"A thousand years will pass, and this guilt of Germany will still not be erased"
Hans Frank

SS Ideological Statements

Jews

[Himmler, Heydrich (Reichsführer-SS und Chef der deutschen Polizei), at meeting of SS senior officers, October 1943]

"Only the SS was equal to the task of exterminating the Jewish people. Others talked about it but had too many reservations .... To have completed such a mission is an unwritten page of honor in the history of the SS." [Source: The "Einsatazgruppen Case", p.35]

Slavs and Russians

[Himmler, Heydrich (Reichsführer-SS und Chef der deutschen Polizei), at meeting of SS senior officers, Poznan, October 1943]

"What happens to a Russian, to a Czech does not interest me in the slightest. What the nations can offer in the way of good blood of our type, we will take, if necessary by kidnaping their children and raising them here with us. Whether nations live in prosperity or starve to death interests me only so far as as we need them as slaves for our Kultur; otherwise, it is of no interest to me. Whether 10,000 Russian females fall down from exhaustion while digging an antitank ditch interests me only insofar as the antitank ditch for Germany is finished. We shall never be rough and heartless when it is not necessary, that is clear. We Germans who are the only people in the world who have a decent attitude towards animals will also assume a decent attitude towards these human animals. But it is a crime against our own blood to worry about them and give them ideals, thus causing our sons and grandsons to have a more difficult time with them. When somebody comes to me and says, 'I cannot dig the antitank ditch with women and children, it is inhuman, for it would kill them', then I have to say, 'You are a murderer of your own blood because, if the antitank ditch is not dug, German soldiers will die, and they are the sons of German mothers. They are our own blood. That is what I want to instill into this SS and what I believe have [sic] instilled into them as one of the most sacred laws of the future. Our concern, our duty is our people and our blood. It is for them that we must provide and plan, work and fight, nothing else. We can be indifferent to everything else. I wish the SS to adopt this attitude to the problem of all foreign non-Germanic peoples, especially Russians. All else is vain, fraud against our own nation and an obstacle to the early winning of the war." (1919-PS, Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression. vol. IV, p. 559. U. S. Government Printing Office. Washington. 1946) [Source: The "Einsatazgruppen Case", p.34]