a hundred or more years must demand much
more from the individual than can be the case today. We also know that the
selection based on external characteristics - today done with genealogies and
examinations - can only be the initial, the very first criteria. Throughout the
years of life in the SCHUTZSTAFFEL this SELECTION PROCESS must be continued.
This must be followed by the elimination of those unsuited to us because of
character, will power or emotion and hence blood.
Through
laws we have given ourselves we wish to ensure for all future that NOT EVERY
SON OF AN SS FAMILY REGISTERED IN THE CLAN BOOK OF THE SS BECOMES AN SS
CANDIDATE OR EVEN CLAIMS THE RIGHT TO BECOME AN SS- MAN. We wish to ensure that
always only some of the sons of these families are accepted by us as SS- men.
The selection and the blood flow of the best blood of the entire folk must
constantly occur in the Schutzstaffel. - This is what I have to say for now
about the principle of selection.
Will to Freedom and Fighting Spirit
THE SECOND
GUIDELINE AND VIRTUE that we endeavour to promote in the Schutzstaffel as its
eternal characteristic for all future is THE WILL TO FREEDOM AND FIGHTING
SPIRIT.
Tests of Achievement
We have
always had the ambition to be the best in every fight and in every position. We
take pleasure in every man and every formation whose achievements and fighting
spirit equals or surpasses our own. For everyone who equals us is a gain for
Germany. He is also proof for us that we had too little energy and that we must
double our efforts in order to purify our will to fight and to steel our
hardness against ourselves.
The most
difficult school - that each of us must attend our whole life - and TESTS OF
ACHIEVEMENT - that each of us must pass year after year - ensure that the
courage and fighting spirit of each individual, above all of the LEADERSHIP
CORPS, are put to the test again and again. These annual tests will
simultaneously guard against the complacency in our ranks that has so often
become a lethal threat to the German folk. Furthermore, a community that
demands physical and will power achievements at regular intervals up to old age
will remain simple. In the long run it will automatically reject things that
may indeed be nice for a comfortable life, but that weaken our strength for
Germany and that could undermine the fighting spirit.
Loyalty and Honour
THE THIRD
GUIDELINE AND VIRTUE that is necessary for the development and essence of the
Schutzstaffel are the concepts LOYALTY AND HONOUR. They are set forth in two
statements. ONE STATEMENT WAS GIVEN US BY THE FÜHRER: “MY HONOUR IS LOYALTY!” The other comes from old
German right: “ALL HONOUR COMES FROM LOYALTY.”
Many
things, we teach the SS-man, can be forgiven on this earth, but one thing
never, namely disloyalty. Whoever breaks loyalty separates himself form our
community. For loyalty is a matter of the heart, never of the mind. The mind
might resist. That is often harmful, but never incorrigible. But the heart must
always beat the same. If it stops, the man dies - just like a folk dies if it
breaks loyalty. Here we mean loyalty of every kind: loyalty to the Führer and hence to the German/Germanic folk, its will and
its kind; loyalty to the blood, to our ancestors and our grandchildren; loyalty
to our clan; loyalty to the comrade; and loyalty to the irrefutable laws of
decency, cleanliness and chivalry. One does not only sin against loyalty and honour
if one passively allows his or the Schutzstaffel’s honour to be tarnished. He
sins against it above all if he does not respect the honour of others, if he
mocks things that are sacred to others or if he does not stand up, manly and
decently, for the absent, the weak and the defenceless.
Obedience
THE FOURTH
GUIDELINE AND VIRTUE valid for us is OBEDIENCE, the unconditional obedience
that stems from lofty volunteerism, from the service to our world-view. We are
ready to make any, absolutely any sacrifice of pride, of outward honour or of
other things that are dear and precious to us person-
ally. This
obedience does not hesitate even once, rather it unconditionally follows every
order that comes from the Führer or from any
proper superior. This obedience remained silent in the period of struggle when
the will to freedom wanted to scream out. This obedience demanded watchful
senses directed at the enemy - without moving a finger unless ordered to do so.
