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.But we cannotfail to comment on the zealousness the overzealousness with which mostmen approached their tasks.Fear of punishment does not quite account for it.There were many options, not picked up, to quietly sabotage the SS machinewithout detection.One could seem perfectly willing to perform anunpleasant task and yet raise questions as to its efficacy.So, for example, thedeputy head of the Nazi Health Bureau, Dr.Kurt Blome, wrote to hissuperior, Arthur Greiser, on November 18, 1942, about the order toexterminate all the Polish population who were tubercular:93 94 GODS AND BEASTSThere is no doubt that the method proposed is the simplest and mostradical.If there could be an absolute guarantee that the matter would bekept secret, one could stifle any scruples one might have.But I believecomplete secrecy to be simply impossible and experience shows that wemust work on that assumption.Suppose that according to plan these sickpersons are despatched to Germany ostensibly for treatment or cure but inpractice do not return; however strict the secrecy, their relatives will oneday realize that there is »something not quite in order« here.It must alsobe remembered that there are large numbers of Polish workers inGermany who will be questioned about the whereabouts of their fellowcountrymen; in addition, a number of Germans are related to Poles,either directly or by marriage, and they will get to know of the deportationof these people.Definite information regarding this action will soon filterthrough and will be seized upon by enemy propaganda.The euthanasiaaffair showed us the form which this propaganda will take and themethods it will use.Political repercussions may be all the greater in thatwe are dealing with members of a defeated nation.I therefore believe that before action begins, these points should be putto the Fuhrer, since in my view he alone is capable of considering all theimplications and making the decision.By this means, Blome caused Himmler to reconsider, and the lives ofthousands of Poles were saved.In order to make sense of the brutal activities of the SS, it must be seenthat its members were motivated, for the most part, not by sadism, but bysacrifice in a fanatical Utopian cause which suspended normal judgment.Present-day occult groups have improved our understanding of the humancapacity for personality change and for expanding the boundaries ofendurance.They show us how malleable people are.They give us newinsights into how an appeal to idealism and a training for self-sacrifice canprepare people for deeds which transcend individual conscience.Membership in the SS seemed to present an opportunity to become part ofa Utopian society its most vital part.The Nazi revolution, like theCommunist revolution, aimed to turn things around, but instead of a classstruggle, it was concerned with a racial struggle.A new class would bebrought to power, not the old aristocracy, but a new aristocracy, based on theinherent nobility of the Aryan blood.The master race was to be theculmination of a biological evolution.If »inferior« races prevented these The Black Knights 95goals, the master race would be justified, by the »natural law« of Darwin-ism, in doing whatever it needed to survive the harsh struggle for existence.This had an immediate appeal to the masses.Sons of middle-class men,like Himmler, who could not even hope, in that gray time of the twentiesand thirties, to approach the comfortable standard of living of their fathers,now saw an escape route.It was not necessarily outcasts or scoundrels who joined the SS, butordinary people, members of the lower and middle classes, who saw in it achance to participate in a movement with which they could identify.Theywere to be the warriors against the enemy.They recognized the enemy.Many of these men had fathers who had read the books of List, Lanz,Fritsch, and Chamberlain and believed in the mystical racist package.Thechurches, too, had shown sympathy with the volkisch ideas [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]
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.But we cannotfail to comment on the zealousness the overzealousness with which mostmen approached their tasks.Fear of punishment does not quite account for it.There were many options, not picked up, to quietly sabotage the SS machinewithout detection.One could seem perfectly willing to perform anunpleasant task and yet raise questions as to its efficacy.So, for example, thedeputy head of the Nazi Health Bureau, Dr.Kurt Blome, wrote to hissuperior, Arthur Greiser, on November 18, 1942, about the order toexterminate all the Polish population who were tubercular:93 94 GODS AND BEASTSThere is no doubt that the method proposed is the simplest and mostradical.If there could be an absolute guarantee that the matter would bekept secret, one could stifle any scruples one might have.But I believecomplete secrecy to be simply impossible and experience shows that wemust work on that assumption.Suppose that according to plan these sickpersons are despatched to Germany ostensibly for treatment or cure but inpractice do not return; however strict the secrecy, their relatives will oneday realize that there is »something not quite in order« here.It must alsobe remembered that there are large numbers of Polish workers inGermany who will be questioned about the whereabouts of their fellowcountrymen; in addition, a number of Germans are related to Poles,either directly or by marriage, and they will get to know of the deportationof these people.Definite information regarding this action will soon filterthrough and will be seized upon by enemy propaganda.The euthanasiaaffair showed us the form which this propaganda will take and themethods it will use.Political repercussions may be all the greater in thatwe are dealing with members of a defeated nation.I therefore believe that before action begins, these points should be putto the Fuhrer, since in my view he alone is capable of considering all theimplications and making the decision.By this means, Blome caused Himmler to reconsider, and the lives ofthousands of Poles were saved.In order to make sense of the brutal activities of the SS, it must be seenthat its members were motivated, for the most part, not by sadism, but bysacrifice in a fanatical Utopian cause which suspended normal judgment.Present-day occult groups have improved our understanding of the humancapacity for personality change and for expanding the boundaries ofendurance.They show us how malleable people are.They give us newinsights into how an appeal to idealism and a training for self-sacrifice canprepare people for deeds which transcend individual conscience.Membership in the SS seemed to present an opportunity to become part ofa Utopian society its most vital part.The Nazi revolution, like theCommunist revolution, aimed to turn things around, but instead of a classstruggle, it was concerned with a racial struggle.A new class would bebrought to power, not the old aristocracy, but a new aristocracy, based on theinherent nobility of the Aryan blood.The master race was to be theculmination of a biological evolution.If »inferior« races prevented these The Black Knights 95goals, the master race would be justified, by the »natural law« of Darwin-ism, in doing whatever it needed to survive the harsh struggle for existence.This had an immediate appeal to the masses.Sons of middle-class men,like Himmler, who could not even hope, in that gray time of the twentiesand thirties, to approach the comfortable standard of living of their fathers,now saw an escape route.It was not necessarily outcasts or scoundrels who joined the SS, butordinary people, members of the lower and middle classes, who saw in it achance to participate in a movement with which they could identify.Theywere to be the warriors against the enemy.They recognized the enemy.Many of these men had fathers who had read the books of List, Lanz,Fritsch, and Chamberlain and believed in the mystical racist package.Thechurches, too, had shown sympathy with the volkisch ideas [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]