Speeches to SS officers at Posen (October 1943) and Kharkow (April 1943), on the character and duties of SS men, the SS leaders and program, including "the extermination of the Jewish race," and future plans

PS-1919: Speech by Himmler on the occasion of the Ss group leader meeting in Posen, 4 October 1943: elaboration of the theme: other peoples are to be looked on as slaves in the service of German culture; observations on Russians, Italians; rescue of Mussolini by the Ss; situation and morale in Germany; assessment of allied situation; Ss ideals and plans for the future

PS-1919: Exhibit # , Book #66B, page , Reichsfuehrer SS Himmler's speeches of April 1943 and October 4 1943 at Kharken and Posen to the SS Leaders. Testimony of witness Hans Juettner shows that attendance was compulsory. The speech at Posen contains an account of what is expected of an SS man and clearly indicates knowledge of the criminal activities of the SS to all listeners and readers:

But is is a crimes against our own blood to worry about them and give them ideals, thus causing our sons and grandsons to have more difficult time with them. When somebody comes to me and says, 'I cannot dig the anti-tank ditch with women and children, it is inhuman, for it would kill them,' then I have to say, 'You are a murderer of your own blood because if the anti-tank ditch is not dug, German soldiers will die, and they are sons of German mothers. They are our own blood.' That is what I want to instill into this SS and what I believe have instilled into them as one of the most sacred laws of the future. Our concern, our duty is our people and our blood. It is for them that we must provide and plan, work and fight, nothing else. We can be indifferent to everything else, I wish the SS to adopt this attitude to the problem of all foreign, non-Germanic peoples, especially Russians. All else is vain, fraud against our own nation and an obstacle to the early winning of the war."

those who talk this way has witnessed it, not one of them has been through it. Most of you must know what it means when 100 corpses are lying side by side, or 500 or 1000. To have stuck it out and at the same time - apart from exceptions caused by human weakness - to have remained decent fellows, that is what has made us hard. This is a page of glory in our history which has never been written and is never to be (p. 66) written, for we know how difficult we should have made it for ourselves if - with the bombing raids, the burdens and the deprivations of war - we still had Jews today in every town as secret saboteurs, agitators and troublemongers, We would now probably have reached the 1916/17 stage when the Jews were still in the German national body."

to recruit again, - that I think, taking the broad view, would be absolutely wrong. That could not be advocated,

Speech of the Reichsfuehrer SS Himmler at the meeting of SS Gruppenfuehrers at Posen on 4 October 1943.