“One principle must be absolute for the SS man: we must be honest, decent, loyal and friendly to members of our blood and to no one else. What happens to the Russians, what happens to the Czechs, is a matter of utter indifference to me. Such good blood of our own kind as there may be among the nations we shall acquire for ourselves, if necessary by taking away the children and bringing them up among us.”
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Audio Excerpts from the speech given by Heinrich Himmler to SS Group Leaders in Posen, occupied Poland October 4, 1943
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