Bravery is valued by the SS man as the highest virtue of men in a struggle for his ideology.
He openly and unrelentingly fights the most dangerous enemies of the state: Jews, Free Masons, Jesuits, and political clergymen.
However, by his example, he recruits and convinces the weak and inconstant, who have not been able to bring themselves to the National Socialistic ideology.
Source: Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Volume IV Office of the United States Chief Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality Washington, DC : United States Government Printing Office, 1946 |