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The Wehrmacht Oath of Loyalty:
"I swear by God this sacred oath that to the Leader of the German empire and people, Adolf Hitler, supreme commander of the armed forces, I shall render unconditional obedience and that as a brave soldier I shall at all times be prepared to give my life for this oath." |
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The SS Oath of Loyalty:
“I vow to you, Adolf Hitler, as Führer and chancellor of the German Reich, loyalty and bravery. I vow to you and to the leaders that you set for me, absolute allegiance until death. So help me God.” |
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The SS-man vowed loyalty and bravier and “absolute obedience unto death.”
In his "Oath of Loyalty," the German Soldier stated: “I shall render unconditional obedience and shall at all times be prepared to give my life for this oath.”
Viewed as aggressive, brutal and violent, paradoxically the posture of the German warrior was one of abject, absolute submission.
The Holocaust victim, too, was compelled to become "obedient unto death." His posture, too, was one of abject, absolute submission.
The German warrior received “honor” and “glory” by virtue of willingness to submit absolutely to Hitler and Germany.
The absolute submission of the Jew at the hands of Hitler and Germany, of course, brought no such honor or glory. The Jew in the death camps enacted the motto of the SS-man--obedience unto death--stripped of honor and glory.
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