ᛋ 𝐍𝐒-𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑 ᛋ

𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐝𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬

A poet of our time, whose work has achieved the highest acclaim in the eyes of the nation, wrote down the uncompromising words as his creed: “Only those who need God follow God. Those who don’t need him don’t follow him. Even those who talk to him need him.” Only those who need God follow God… Is this so? Is God, however one views him, a God of the burdened and despairing of life, a deception we ourselves have cleverly invented to cope with a world that, as it is, simply cannot satisfy us? Is prayer always just a plea, an act of consolation or of our powerlessness? Many pray in order to plead, many pray to be comforted—but the God of comfort is not ours. When we subscribe to the saying, "God dwells only in proud hearts," we mean a different God than the comforting one, or at least a different way of relating to Him: we mean that God, courage, and strength are intrinsically linked, and that therefore even people who don't need Him, at least not out of fear, can still follow Him. It's conceivable that a young person, after bravely defending himself with a handful of comrades against overwhelming odds and courageously enduring the most bitter hours between life and death, might, upon facing such danger, suppress his emotions into some kind of cry, even curse! Nevertheless, it's reasonable to assume that he was praying, and in a very fervent and passionate way. We are not so much concerned with whether and what the moved individual might say—we are moved by the fact that, in the highest moments, man marvels before life as before a greater, yet inexplicable whole, and that this wonder, far from weakening or degrading man, only truly confirms him as one included in an ultimate, overwhelming destiny. Man thus transcends all that is merely visible, tangible, useful; he transcends all individual things altogether and advances toward the consciousness of the world, that mysterious experience into which we find ourselves born and from which death, unquestioning, snatches us away at his appointed hour. But it is the power and greatness of man that he, born without will, does not live out his existence involuntarily, but from his earliest years, and then ever more boldly, confronts this existence as a questioner, asking what thirty, sixty, ninety years of life truly desire and what these things are: loyalty, love, comradeship, courage. It is both the blessing and the curse of humanity that, to this day, no one has found a concise answer to such thoughts, nor should anyone be able to. God is not an X that can ultimately be calculated with absolute certainty from some equation; for us humans, he is not a fact, but a question. [...] No wonder at the depths of the world should alienate us from the facts, nor from the struggle for mere existence; we want to become neither contemplative souls nor ambivalent people, but rather, with an open mind, to embrace life—the daily and often bitter life as well as the transfiguring and meaningful life. The God in whom we place our trust corresponds to our hearts; he is our own hearts in his moments of openness and affirmation of the world. We praise God and his creation all the more credibly the more proudly and confidently we appear within it. The laughing eye, the lightness of step, a spirit that is truly capable of rejoicing and soaring, genuine youth, genuine manliness, perseverance, love, and camaraderie—these are the standard-bearers of God. And here we are united once again with the spirit of the poet from whom we began, and who concluded the confession of his poetic faith with the words that bind us all: “But let humankind carry the divine into the world!”

Source: "Gott wohnt nur in stolzen Herzen" SS Leitheft, 10. Jahrgang, Heft 6 1944 p.31 𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔤𝔩ä𝔲𝔟𝔦𝔤𝔨𝔢𝔦𝔱

𝐋𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐒-𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐖𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐊𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝟏𝟗𝟒𝟑

Always remain loyal to the Führer and remember what is written on my belt buckle: "My honor is loyalty!" Remember also that Germany can only exist if it thinks nationally and socially, and that the greatest enemies of this idea are and always will be the Jews. – Only when this criminal people is completely rooted out will the world find peace. You can already see that the Jew is behind all our enemies from the fact that capitalism/plutocracy has allied itself against us with its death knell, Bolshevism/communism. This is only possible because the masterminds in both camps are Jews.

Source: BArch RS 24/23 Feldpostbrief von SS-Sturmmann Krauss, an seinen Bruder, 25.12.1943 p.6 𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔤𝔩ä𝔲𝔟𝔦𝔤𝔨𝔢𝔦𝔱

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐲

If any character trait truly reveals this unity of being, it is, alongside the sense of honor described by Alfred Rosenberg, the Germanic concept of loyalty. This does not imply the highlighting of another supreme value; for honor and loyalty are not mutually exclusive, but in truth one and the same, expressed in different ways. "All honor comes from loyalty," as the Sachsenspiegel already states. True honor demanded the utmost loyalty; the faithless person was also dishonorable. Ultimately, there is only one (important here) difference between the two: that one cannot concretely define and demonstrate what honor actually is, because it represents something mysterious and incomprehensible, a purely metaphysical center of the soul, that "spark," as Meister Eckhart would call it, whereas loyalty is a value of the highest given. Houston Stewart Chamberlain once said: Loyalty is the center from which the entire character, or rather, the entire personality of the Germanic person can be surveyed. Therefore, loyalty is precisely the finest touchstone for distinguishing genuine Germanic character from inauthenticity. And indeed: We see how, wherever Germanic character unfolded, loyalty became the all-motivating inner force of the soul; how, right at the beginning of our history, the hymn to loyalty stands larger than life; an eternal parable of how, in the conflict of duties, heroes, guilty yet innocent, clash and must wrestle with one another, foreseeing the bitter end and yet submitting to the unwritten, inner laws of loyalty: Kriemhild, whose sacred marital fidelity drives her to inhuman revenge; the Burgundian kings, who, at Etzel's court in their direst hour of death, are promised their lives one last time if they release Hagen. They refuse: Lord Hagen, their comrade-in-arms, was always loyal to them; whatever he did, he did for them. They cannot buy their lives with his, and so, united with him, they willingly go towards death.... The enduring aspect of Hagen's figure, in turn, is the rigid, uncanny impassivity with which he follows the path of fate, which he knows leads to death. And once again we see how the same loyalty, which here acted as an unwavering force of the soul, is just as vivid in the works of Master Hildebrand and Dietrich von Bern, in Beowulf, in the pious poet of the Heliand, in the beautiful Waltharius song; perhaps most purely in a song that depicts the loyalty of the Norse woman and is scarcely equal in its spiritual beauty, the Gudrun saga. None other than Tacitus had already written: No man in the world surpasses the Germans in loyalty; and he himself recounted the incident when, once during Nero's circus games, the Frisian envoys left their assigned seats at the back and proudly sat down next to the senators' places of honor, replying to the astonished onlookers: this was their right, because no mortals surpassed them in courage and loyalty! The Romans knew this all too well, and that is why we see how, from Caesar and Augustus onward, all Roman emperors, and likewise the Pope, formed their personal bodyguards from Germanic tribes. They simply had to send them ever further into the "barbaric north" because, along with the "blessings" of the culture coming from the south, the poison of treachery also began to penetrate ever deeper. However zealously the foreign converts eradicated Germanic customs and sacred oaks, they could not extinguish the inner essence. Loyalty continued to work. [...] We must recognize that the retinues of the Germanic dukes, the Norse Vikings, the knightly orders, the Prussian army, the soldiers of the World War, the SA and SS are essentially one and the same, embodiments of the ever-powerful idea of ​​loyalty.