It also meant unconditional obedience on the attack, even if he perhaps felt in
his heart that he was not able to do so.
We are
honest enough that WE DO NOT CLAIM THAT EVERY ONE OF US, DOWN TO THE LAST MAN,
HAS FULLY COMPREHENDED ALL OF THESE LAWS. But we believe we can say that for
the most part the Schutzstaffel has for the past six years assembled according
to these laws, that it has been built on them and that it lives by them. We
know that we must absorb more and more of these virtues each year, making them
the self-evident property of each SS-man. We are convinced that years from now,
sooner or later, whenever fate decides and the first generation of this
Schutzstaffel is no longer there, we will be able to pass along these virtues
as a complete heritage and as the best tradition to those who become SS-men
after us.
The Marriage Law
In
accordance with these guidelines and virtues we have given ourselves laws and
established the life of our community and set the path for the distant future.
The first law was established in 1931 as the SS LAW REQUIRING MARRIAGE AND
ENGAGEMENT PERMISSION for each SS-man. We have drawn the CONSEQUENCES from the
RECOGNITION OF THE VALUE OF BLOOD. We know it would be useless to collect men
of racial selection without thinking of the clan. We do not wish to make the
mistakes of the soldier and other male organization that may endure for
centuries but then perish, because the blood flow of breeding and the tradition
of the clan are lacking. We know from deepest conviction that a community can
only succeed in pointing the way to the future if it has reverence for the
ancestors to the earliest times and if it lives with the conviction of the
folk’s eternal origins. We know that only when the recognition of blood is
interpreted as a holy legacy - and that a racially pure clan must be passed
along - a race and a folk can have eternal life. We are permeated by the conviction
that only the GENERATION THAT IS BEDDED BETWEEN ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS
grasps the CORRECT MEASURE for its task and for its obligation and the
MINUTENESS OF THE INDIVIDUAL’S OWN, MORTAL SELF.
Victory of Child
We have
learned that only the man with this conviction learns modesty even in times of
success and avoids the mistakes of over-confidence and arrogance. Likewise,
only such men can bear times of greatest distress with the same iron calm they
showed in times of good fortune, living in Spartan simplicity. We teach our
SS-men - beyond the marriage law and proper mate selection - that our whole
struggle, the death of two million in the World War, the political struggle of
the past fifteen years and the expansion of our Wehrmacht to protect our borders,
would all be useless and in vain, if THE VICTORY OF GERMAN SPIRIT IS NOT
FOLLOWED BY THE VICTORY OF THE GERMAN CHILD.
We have
made it one of our tasks to do more than talk, rather to proceed through deed
and example in our own ranks. We will today and in the future impress on our
men that the most holy and valuable person of our folk is the mother who is
conscious of her sacred duty, and that the German child is the most precious
thing.
The Honour Law of the SS-Man
Another law
established by the SS on November 9, 1935 that EACH SS-MAN HAS THE RIGHT AND
THE DUTY TO DEFEND HIS HONOUR WITH A WEAPON. The law simultaneously defines who
is a SS-man in the sense of the SS order. Each SS member must serve as a
trainee for 1 14 years, give his SS-oath to the Führer, honourably perform his Work Service and Wehrmacht
service and be at least 21 years old. He is then presented with the SS-dagger
and is accepted into the SS-order as a full-fledged SS-man. EACH OF US IS AN
SS-MAN, whether enlisted man or officer or Reichsführer. We have given
ourselves this honour law, because we are convinced that only the man who knows
that he can one day anywhere be taken to account for each of his deeds and
words will grasp the final meaning of our community and learn to serve his folk
as an irreproachable, clean soldier of life. For this honour law obligates him
to preserve his own honour just like it demands others to respect him. It
imposes principle, goodness and generosity toward his comrades, his countrymen
and his fellow human beings as a duty.
