𝐓𝐇𝐄 𐓏𐓏: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐎𝐑𝐒

Many folks today overlook the fact that the SS was no ordinary instrument of the state, but rather a living aristocracy consisting of well-trained warriors who were imbued with National Socialist theory more than any other division. It was set apart from the dissolving mass of the classic Wehrmacht in that expectations were doubled, even tripled, ensuring that every soldier received the most robust education for the coming age.

The cultivation of a superhuman leadership was, to say the least, the great aim of the SS. As the Reichsführer-SS once declared, it had to consist of Germania's best sons and daughters in order to reign supreme over the old upper class, which had become weakened by moneybags and the advent of industrialism. A new upper class had to be built by a rediscovering the noble origins of the word ‘class’ itself, which was directly connected to a more racially-conscious caste system.

This new class of eugenic supermen was to become the replacement for the Christian sense of moral goodness. Such a replacement discarded the transcendental values of old with an existential system based on the virtuousness of the new aristocracy; the very eugenic development towards a higher breed of man that would have become the ideal for the rest of society. Today, on Heinrich Himmler's birthday, we look back on this great vision he had for his people.

"The development of the SS as a firmly rooted part of the great movement is, in many respects, symbolic of the development of National Socialism as a spiritual attitude, and of the consistent application of this unambiguous attitude in the life of the people and their state: it was not the contingencies of the early years of struggle, nor tactical circumstances, that shaped the form and brought about the individual developments of this Black Corps, but rather, from the very beginning, the National Socialist in this community—man by man—was consciously and repeatedly elevated in many ways above the often petty and compromising realities of everyday life, thereby also rising above their own weaknesses, up to the ever-renewed and vibrant awareness that they were serving a monumental task that was entirely unique in the long history of Germany."

— Die SS Geschichte, Aufgabe und Organisation der Schutzstaffeln der NSDAP. Bearbeitet im Auftrage des Reichsführers SS von SS-Standartenchef Gunter d'Alquen (Junker und Dünnhaupt Verlag / Berlin, 1939) p.6