Source: "Die Einheit des deutschen Wesens" Der Schulungsbrief Jahrgang III, Folge 11. November. Franz Eher Nachf Verlag Berlin 1936 p.9 𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔤𝔩ä𝔲𝔟𝔦𝔤𝔨𝔢𝔦𝔱

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐢𝐥

In his Annals, Tacitus, in his concise yet dramatically heightened style, recounts the fate of the Germanic tribe of the Ampsivarii, offering us profound insight into the agricultural nature of the Germanic peoples in general. Forced to migrate due to a scarcity of land, the Ampsivarii moved to vast expanses of fallow land in the Roman border region, intending to cultivate it. When the Romans attempted to prevent this, a conflict arose between the Roman governor Dubius Avitus and the Ampsivarii spokesman, Boiocal. Boiocal defended his tribe's intention as their right: as the heavens were given to the Gods, so the earth was given to humankind; and any land unclaimed could be plowed by anyone. Then he looked up at the sun, called upon it and the other stars, and asked – as Tacitus literally reports – as if they were personally present, whether they wished to look down upon a deserted land: they should rather let the sea flood over it to put an end to these land robbers. Boiocal's justification for his people's legal claim to the uncultivated land is characteristically Germanic. It clearly reflects, in all its essential features, the Germanic agrarian legal conception of land, which found its original form in the Germanic Odal law. [...] We must seek it in the fundamentally different legal concepts that the Romans and Germanic peoples held regarding the relationship between humans and the land. The Germanic people did not recognize the unlimited freedom of the individual that defined late Roman land ownership. For the Germanic peoples, the farmstead was not an asset that the individual could dispose of as they pleased; it was not "private property." According to Germanic legal principles, the farm is the basis of life for the ancestral lineage; it is common property that obligates the members to selfless service for the sake of the future of this lineage. Thus, in the Germanic conception of land law, blood and soil unite in a firm, duty-bound unity. This legal concept, however, receives a veritable religious consecration through the notion of the divine fief (to which Boiocal gave such eloquent expression). [...] The fate of the German people and their Germanic ancestors is therefore incomprehensible without a thorough understanding of Germanic-German land law. The spirit of this land law determined the internal and external development of our people at all crucial stages. Its denial always meant degeneration and the danger of self-destruction. It is therefore no coincidence, but a sure sign of a renewed focus on our primal national forces, that one of the first acts of the National Socialist leadership was a fundamental reform of land law, initiated by the Prussian Hereditary Farm Law and culminating in the Reich Hereditary Farm Law. Therefore, when we turn in the following to an examination of the development from Germanic Odal law to the National Socialist Reich Hereditary Farm Law, we are attempting to gain insight into the life-determining laws of our people.

Source: "Der Kampf um Blut und Boden" Der Schulungsbrief. Jahrgang V, Folge 10, October. Franz Eher Nachf Verlag Berlin 1938 p.6 𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔤𝔩ä𝔲𝔟𝔦𝔤𝔨𝔢𝔦𝔱

'𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭' 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐒𝐃𝐀𝐏

We live in a time of overthrow of old values, both in practical and spiritual life. The old breaks down, the new takes its place, and the world around us takes on a new face. Of course, “the world” remains the same: years come and go, sun and moon change; People are born and die, as always. But in our time the values ​​that people attach to the things around them are becoming new again, the view with which they see them is becoming new, their judgment about value or unworthiness, good or evil, in the phenomena of life is becoming new. In such times of upheaval it is necessary to look deeply into the current of intellectual development. Only the movement, only the political group that does this from the ground up and is most strongly imbued with the intellectual forces of the new era can take the lead in the life of power politics and stay at the top. Otherwise it will remain just an episode in the history of its time. National Socialism was the first and clearest of all political power formations to recognize the meaning and content of today's intellectual revolution. Let us ensure that he maintains this leading position and he will be forever invincible. The past epoch was characterized by the fact that it placed the highest values ​​outside of man. They were dead things, abstract thoughts or - as in the last century - metal money. Today we evaluate things differently, new or ancient, as you like. The spirit of the ancient Greek resonates again, who, with the same feeling and the same blood, saw man as the measure of all things more than two thousand years ago. We too relate the world around us, whether it is worth or not, to the living life that we first and best learned to understand in humans, and we support anemic values ​​of the past and thus serve the spiritual meaning of our days. But when we speak of people, the word has a different meaning than in the liberal era that has been overcome. There it also meant of man. And he was understood either as an individual self, detached from all ties in relation to the people around him and those who came before him and after him across the generations. Or one learned that this individual self was successful and afraid in its limitless loneliness - one constructed an unreal humanity, never experienced, only imagined, bloodless, a pale shadow without life and inner value. And in their name, all forces hostile to life fought against the blood and future of the living peoples. We understand it differently when we talk about people. Not the ego or humanity, but the living organic, i.e. We then imagine a blood-based community of people that science calls race and whose value and meaning every day of reflection allows us to recognize more deeply. We do not want to conduct research or present ourselves as scientific in these magazines. It's not about factual scholarship. It is only a matter of communicating the results of biological and racial research to the German people so that they can see how rotten and decaying the forms of thought in which the forces of the old world moved. [...] If National Socialism succeeds in introducing a new type of human being into the history of our people, new and at the same time ancient, based on knowledge and laws of blood, then it has fulfilled its mission and will live on in history as long as there are Germans. Everything we write here serves this living goal.

