Time to understand the meaning of Hitler's murderous reign of terror, once and for all. Please take a look first at the passage on the lower right, Hitler's declaration of war on September 1, 1939.

(1) Hitler himself (conceiving himself as a "German soldier") is ready to wage war on the Eastern front. War against Great Britain wasn't Hitler's cup of tea.

(2) He asks of Germans to "do what he was prepared to do at any moment:" to "lay down his life."

• (A) As far as he himself was concerned, Hitler was true to his word: he laid down his life (committed suicide). 
   
• He then asked every German to do what he was going to do: to lay down his or her life for "his people an for his country."
  
  Soldiers and SS men were required to be "obedient unto death." This is the SACRIFICIAL MOTIF I've been writing about endlessly. No mention of conquest, etc.--the wet dream of historians and those who watch and thrill to the "history channel" (the "Hitler channel as Michael Vlahos calls it).

(3) Then the crucial passage: Anyone who thinks that he can "evade this national duty" would perish. The national duty was to "lay down one's life for Germany."

Those who thought they could evade the national duty (to lay down one's life for Germany) would perish. 

In other words, if one failed in performing the national duty (laying down one's life), this individual would perish (i. e., would be killed).

This was Hitler's ideology in a nutshell: lay down your life (die for Germany voluntarily) or--if you resist this national duty (to lay down one's life) one will "perish" in any case, i. e., be killed.

In short, DIE FOR GERMANY, OR WE WILL KILL YOU. 

This was Hitler's philosophy--and what actually happened during the Nazi era: people sacrificed their lives for Germany willingly. 

Or, those who refused or were unable to sacrifice their lives willingly--were compelled to sacrifice their lives. They were killed--died for Germany.

Richard Koenigsberg