The role of the SS in Hitler's Germany was as the model of racial purity, the social, military and political elite of the New Germany, and as executors of the Final Solution Holocaust of the Jews.
Entry requirements in the early SS were extremely strict. Applicants had to prove three centuries of pure German bloodline in their family trees, undergo strenuous physical testing and training, and submit to rigid party indoctrination. Their training ended with a blood oath to the Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler.
As wartime losses among the SS mounted, and the scope and size of the Holocaust grew, they became less particular, admitting Ukranians, Latvians, Lithuanians and Estonians.
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