Source: BArch NS 2/74 "Revolution des Geistes" Neues Volk, Blätter des Rassenpolitischen Amtes der NSDAP, 2. Jg. 1934, Nr. 10 p.5 𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔤𝔩ä𝔲𝔟𝔦𝔤𝔨𝔢𝔦𝔱

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬?

There are three causes that lead to the downfall of nations. Firstly, the purely numerical decrease, the decline in numbers, which initially leads to a weakening of the nation's strength compared to, for example, faster-growing neighbors, and thus shifts the natural balance of power between the two nations in such a way that the numerically weaker nation, despite perhaps internal superiority, is inevitably crushed by its numerically stronger neighbor. The second cause: a shift in hereditary value within this nation, a rise in merely average or even below-average talents, character traits, physical and mental abilities, and a relative decline in the class of those of above-average value. The word "valuable" or "less valuable" is by no means measured against intellectual standards, but rather understood in the way we all understand it in everyday life. We certainly don't call a highly gifted and intelligent person who is otherwise a scoundrel in character and a weakling physically, or something else entirely, valuable; on the contrary, we place them on the other side. Conversely, someone with merely average intelligence can, by virtue of their physical and mental attributes, be far above average in value to the nation. But values ​​are never equal anywhere, and if, within a nation, the segment whose overall values ​​are lower due to hereditary factors grows in number and becomes stronger than the other segment, which in itself could be valuable, then ultimately the value of the entire nation diminishes, along with its strength both internally and externally, and its capacity for political and economic, as well as intellectual and religious, achievements. The end result will be that such a nation, although its numbers remain the same or perhaps even increase, will become, in a sense, a completely different entity within the borders of its country, sinking ever lower. The third cause, finally, that has destroyed nations throughout history and must continue to do so, wherever and whenever it occurs, is mixing with foreign racial elements. It is well known that the great nations of antiquity perished not least because, in their belief in the absolute equality of all people, they recklessly opened their borders, as well as the doors of their homes and families, to people of the most foreign blood and race. Consequently, the resulting race of mixed-race and bastard races lacked one thing that alone can give lasting value and strength to any reasonably pure and unmixed ethnic community: the harmony of body and soul, mind and character in every single human being. What, then, does that central area we previously called "education" mean for the overall task facing us all and the state of today? Propaganda in politics, agitation, education, and instruction, as we carried them out during the struggle, were means to an end; they were tools to achieve a goal. The goal was to gain the ability to shape the state and the economy by seizing power in government. But when we speak today of conducting education, propaganda, and training in the field of racial policy, then this is no longer a means to an end, but rather a part of the end itself, perhaps even the most important part. It will very quickly become clear what the practical implementation of the aforementioned fundamental insights into racial policy is actually intended to achieve.

Source: "Volk und Rasse" Der Schulungsbrief. Jahrgang VI, Folge 4, April. Franz Eher Nachf Verlag Berlin 1939 p.7 𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔤𝔩ä𝔲𝔟𝔦𝔤𝔨𝔢𝔦𝔱

𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐢𝐜𝐡 Lively photos from 1938 of the lesser-known "Healthy Living, Joyful Working" exhibition held in Berlin. [1] In the official NSDAP newspaper "Der Führer", it gives us more context surrounding this exhibition:

The Reich Medical Leader Dr. Wagner dealt in lengthy statements with the numerous problems of public health. In his introduction, he underlined the importance of the Main Office for Public Health as an office of the party to which the leader had entrusted the German people's greatest asset, health. In contrast to past times, the National Socialist health system strived to strengthen and increase the vitality and performance of healthy people with the greatest emphasis on the unity of body, mind and soul. The National Socialist health leadership is responsible for the great and enormous task of guiding the German people towards health, increased performance and maintaining their ability to work and enjoy life. The German doctor is a trustee in the service of the health of the German people. Not only when he is sick, but also when he is healthy, he has to go to the German person in order to be able to intervene in a timely manner to prevent cases of illness. The Reich Medical Leadership has set four principles as the leitmotif of this exhibition: 1. Being healthy and staying healthy is not your private matter, but being healthy is your duty; 2. Damage to life and health that you suffer or cause is also damage for Germany; 3. You can avoid a large part of all damage through a sense of responsibility and duty; 4. Damage prevention is the realization of National Socialism in your daily life.

