The Heroic Attitude of Our Race

WHO IS THERE among us who does not, deep in his heart – provided he can still think with his blood – have a profound, strangely haunting sense of shame, when, walking through the German countryside, before the panorama perhaps of snow-covered Alpine mountain tops or in the midst of a somber Westphalian heath, he comes across a picture of the

crucified Jesus?

THE GODS OF OUR ANCESTORS looked different. They were men, and had a weapon in their hand, symbolizing the attitude of life that is inherent in our Race – that of action, that of a man’s responsibility to himself. How different the pale crucified one, expressing, by his passive attitude and by his decided look of suffering, humility and extreme self-surrender, qualities which contradict the basic heroic attitude of our Race.

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About: This is an excerpt from an editorial which appeared in Das Schwarze Korps, weekly newspaper of the SS, on June 13, 1939.

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