Now I may
take a stand on a few problems. First: In a BOOKLET entitled “50 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS FOR THE SS-MAN”, the FIRST QUESTION is: “WHAT IS YOUR OATH?”
Faith in
God
The answer
is: “WE SWEAR TO YOU, ADOLF HITLER, AS FÜHRER AND CHANCELLOR OF THE GERMAN REICH, LOYALTY AND
COURAGE. We promise you and the superiors designated by you obedience unto
death. So help us GOD!”
The second
question is: “SO YOU BELIEVE IN A GOD?”
The answer
is: “YES, I BELIEVE IN A GOD!”
The third
question is: “WHAT DO YOU THINK OF A PERSON WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE IN GOD?”
The answer
is: “I CONSIDER HIM ARROGANT, MEGALOMANIAC AND DUMB. HE IS NOT SUITED FOR US.”
I have
informed you of these three questions and answers in order to CLEARLY PRESENT
OUR STAND ON RELIGION. Be assured that we would not be able to form such an
ironclad corps, if we did not have conviction and faith in a God who stands
over us, who has created us, our fatherland, our folk and the earth, and who
has sent us our Führer.
We are
piously CONVINCED that IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ETERNAL LAWS OF THIS EARTH WE
MUST STAND BY EVERY DEED, EVERY WORD AND EVERY THOUGHT. Everything that our
mind thinks up, our tongue speaks and our hand carries out does not stop with
its execution, rather it is a cause that will have an effect, an inescapable
course that will return to us and our folk as a blessing or as a curse. BELIEVE
ME, PEOPLE WITH THIS STANCE ARE ANYTHING BUT ATHEISTS. WE REFUSE TO ALLOW
OURSELVES TO BE SLANDERED AS ATHEISTS - THROUGH MISUSE OF THE TERM PAGAN -
SIMPLY BECAUSE WE AS A COMMUNITY DO NOT EMBRACE A PARTICULAR DENOMINATION OR
DOGMA OR DEMAND THIS FROM ANY OF OUR MEN. We allow ourselves the right and the
freedom to draw a SHARP AND DISTINCT LINE BETWEEN RELIGIOUS/CHURCH/
DENOMINATIONAL ACTIVITY AND POLITICAL/WORLD-VIEW SOLDIERY, and we will fiercely
combat any violation. Likewise we teach our men - despite much justified
outrage and many bad experiences that our folk has had in this area in the past
- to respect everything THAT IS HOLY TO ANY FOLK COMRADE - due to his education
and conviction - WITHOUT ANY INSULT IN WORD OR DEED.
Blood and Soil
THE SECOND
REALIZATION I present to you, German peasants, as Reichsführer SS who is
himself a peasant in blood and in essence. THE CONCEPT OF BLOOD REPRESENTED BY
THE SCHUTZSTAFFEL FROM THE BEGINNING WOULD BE DOOMED TO DEATH, IF IT WAS NOT
INSEPARABLY TIED TO THE CONVICTION OF THE VALUE AND THE HOLINESS OF THE SOIL.
From the beginning the main office for race and settlement has set down the
concept of “blood soil” in its name in a different formulation, but with the
same meaning. I an assure you that it is NO COINCIDENCE that the REICH PEASANT
LEADER of the German Reich has belonged to the SS for years and as an Obergruppenführer is CHIEF OF THIS RACE AND
SETTLEMENT MAIN OFFICE. It is also no coincidence that I am a peasant and that
I belong to the Reich Peasant Council. Neither peasants nor SS-men belong to
the type of people who superfluously say a lot of nice words. It can be plainly
and clearly said that, as it was in the past, so will it remain in the future.
WHERE ADOLF HITLER’S PEASANTS STAND, THEY WILL ALWAYS HAVE THE SCHUTZSTAFFEL AT
THEIR SIDE AS THEIR MOST FAITHFUL FRIEND. Likewise we know that WHERE ADOLF
HITLER’S SCHUTZSTAFFEL STANDS, THE GERMAN PEASANT STANDS AT ITS SIDE AS BEST
COMRADE AND FRIEND. So it is today and so it will be for all the future.