[2] Source: [1] BArch NS 2/86 "Gesundes Leben, Frohes Schaffen" p.340-344 [2] "Im Dienste der Volksgesundheit" Der Führer: das Hauptorgan der NSDAP Gau Baden; der badische Staatsanzeiger 25.09.1938 p.4 𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔤𝔩ä𝔲𝔟𝔦𝔤𝔨𝔢𝔦𝔱

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞

The conscious emphasis on the importance of early Germanic culture all too often still encounters a lack of understanding, which prefers to hide behind a mask of condescending superiority. People scoff at the "Romantics" who feel the need to derive the significance of the peasantry from the most distant past. They do not see, or rather, they do not want to see, that the question of the unique development of German culture and the creative power of German peasants is a question of paramount importance today, the answer to which is absolutely decisive for the fundamental direction of German politics. The fragmentation of German historiography into a number of separate specialized disciplines has indeed greatly promoted individual research and, in that respect, produced many valuable results; however, in the long run, the view of the natural context of German development has been increasingly lost. Only in this way can it be explained that the view could take hold in a segment of German historiography that German culture was not an indigenous, native development, but rather that it was grafted onto the German people, so to speak, with the introduction of Christianity. The destruction of this legend is not a matter that concerns only the various branches of historiography; for the false conception of Germanicness and its culture has been all too often and for too long misused by politicians and promoted for the purpose of this misuse. The lie of the barbarity of our Germanic ancestors, to whom supposedly only foreign peoples had to bring the blessings of culture, is ultimately the root of the war guilt lie. Without this false, but almost universally held notion, the atrocity propaganda of our enemies in the World War would not have found the receptive ground that so greatly favored their incitement. Just as dangerous as the foreign policy effect of defaming our Germanic ancestors, however, has always been the domestic policy effect of this historical lie; for it formed, consciously or unconsciously, the point of entry when foreign influences and powers allied themselves with domestic political forces to make their claims more palatable. Even a cursory overview of German history shows what a disastrous influence these unnatural alliances have exerted on the emergence of the German people and the development of German statehood right up to the present day. [...] National Socialism has opened the eyes of the German people to the significance of race and peasantry as the source of our life force. If, on the other hand, that historical legend which views German culture not as original but as a product of foreign missionary activity were correct, then the doctrine of National Socialism would be a hopeless error; for there is no evidence to suggest that a people whose creative abilities for centuries were supposedly limited solely to processing foreign intellectual and cultural heritage could suddenly be capable of creative acts of their own making, independent of foreign influences. Anyone who grasps this sequence will recognize the inherent impossibility of the historical legend I have identified. The final overcoming of this historical legend is not so much a task of new research, the importance of which, incidentally, should by no means be underestimated, but rather consists primarily in recognizing the intimate connections between Germanic and German culture, in recognizing the continuing influence of Germanic creative power in German history despite all foreign influences. We need a conception of history that is once again a holistic view, that has once again learned to think in terms of centuries. Such a mindset will readily do justice to the significance of German peasantry for our national development; for prehistory and early history teach that peasantry and Germanic culture are inseparable concepts.

Source: "Das Bauerntum als völkischer Lebensquell" Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte Heft 48, Jahrgang 5, March. Franz Eher Nachf Verlag München 1934 p.2 𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔤𝔩ä𝔲𝔟𝔦𝔤𝔨𝔢𝔦𝔱

ᛋᛋ: 𝐑𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭

The essence of National Socialism cannot be grasped in just a few sentences. We can only highlight its most essential features. Above all, there is the concept of race, which our worldview places at the forefront. It has therefore made the reverential study of the laws of life its duty. This study has brought us, above all, a fundamental insight: the knowledge of the value and significance of blood. We have recognized that not everything that bears a human face is the same, that people differ according to race and personal disposition, that good blood can only be produced from good blood. Dispositions cannot be arbitrarily cultivated or artificially produced in any other way. Therefore, the concept of blood, the concept of race, lies at the heart of our thinking. This means nothing other than reconnecting with what was self-evident to our Germanic ancestors as a unity of faith, law, and social order, as long as they still lived their lives as free farmers in healthy lineages, uninfluenced by foreign intellectual currents.

Source: BArch RS 3-17/38 Weltanschauliche Schulung für SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Götz von Berlichingen" 24.3.1944 p.128 𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔤𝔩ä𝔲𝔟𝔦𝔤𝔨𝔢𝔦𝔱

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐜 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐞

The ancestors of the Romans and Germans belonged to one people, the "original Nordic people," some 3000 years ago. They were of one lineage, one race, they spoke the same language, and they had the same rights. Our ancestors, rarely leaving their original homeland in northern Europe, remained settled in their homeland and mixed so little with foreign peoples and other races that the Roman writer Tacitus could say of them that they were the original inhabitants of Germania and equal only to themselves, i.e., unmixed and racially pure. The ancestors of the Romans, however, separated from their mother people early on and, like so many other Nordic tribes, migrated to the southern lands. There, they soon came into contact with people of other races. Although the old Nordic legal system strictly forbade mixing with foreign blood, over the course of centuries, racial purity could not be maintained in the face of countless temptations and allurements. When the city of Rome was founded in 753 BC, the ruling class of the Roman "patricians," that is, the sons of the fathers—those men who had a Nordic father—were probably no longer entirely racially pure, and certainly not the likely subjugated lower class of "plebeians." Nevertheless, the state-building power of the Nordic blood was strong enough to elevate the small city-state, despite all dangers, into a formidable world power. But over time, racial mixing occurred, first slowly, then ever more rapidly. Not only did patricians and plebeians mingle, but the blood of the predominantly Near Eastern Etruscans and other Mediterranean peoples also seeped into the Roman population, and the greater the extent of the Roman Empire became, the greater the "racial chaos" of its inhabitants. While the political center of the vast trading empire, the "world city" of Rome, attracted everyone who wanted to make their fortune, the old northern families of the true Romans became a hopeless minority, bled to death in the wars for global dominance, were exterminated in the civil wars, suffered declining birth rates, or degenerated through avaricious disgrace. Jews, Syrians, and other Asians controlled trade and ruled through money; the army soon consisted largely of Germanic and other barbarians; even the emperors were no longer true Romans. In short, the Roman Empire eventually became a soulless state machine that ruled over a chaotically dispersed mass of people, held together no longer by natural blood ties but only by a web of elaborate legal systems. This law, compiled around 535 AD by the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian in the Corpus Juris, is what we understand as Roman law. If we consider the conditions under which it arose, we hold the key to a proper understanding. At that time, there was a complete lack of an inner, innate sense of justice, which was replaced by a sharply logical, but also sophistical, pedantic, and conceptually slicing intellect. Racial division had dissolved all moral bonds; instead, external power and the coercive force of the state now held people together. There was no longer any intrinsic connection between morality and law; consequently, it was considered justified to pursue base instincts for material gain as far as the laws still permitted. Instead of practicing decency and loyalty, it was considered clever and wise to circumvent the law, to slip through its nets, and to outwit the goddess of justice. The heroic spirit was considered contemptible, the mercantile spirit honorable; the selfish pursuit of profit by the individual was given paramount protection, while the people were no longer given any thought, precisely because there was no longer a "people" in the true sense of the word, namely a cohesive community bound by blood.

