Chapter 53 SS Report

The "healthy human sanity" that Himmler twittily illustrates here is nothing more than a brutal reign of terror. Whoever is unlucky enough to be targeted by Himmler's institutions will fall into the hell of violence. Bolshevik party members, Jews, homosexuals, and Gypsies were systematically humiliated, abused, and killed in Himmler's prisons and concentration camps. Himmler himself laid down detailed rules for daily life in the camps – purportedly aimed at stopping the excessive arbitrariness of the staff. But the reality is a different story. Despite the clear rules, sadists still have a lot of freedom to wield. State justice may not prosecute murder in concentration camps. When in doubt, it was always the "SS state leader" who made the verdict in favor of his own caretaker. In not a single case was the case of Himmler's concentration camp guards being overpunished for brutality. How ironic is his own attitude towards prisoners, who once welcomed a group of new inmates in Dachau: "You know, you are here in protected custody. That said, we will do everything in our power to protect you. When the guards heard this, they burst into laughter and interrupted him.

With the outbreak of war, Himmler's scope of responsibility continued to grow dramatically. Hitler, who always made fun of his romantic and eccentric hobbies, his most effective executor, needed him more now than ever. The dark illusion of living space in the East, first to drive out the people there and then to "Germanize", seems to have finally taken shape. Himmler's staff began to develop a plan on how to push Germany's "national borders" as far east as possible. The result was the "Eastern Master Plan", which expected 3 million people in Poland and the western part of the Soviet Union to starve to death. In turn, a large number of German immigrants living in "defense villages" had to protect the new Germanic borders. At the time of the attack on Poland, Himmler and Heydrich began the first actions to reduce the "peoples of the East". Their assault forces, which followed the forward troops in pursuit of Polish intellectuals and Jews, were not too systematic for the time being. The hierarchy of orders is always the same. Hitler first personally spoke to the SS chiefs to explain the general policy, and then the latter conveyed specific orders to his men. But the relationship between the two is not at all characterized by the friendly and tacit nature of the weekly picture. For Himmler, he was always nervous whenever he had to walk up to his "Führer". How afraid Himmler was to go to Hitler: "No one who has not seen it with their own eyes will believe that a man with Himmler's power would be so frightened when given the order to go to Hitler." "If everything goes well and even gets a compliment, he'll be so happy that he'll pass an exam." "It was an almost pathological dependency. When Himmler claimed to his subordinates that the Führer was always right, it was a transcendent fact for him—although as the most well-informed man in the Reich, he certainly knew that Hitler had in fact made all sorts of obviously wrong decisions. But in the fantasies of this executor, the dictator really plays the role of the savior of the nation. "He showed up in our most difficult time." He praised Hitler: "He belongs to those great glorious images who appear for the Germanic peoples whenever the body, spirit, and soul fall into extreme hardship." Goethe is such an image of the spiritual realm, Bismarck is the political realm, and the Führer is the various spheres. He was prepared for the world by the Germanic reincarnation to lead the struggle against the East and save the Germanic culture of the world. This morbid hymn from Himmler's mouth is not just talk. He exalted his "Führer" to the point of being like God, not just a matter of intellect, but because this infinite worship satisfied his innermost need for dependence, direction, and security.

Himmler was ready for many years for the "battle" that began now. The central point of his ethnographic delusions is the classification of life: people, "inferior people" and animals. Himmler forcibly instilled his core message with his men at every opportunity. The SS gave lectures, pamphlets, and lectures to develop a "worldview" among its subordinates. At the center of this "new thinking" should not be the individual and his vision of happiness, but the happiness of the people, the happiness of the race. Every SS member should consider himself to be only a link in the chain between ancestors and heirs.

At this moment, Himmler would not have imagined what terrible influence his ideas would have on future generations, and now, he was destined to have an "inferior person" to challenge him.

Himmler returned to his residence and checked the report on the Waffen-SS. The Waffen-SS has now expanded to 160,000 men, consisting of five divisions, one divisional battle group and a number of independent units, and now all SS units are engaged in the war against the Soviet Union.

The report of an SS officer caught his attention: "The Russian infantry often fought until the last moment...... In those burning tanks, Soviet tankers fired with all their might as long as they had a breath...... Wounded or unconscious soldiers pounce on their weapons as soon as they regain consciousness...... The defeated Russian units will leave a small detachment in our rear, which will hold out and be reinforced for the specified time until a large Russian force appears...... No matter how deep the rivers and swamps were, or how dense the woods, they always found their way through. ”

“…… Whenever we attacked the Soviets, almost without exception we were met with stubborn resistance, they had terrible KV heavy tanks, these monsters with strong armor will always take the lead, and the '4' tank, which we were once so proud of, can only threaten them at close range, and their cannons can easily tear our tanks to shreds...... I still remember the day I encountered a car with the body number '521' The KV-1' tank: its front and sides were crumbled by our shells of various calibers, not a single shell could penetrate it, most of our infantry who tried to attack it from close range were knocked down by its machine guns, its tankers leaned out of the turret under a rain of bullets and fired at our infantry with submachine guns, at that moment, I saw the face of a young girl, her fluttering black hair, her dark eyes, so charming in the smoke of gunfire...... It's hard to imagine that the members of this tank would have a beautiful Oriental female warrior......"

Despite his dissatisfaction with the fact that the SS subordinate's report was full of praise for the enemy, Himmler, who agreed with the Führer's aesthetic views, imagined in his mind the "wonderful" scene of the time and felt a slight tremor at it.