Security Service and Secret State Police
I know
there are many PEOPLE in Germany WHO FEEL ILL WHEN THEY SEE THIS BLACK UNIFORM.
We understand this and we do not expect that we will be loved by all too many.
We should and we will respect all who hold Germany dear. Those who have a bad
conscience toward the Führer and the
nation should fear us. For these people we have built an organization called
SECURITY SERVICE. As the SS we also PROVIDE THE MEN FOR SERVICE IN THE SECRET
STATE POLICE. We will constantly fulfil our task of being the guarantor of Germany’s
security internally just like the German Wehrmacht guarantees the protection of
the honour, greatness and peace of the Reich externally. WE WILL MAKE SURE THAT
NEVER AGAIN IN GERMANY, EUROPE’S HEART, THE JEWISH-BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION OF SUB-HUMANITY
IS IGNITED FROM WITHIN OR BY EMISSARIES FROM OUTSIDE. WE WILL BECOME A PITILESS
EXECUTIONER’S SWORD FOR ALL OF THESE FORCES - WHOSE EXISTENCE AND ACTIVITY ARE
KNOWN TO US - ON THE DAY OF EVEN THE SLIGHTEST ATTEMPT, BE IT TODAY OR IN
DECADES OR IN CENTURIES.
Bolshevism - Not a Contemporary Phenomenon
I return to
the beginning and wish to again stress that BOLSHEVISM IS NOT A CONTEMPORARY
PHENOMENON that can be debated out of existence or thought away because we wish
that. We know him, the Jew, the people comprised of the refuse of all peoples
and nations of this planet, upon who it has stamped its Jewish blood kind. Its
wish is world domination, its desire is destruction, its will is extermination,
its religion is godlessness and its idea is Bolshevism. We do not underestimate
him, because we believe in the divine mission of our folk and we believe in our
again resurrected strength through Adolf Hitler’s leadership and work.
The Schutzstaffel
We stand
and have grown within this resurrected folk as the SCHUTZSTAFFEL, founded on
the Führer’s order. Although I tried today to describe the organization,
foundation and task of the SS to you, no one will understand us unless they try
to inwardly with their blood and with their heart. IT CANNOT BE EXPLAINED WHY
WE, SO SMALL IN NUMBER, ROUGHLY TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN WITHIN THE GERMAN
FOLK, HAVE THIS STRENGTH WITHIN US. It cannot be logically explained why today
each of us who wears the black uniform, regardless where he may be, is carried
by the strength of this our community. Be it on the saddle of a race horse,
fencing in the gym, serving as an official, carrying stones as a construction
worker, holding a high government office, doing service as a soldier, creating
works of German spirit or standing his ground anywhere like a man, perhaps
unseen.
EACH OF US
KNOWS THAT HE DOES NOT STAND ALONE, RATHER THIS UNPRECEDENTED STRENGTH OF TWO
HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN SWORN TOGETHER bestows enormous energy on him, just like
he knows that he is a representative of this black corps of this his community.
He must honour it with best achievement at his post. THUS WE ASSEMBLE AND MARCH
IN ACCORDANCE WITH INALTERABLE LAWS AS A NATIONAL SOCIALIST, SOLDIERLY ORDER OF
NORDIC DETERMINED MEN AND AS A SWORN COMMUNITY OF CLANS along the path into the
distant future. We wish and we believe that WE WILL NOT ONLY BE THE
GRANDCHILDREN WHO FOUGHT MORE SUCCESSFULLY, RATHER BEYOND THAT THE ANCESTORS OF
FAR FUTURE GENERATIONS NECESSARY FOR THE ETERNAL LIFE OF THE GERMAN/GERMANIC
FOLK.