Source: "Römisches Recht und deutsches Recht" Die Rassengesetzliche Rechtslehre Franz Eher Nachf Verlag München. 1932, p.6 𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔤𝔩ä𝔲𝔟𝔦𝔤𝔨𝔢𝔦𝔱

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐒

The Germanic man is the Sun Hero, the Sun Child, the Eternal Fire. He is the ever-green World Tree, which continually renews itself in changing foliage until the end of days. The revolving Sun Wheel is the flaming mark of his soul, the symbol of his nature and his striving. The Germanic man is ideally embodied in the Siegfried figure, in the hero who is of all ages. Under the Sun Wheel or Swastika, the resilient bearers of humanity's culture have fought throughout the ages against the alien powers from the South and East. There is no stagnation on the Germanic path of life and no deviation. The same Eternal constantly repeats itself in different guise and in changing outward forms: the struggle of the Germanic man against the underworld. The Germanic warrior always looks different, and the underworld always manifests itself in different guises. But the essence and the fundamental remain the same: all life is struggle, and every struggle is either a victory of the Light or a demonic alienation by Uitgaard, the world of darkness and human rejection.

Source: Storm: Weekblad der Germaansche SS in Nederland, 22 December 1944, vierde jaargang, nummer 38 p.1 𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔤𝔩ä𝔲𝔟𝔦𝔤𝔨𝔢𝔦𝔱

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦?

Few questions occupy those concerned with Völkisch matters today as much as this one: Where do the runes come from? And it must be said at the outset that there is not yet a completely exhaustive answer to this question, and probably never will be, because the origin of these strange runic symbols will lie where the very beginning of our race lies. In such distant times, we must seek it and finally put an end to the phrase we still hear today, even from "experts," namely that the runes either spread northward from the Black Sea or originated in the Alps, derived from the Etruscan script. And their origin remains what their name means: mysterious whispering! An age-old secret, however, that speaks of the former cultural heights of our people, our race. We usually hear that the runes were developed from the Phoenician script. It is incomprehensible how such a fable could have persisted for so long, a fable that collapses in every respect upon closer examination. Even the Roman Tacitus rejected the notion that runes could have been invented by this Semitic Mediterranean tribe, and the fact that this early trading people, who successively used pictographic scripts, cuneiform Christian scripts, Greek and other scripts—as their extensive trade networks demanded—had a distinct consonantal script with 22 letters, already proves a fundamental difference. This completely foreign script belongs to the group of Semitic scripts, whose independence is definitively established. Their initial letters, Aleph (Greek for Alpha) and Beth, gave the alphabets their names. However, the script of the North has a completely different sequence of letters; it begins with F, and we call it Futhark after the six letters of the first part of the runic alphabet. The fact that individual letters of the Phoenician alphabet resemble those of the Futhark proves, at most, that this trading people also had contact with Germanic peoples and adopted individual letters from their Futhark as well. Tacitus is an objective judge in many matters, and the closer they were to his homeland, the more reliable his judgment was. We therefore have reason to believe him, especially since research has already found, in some courageous pioneers, early advocates of the idea that rune inscriptions considerably older than previously admitted have in fact been discovered. The researcher Evans, for example, points out that the Aryan Aegeans and Mycenaeans already possessed a distinctive alphabetic script that cannot be compared with any other writing system of the Mediterranean world, and it is possible that individual letters from this script passed into the alphabet of the Phoenicians. Runes are said to have originated in the second century AD (after the birth of Christ) on the Black Sea coast, and from there spread across Germany to Scandinavia. That this is impossible in reality can be demonstrated by the fact that inscriptions can already be found throughout the entire region at that time. And it would be impossible to assume such rapid spread across such a vast area. But something far more important argues against this assumption. The runic inscriptions themselves prove that they did not travel from south to north, but rather the other way around, from north to south.

