The Hard Ideal Values Of Heinrich Himmler (SS)

The ‘hard’ ideal values of the SS including showing hatred to the ‘inferior’ were what stopped many possible Jewish uprising. After the murder of Ernst Rohm and the SA leadership, Hitler announced that the SS would be an independent organisation led by Heinrich Himmler. By 1933 the SS grew to have hundreds of members that were fanatically loyal to Adolf Hitler and his philosophy. The SS soldiers were made to feel great about themselves Hitler referring to them as the ‘master race’, the soldiers were heavily educated on anti-Semitism and violence. The SS was the ideological organisation responsible for all matters of security in Germany, and believed “The best political weapon is terror”, the SS had power over both the military and police. Due to the a lack of weapons and resources, fear, and the overwhelming power the SS had over civilians and their collaborators, it made it extremely difficult for the Jews to ever lead a rebellion. Overall the power the SS eluded over the Jews was what made so many hesitant to lead a revolt in fear of fellow Jews lives being at risk, and rarely their were acts of defiance, refer to Source 2. In addition to controlling the police and the military, the SS administered, developed and controlled the Nazi concentration camp system. …show more content…
Heinrich Himmler, Hitler’s number one right-hand man, the person oversaw all concentration camps and was very probably the most evil Nazi, is being stared down. The shirtless man is an unnamed Soviet POW; to look Himmler in the face like that you would have had to be a hard man. The act of defiance was rare and this single man who after losing so much, stands up and stares at Himmler himself, whilst everyone else sits down in fear of their lives. This image is defiance, an open act of resistance, something the SS very much so sacred out of too many Jewish