The SS-man was instructed to become "obedient unto death" and vowed to follow these instructions.

If the "best" human beings had to accept this fate, Hitler reflected, why should the "worst" human beings be exempt from this fate?

The silly idea that Germans and Jews were antithetical categories. 

They were, in actuality, two peas in a pod, compelled to die when Hitler and Germany asked them to do so. The difference was in the methodology that brought about death: poison gas for Jews, bullets for German soldiers, bombing for German civilians. 

Koenigsberg