Source: "Woher Stammen Die Runen?" Der Schulungsbrief. Jahrgang 2, Folge 8, August, Franz Eher Nachf Verlag Berlin 1935 p.21 𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔤𝔩ä𝔲𝔟𝔦𝔤𝔨𝔢𝔦𝔱

𝐀𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐟 𝐇𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐱𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲

To keep the SS and Police free of pests with same-sex inclinations, I decree: I. For members of the SS and Police, the following penal provision shall apply in place of Sections 175 and 175a of the Penal Code: Any member of the SS or Police who engages in indecent acts with another man or allows himself to be used for indecent acts by him shall be punished by death. In less serious cases, a sentence of penitentiary or imprisonment of not less than six months may be imposed. In the case of a member of the SS or Police who was under twenty-one years of age at the time of the offense and was seduced into committing the act, the court may, in particularly minor cases, refrain from imposing a penalty. II. The imposition of the penalties threatened under I. is independent of the offender's age. III. The offenses described under I. are subject to the jurisdiction of the SS and Police Special Courts according to the applicable regulations. The jurisdiction of the Wehrmacht courts remains unaffected. IV. The regulations necessary for the implementation and supplementation of this decree shall be issued by the Reichsführer-SS and Chief of the German Police in the Reich Ministry of the Interior. Führer-Hauptquartier, den 15. November 1941.

Source: BArch NS 7/3 Erlass des Führers zur Reinhaltung der SS und Polizei, 15. Nov. 1941 p.219 𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔤𝔩ä𝔲𝔟𝔦𝔤𝔨𝔢𝔦𝔱

𝐌𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡 — 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝

Within it lie the hope and faith, sacrifice and devotion, deeds and works of countless generations. This is a heritage, consecrated and sanctified by the life and death of our ancestors, given to us as a powerful and most beautiful legacy. How many human hands bravely and faithfully built the great home of our hearts – Europe! How many sacrificed, foraged, toiled, suffered, pondered, and endured! Every inch of our earth was painstakingly won and defended anew with death-defying courage. Thus, over the centuries, the Germanic people gradually shaped the landscape, leaving behind the clear outlines of villages, towns, castles, cathedrals, palaces, bridges, roads, and bustling workplaces. This is what appears before our eyes when we say: Mother Earth – Fatherland. From this earth we grew, it embraced us, our homeland gave us the strength for life. Often, the Germanic people underestimated it and were unaware of its value. But when foreign lands surrounded them, it became painfully clear that their homeland is good and unchanging like a mother, never perishable, always ready to receive them and nourish them with strength and faith. It was an arduous path until a man stood up and said in a clear voice that we must grow beyond our love for the soil of our confined homeland and landscape; it was a man who taught us to understand that the richness of our lives lies precisely in the wondrous diversity of the tribal characteristics and landscapes of the Germanic lands, and that only in understanding, appreciating, valuing, and loving all the blood and culture connected peoples of Europe can we render our own homeland the greatest service. For us, Germania is a great, sacred homeland, and every landscape within it is a block of stone; none should be missing, and only together do they form the eternal beauty of our great, Nordic-influenced living space.

Source: “Muttererde – Vaterland” SS Leitheft, 10. Jahrgang, Heft 8 1944 p.46 𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔤𝔩ä𝔲𝔟𝔦𝔤𝔨𝔢𝔦𝔱

𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦

Is it possible today, in 1934, and to what extent is it possible, to speak about the history of National Socialism? In 1933, National Socialism transitioned from the age of the struggle for power to the age of government. With this, it fundamentally changed the nature of its struggle. But it is and remains a process of becoming. We ourselves are all, in some form and to some degree, part of this becoming, which today has become the very becoming of our people. And those of us who have been part of the movement's development for many years can say of the decade that must now be called the "history of National Socialism" what the great historian of our second Reich, Heinrich von Treitschke, said of his German History: that this period speaks of personally experienced suffering and personally experienced happiness. For them, the history of this decade will tell of their own love and hate, their own despair and hope, their own struggles, their own defeat, and their own victory. Perhaps, then, the scholar of the past will argue that it is simply impossible to write a history of National Socialism today; that these years are still too much a matter of passion for us to yet become an object of our understanding. We do not for a moment deny that, purely from a material perspective, later times will be able to gain insights into the past decade that are still closed to us today. [...] Only when the yearning and struggle of this time found the man who, according to Goethe's words, summoned the army of the Gods through his unwavering defiance – only that brought about the fulfillment of the time. It is true that National Socialist ideas existed before and independently of Adolf Hitler. But that is not the crucial point. The crucial point is that the National Socialist idea, as it has become the defining principle of our nation today, could only have been conceived and understood through the personal development of Adolf Hitler.

Source: "Zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus" Wille und Macht. Jahrgang 2, Heft 17, September. Deutscher Jugendverlag Berlin 1934 p.1 𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔤𝔩ä𝔲𝔟𝔦𝔤𝔨𝔢𝔦𝔱

𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 "𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐅𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡":

We National Socialists believe in: 1. The divine. 2. The unity of the universe. 3. Mother Earth. 4. Destiny. 5. The creative power of our blood. 6. Our people and their mission. 7. Our Führer. 8. The National Socialist community. 9. Ourselves. In what way does the Divine manifest itself? The Divine manifests itself in the entire cosmos, in nature, both inanimate and animate. What follows from the fact that the Divine manifests itself everywhere? From the fact that the Divine manifests itself everywhere, it follows that man is a conscious bearer of the Divine. Why is man a conscious bearer of the Divine? Man is a conscious bearer of the Divine because, as a result of his refined cognitive power, he alone is capable of living the divine laws of existence with free will. In what is the Divine most sublimely embodied? The Divine is most sublimely embodied in the people. Why is the Divine most sublimely embodied in the people? The Divine is most sublimely embodied in the people, 1. Because the individual by nature is only a means to the life and being of the people. 2. Because the people are the naturally willed, that is, divine, unity of human life. 3. Because the individual can only develop, that is, live, their fine divine gifts and powers within a people.

