One should never forget, that Hitler was founded the SS, to have an opposing against the SA. Therefore, all decision-makers of the SS-founding generation knew, which was one of the essential main tasks: to protect Hitler. The killing of the SA-leader Röhm is therefore a prime example of the bondage of the SS against the "Führer". It is significant, that most SS units in Berlin in 1945 rendered the fiercest resistance. At a time, when many key commanders of the Wehrmacht saw, that the war was lost.
Fanaticism for the "leader" Hitler was an essential element of the SS. This is a fact of the historian's view. I do not claim, that every young SS soldier knews, that his unit was a unit of ideology and crime! Many things happened for a time-bound false idealism. But the final bill of this force must be very negative.
But you must allways know: The youth of 1939/45 was not not the generation, that had selected Hitler in 1933!
The real culprits of the war are very often looking at the generation of parents, teachers and politicians.
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