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on a fairly high level» The Waffen-Sü, in particular, becama the preferred
outfit for fanatical Hitler Touth «ho had gone through Wehre; tu-:h:lgungslager
(military fitneer. camps). (The SS i'auzsr Mvijlor, Hither J\?-mm «as es­
pecially preferred.) The Waffen-SS remained, noreover, the lies -trained
and bost-equippec. lighting outfit of ,he German Amy. Its mura.-e was higher
than that of the Army,, owing partly, no doubt, to the fact fiat S3 officers
and Men, more th* increasing
number of field c.i-isions. At the end of 1941 the» were six i visions, at
the end of 1943 18, at the end of 194- lore than 30,
lii. PtTPose and Functionen Nazi definitions of t'»e 'fe?fea-SS*s
purpose were alwtys kept markedly vsgiie and inms. The recr dtnent booklet,
"Dich ruft die SS n (The SS Calls Iov.); did not go much beyon.1 the definition
which was valid for the /U^gfemairift £S except io eay i.hat "ties« armed units
in barracks...owed their existence to the expansion of che \ f the
1« Interrogation report, British Document, C.S.D.I.C, {U.K.• - 3.R.G.G. 317
(C); on fil3 with OSS, XL 11923.