Source: Unser Glaube: Bekenntnis eines jungen Deutschen. Nordland Verlag Berlin 1941 p.49 𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔤𝔩ä𝔲𝔟𝔦𝔤𝔨𝔢𝔦𝔱

𝐖𝐢𝐝𝐮𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝; 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐢𝐥

All of Germany is today gripped by a new zest for life, one that with an insurmountable force shatters the old crusts of outdated forms and sets about reshaping the present and the future. One region after another is seized by this life force and transformed from within. It is therefore only natural that the German nation looks back at the past with different eyes and forms its historical narrative based on different values ​​than previously customary. The shadows of the past reappear before our eyes, and much that seemed forgotten is revived, while other figures who stood in the brightest light of previous historiography must step back and make way for seemingly vanished legends. Despite the efforts of many historians, the tragedy at the turn of the 9th century remains unforgettable in the hearts of the people of Lower Saxony. The first Thirty Years' War, between King Charlemagne and Lower Saxony, was a decisive epoch in German history and had consequences that we all still have to bear today. In view of this truly momentous fact, we rise above all petty evaluations, nor do we intend to characterize the figure of King Charlemagne with insulting words; nevertheless, it is clear for today's Germany that we are inwardly not on the side of the Frankish king of that time, but on the side of the fighting Lower Saxons. For the Lower Saxons faced precisely the same fateful struggle at this time as the Germanic princes had when, at the beginning of the Christian era, the Roman legions flooded western Germania. [...] The forms of Roman state and city law transformed the Frankish peasantry into armies, but in doing so, they uprooted the Franks even further and then, under the strong command of King Charlemagne, allowed them to flood back to subjugate their kin in their former homeland. A vicious thirty-year war began and this time ended with the victory of the armies coming from afar over the defenders of blood and soil. In the coming millennium, the influence of legal and state powers in Germany took various forms. Time and again, the internal resistances of the increasingly conscious German nation arose, striving to shape its own life according to its own nature. In German heroic songs, in German urban planning, in German painting, in music and drama, in the struggle for free research and free thought, this painful yet great millennium passed. Until finally, after the most terrible collapse of the German Reich, these individual movements united in their primal Germanic current and won their first decisive victory in the National Socialist worldview and the National Socialist state. With this National Socialist movement, Germany affirms its right to shape its entire life according to its own nature, without recognizing the judgments of other powers as binding upon it. After 1000 years of rule based on the principle first embodied by King Charlemagne, the former will of the Lower Saxons has prevailed in Germany. Germany is thus returning to preserving the character of Hermann, and before our eyes, three decisive figures of the German past and present rise up: first, Hermann as victor in battle against the Roman legions; almost 800 years later, Widukind as the second fighter for blood and soil, as the tragic loser; and 1000 years later, Adolf Hitler as the direct continuation of the work of Hermann the Cheruscan and Duke Widukind.

Source: Gestaltung der Idee, Blut und Ehre, Band II. (1934 Speech at Verden an der Aller) Franz Eher Nachf Verlag München. 1939 p.108 𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔤𝔩ä𝔲𝔟𝔦𝔤𝔨𝔢𝔦𝔱

𝐑𝐮𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐟 𝐇𝐞𝐬𝐬'𝐬 𝐜𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦

One of the great historical achievements of National Socialism is the shattering of all those artificial barriers that separated Germans from one another because of their origin, social class, wealth, or denomination. For a thousand years of glorious history, the often desperate struggle of great Germans has been a constant against the almost fateful tragedy of internal division, which for so long prevented the formation of a unified national state. Adolf Hitler awakened the primal political forces of the people. He founded a Reich whose sole sustaining force is the united, unshakeable community of Germans, and whose ultimate, profound meaning is the happiness and strength of the nation encompassed by this Reich. According to the Führer's will, it is the task of the NSDAP to ensure the preservation of this community of Germans for all time and to guarantee the Reich's powerful external strength through the internal harmony of all politically effective forces. We have therefore fought against and shattered class barriers; we have dealt a death blow to parliamentarism. In our Reich, the Protestant shall be no more important than the Catholic, and the street sweeper no less important than the highest-ranking civil servant; their merit determines whether they can stand before the national community. In the events of the last few months, Adolf Hitler, with relentless consistency, has most convincingly connected the National Socialist policy to the tradition of great German history over the past five years. The power of the heart has finally triumphed over selfish power politics. The days of Austria's return to the Reich, in particular, must have awakened in the memory of every German the images of disastrous petty states and particularistic impotence. May they serve as a sufficient warning forever. More than ever, we are today committed to solving the task facing all of Germany, upon which the future of the Reich decisively depends. The ideology of the supposed individual responsibility of the tribes and states has been overcome once and for all. The fact that in Adolf Hitler's Reich we no longer primarily identify as East Prussians or Bavarians, as Swabians or Saxons, but first and foremost as Germans, demonstrates the extent of the development toward a cohesive, unified German people. We must never tire of preaching this national unity, this primacy of the pan-German stance over the responsibilities of the individual tribes, and hammering it into the consciousness of the German people. Furthermore, all tendencies that hinder the development of a pan-German community and potentially sow the seeds for renewed internal division in the future must be suppressed.

