“My honor is my loyalty.”
About This Quote
Himmler formulated this as the watchword of the Schultzstaffel, an organization that eventually became an enormous organization ranging from the staff of the concentration camps to the Gestapo and SD, to the Waffen-SS, Hitler's personal soldiers. Above all else, Himmler and the rest of the Nazi leadership stressed the importance of loyalty to the Reich and the Fuehrer. Aas translated in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), by Hannah Arendt Ch. 10
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