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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