Source: BArch NS 6/229 Anordnung Nr. 71/38, München June 14, 1938 p.103-105 𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔤𝔩ä𝔲𝔟𝔦𝔤𝔨𝔢𝔦𝔱

𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐤𝐚

Swastika – Reich Flag – Reich War Flag! that accompanied their ancestors through the Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, and early history—one that has accompanied the German people through the Middle Ages into the present: 5,000 years of German identity lie within the swastika! At the beginning of our era, the swastika is found so frequently among the Germanic tribes on hundreds of urns filled with cremated remains, on countless pieces of jewelry and weapons, sticks and tools, that one can speak of a Germanic national symbol. And we even find the swastika dating back to around 3,000 years before this time, that is, further back to the Stone Age of the Nordic culture of Northern Germany, from which the later Germanic peoples developed. It is truly connected to our homeland. Now the scholars come along, smirking superiorly, or the world travelers, and say, each convinced of the correctness of their assertion, of course each something different: "The swastika is of Chinese origin!" Or: "It's a purely Native American symbol!" In short, there is nothing that it shouldn't be, and the last thing is this: all peoples have had the swastika and didn't learn it from, borrow it from, or adopt it from another; no, the "idea of ​​nations" is the way out. The human spirit is supposedly so uniform in its organization across the world that it conceived the swastika and made it a symbol in the most diverse places, independently of one another; the swastikas in the many countries supposedly have nothing to do with each other in their origin. That's just as if the Soviet star in Russia had no connection whatsoever with the one in America or France in its origin. We know that, conversely, the closest relationships exist. But what about things that lie so far in the past, as with the history of the swastika? Can we still gain clarity there, can we still reach certain conclusions? We certainly can, and we want to see how this is possible! If one wants to maintain a firm footing, one must begin the study of the swastika's history with the facts of the archaeological record, by thoroughly examining all swastikas found during excavations, which, as we have heard, are spread over five millennia. Only then can one gain a picture of the swastika's migration routes in prehistoric times, by precisely dating each individual artifact and considering its potential significance and meaning. Admittedly, this laborious method is not as easy to implement as other approaches that rely on conjecture and assumptions. Determining the age of all swastika finds reveals that the oldest are located in Europe, and that similarly aged finds are only found along the line of the Indo-Germanic migrations of the Neolithic period, which originated in Europe and extended through Asia Minor to India. The further we move away from this region, the younger the finds become. Within Europe, we find the swastika symbol in the pre-Germanic, Nordic culture of the Neolithic period. [...] We therefore conclude that from its very inception, the swastika was a symbol of the sun, derived from the four-spoked sun wheel, the sun cross. Its fundamental meaning is the sun, and it is self-evident that various other meanings had to arise from this, such as fertility, creation, the source of life, and rebirth.

Source: "Sinn und Weg des Hakenkreuzes" Der Schulungsbrief. Jahrgang II, Folge 12, December. Franz Eher Nachf Verlag Berlin 1935 p.12 𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔤𝔩ä𝔲𝔟𝔦𝔤𝔨𝔢𝔦𝔱

𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡

REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE A GERMAN! Everything you are, you owe not to your own merit, but to your people. Whether you like it or not, you belong to them; for you came from them. Therefore, consider in everything you do whether it benefits your people! KEEP YOUR SPIRIT AND SOUL PURE! Preserve your natural gifts, become what you are capable of being. Keep far from your spirit and soul everything that is inwardly foreign to you, that is contrary to your nature, that makes life unpleasant for you. Excesses on mind and possessions, excesses on quick advancement, excesses on pleasure often lead to forgetting these things. Therefore, be more careful with yourself and, above all, with your future life partner. KEEP YOUR BODY PURE! Preserve the health that your parents have bestowed upon you, so that you may serve your people. Beware of playing with it recklessly and carelessly. The pleasure of a single moment can permanently destroy your health and your genetic heritage, a curse for you, your children, and your grandchildren. What you demand of your future life partner, you must also demand of yourself. Remember that you will become a German ancestor. IF YOU ARE GENETICALLY HEALTHY, YOU SHOULD NOT REMAIN UNBRIDLED! All the qualities of your body and mind perish if you die without offspring. They are an inheritance, a gift from your ancestors. They live on in you in an unbroken chain. Whoever remains unmarried without compelling reason breaks the chain of generations. Your life is finite, but clan and nation endure. Spiritual and physical heritage is resurrected in the children. MARRY ONLY FOR LOVE! Money is a fleeting possession and does not bring lasting happiness. Where the divine spark of love is absent, a good marriage cannot flourish. Richness of heart and soul are the foundations of a lasting and happy marriage. Therefore, let your love not be blind, but discerning and conscious of responsibility! As a German, choose only a husband of the same or similar blood! Where traits match, harmony prevails. Where dissimilar races mix, discord arises. Mixing incompatible races leads to degeneration and ruin in the lives of people and nations, all the more rapidly the less their traits harmonize. Beware of decline! Happiness is only possible among those of the same race. The Nordic bloodline unites the entire German people. Every German shares in it to a greater or lesser degree. To preserve and increase this share is a sacred duty. When choosing your husband, ask about his ancestors! You are not marrying your husband alone, but also his clan and his forebears. Valuable offspring can only be expected where valuable ancestors exist. Gifts of intellect and soul are as much an inheritance as the color of eyes and hair. Bad traits are inherited just as much as good ones. There are not many Koltbarres. The world is like the little nobler reaper; inherited traits cannot be transformed into good ones. Therefore, never marry the only good person from a bad family. HEALTH IS A PRECAUTION FOR EXTERNAL BEAUTY! Health offers the best guarantee for lasting happiness, for it is the prerequisite for outward beauty and inner balance. Demand that your future partner undergo a physical examination for suitability for marriage, just as you yourself must. FIND A COMPANION, NOT A PLAYFUL, FOR MARRIAGE! Marriage is not a temporary game between two people, but a lasting bond. The purpose of marriage is to raise healthy children. Only among people of a similar nature—body, mind, and spirit—can this lofty goal be achieved, for the benefit of themselves and their people, for every race has its own soul. Only such souls will understand one another. A significant age difference between spouses can easily jeopardize the balance of the marriage.

Source: BArch NS 18/71 "Zehn Leitsätze für die Gattenwahl", Schriftenreihe des Reichsausschusses für Volksgesundheitsdienst, Heft 10, 1. Auflage 1934 p.7 𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔤𝔩ä𝔲𝔟𝔦𝔤𝔨𝔢𝔦𝔱