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an elite according to biologieal principles, however, had earns practice
reasons behind :.t as Troll* 7.1th the Party entering ever mo:'e closely into
an allianoo with the ruling groups, an organisation }iad to be ohoaera in
which the main principles 0f the Uasi trystem, specifically -JIT» raoial onesy
would not only be jealously guarded hut would bs carried to Bach extremes
as to inspire or intinidat© the raet of the population. Furbiennora, in
view of the unlimited. scope of Ileal aspirations, and in vievr of the un­
predictable nati re oi popular reaction;! with -*hich Nasi asp:jritians would
meet,, the situation called for e»n organization in whioh there vouid be aasi
expediency and total discretion on the part of the leaders, aid blind obedience
on the part of the members..
SSQI
It is this complete reliance on biological standards aid total indif­
ference toward all rules established by tradition, ethics, and law t&Jsäi
explain the extra-legal and illegal nature of measures adopted by fche S£
in Ute course oi its operationsc t-aintenanc© of the security of the race,
overtly an innocuous assignment irrelevant to the c oralis a io; )f ^nar crirea,
evolves as a function indispensable for the ideologies! prepa:-eticn and
organization of crimes committed as pai*t and parcel of the ovor^ell task of
securing the Reich against internal and. external opponents and of preserving
the spoils o:? genauest*
(2) lte.ee and Membership.» Security of the race vas guarex/tfjed^ first of
all, through the racial quality of the memberB of the 3S themueivea. The
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3S, according to official definition naa "a homogeneous fighting corps
(Eampftruppe), firmly bound and autoolly pledged through cccmun ideology,
'she fighters of -shioh are selected fiac. the best that Aryan rmkind has to