Our Task

"The recognition of the opponent was discussed as one great prerequisite of the struggle. We now know his goal, his changing methods and his new manifestations.

What necessities are required of us, the movement, in order to deal with these changes of the struggle?

First, we must realize that the state apparatus, the State Police in particular, can not wage this struggle alone. The police can only counter the external, juristically tangible form of the opponent’s anti-state attitude and it hence more an organ of defense. Worldview opponents can only be decisively defeated in the spiritual struggle by the worldview. After the first months of the revolutionary conquest of state power the standardizations were hence halted. When many comrades failed to realize the necessary change of the struggle, the expression "from revolution to evolution" was coined, from the externally conquered position of power to the spiritual and worldview winning of all.

What demand does this new chapter of struggle place on us, the SS?

We must work on ourselves. Through ceaseless self-discipline, we must anchor and secure in ourselves the eternal principles of the worldview given us by the Führer. We must first standardize ourselves spiritually, so each thinks the same about the opponent, equally rejects him without making personally egocentric and sympathetic exceptions. In order to preserve our folk, we must be very hard toward the opponent, even at the risk of sometimes hurting an individual opponent as a human of appearing to many certainly well meaning people to be undisciplined brutes. If we do not fulfill our historical task as National Socialists, because we too objective and humane, one will nonetheless not grant us moderating circumstances. It will only be said: They did not fulfill their task before history. If somebody is our conscious opponent, he must be defeated subjectively and without exception. If for example every German out of pity excludes even just "one decent" Jew or Freemason from the fight, that would mean 60 million exceptions.

[caption id="attachment_9100" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Reinhard Heydrich at a Fencing Competition with the Berlin SS Fencing Team (1939)[/caption]

The work on ourselves must proceed in terms of character and performance. We must deepen the good elements of our German genes. Despite all hardness, we must be just, we must be the most loyal, and there must be no better comradeship than our own. We must purge the harmful and shortcomings within our own ranks with possibly even greater hardness. In order to prove the correctness of the principles of our community and our selection, we must gradually become the best in all areas. We must in connection with military service present the best recruits to the weapons bearer of the nation; in sports we must always be among the first. In the professions, too, it should become a rule that the consciously political SS-man is also the best expert, in tests as well as in practice. Through our accomplishment we must make the purely "non-political" expert (who is nothing more that) dispensable.

We must also expand our knowledge of our ancestors or even first acquire it. It is knowledge of all the values that God has given our folk: Our blood, our kind, our true historical past. That includes our ancient folk, which - contrary to the claims of many - has its roots far before the time of Christ and far before the - for Germandom so important - 8th century.

We must provide an exemplary living example of the eternal principles provided by the Führer and in positive form try to win over in terms of worldview the people who in the first months due to their character and attitude did want to go along with an external standardization. All those people who could not find the idea’s content due to a faux pas, we must try to win over, personally, man by man, through our accomplishments and the strength of faith that we as the National Socialist movement are allowed to be the smallest link between the high cultural past of our folk and future millennia of German-folkish history.

And we, the SS, want to thereby be the worldview assault troop and the guardian of the Führer’s idea, and at the same time, in the fulfillment of the State Police’s tasks, insofar as we serve in it, the inner-political protection corps of the National Socialist state."

Changes of the Forms of Struggle 

SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich