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and I quote from our Document 1992(a)-PS, Page 1 of the
translation, last paragraph, Page 138, Paragraph 1 of the original:
"Accordingly, only good blood, blood
which history has proved to be leading and creative and the foundation
of every state and of all military activities, only Nordic blood, can
be considered. I said to myself that should I succeed in selecting
from the German people for this organization as many people as
possible, a majority of whom possess this desired blood, in teaching
them military discipline and, in time, the understanding of the value
of blood and the entire ideology which results from it, then it will
be possible actually to create such an elite organization which would
successfully hold its own in all cases of emergency."
Further on, on Page 5 of the translation — I beg your pardon, on
Page 4 of the translation, first line, Page 140 of the original, bottom
paragraph, he says, referring to the method by which applicants were
selected:
"They are very thoroughly examined
and checked. Of 100 men we can use on the average 10 or 15, no more.
We ask for the political record of his parents, brothers and sisters,
the record of his ancestry as far back as 1750, and naturally the
physical examination and his record from the Hitler Youth. Further, we
ask for a eugenic record showing that no hereditary disease exists in
his parents and in his family."
THE PRESIDENT: I don't seem to get the point of this. We have already
been told that the SS was a corps d'elite, and all this is
showing the details of the choice.
MAJOR FARR: That is correct; it is showing the details of the choice.
THE PRESIDENT: But that has nothing to do with its being a criminal
organization, has it?
MAJOR FARR: I think it has, Your Honor. I want to make again, if I may,
two points. The very essence of this organization was that of race. Its
racial standards of selection had two purposes: One, making it an
organization which would be an aristocracy not only for Germany, but
which would be in a position to dominate all of Europe. For that
purpose, not only were strict racial standards imposed for selection,
but a great drive was made to perpetuate the SS stock, to build up a
group of men who would be in a position to take over Europe when it was
conquered.
There was nothing questionable about that aim. Himmler explicitly said
time and time again: "What we are after is making Ourselves the
superclass which will be able to dominate Europe for centuries.'' That
was one of the fundamental purposes of the