‘I prayed with them. I pressed myself into a corner and cried out to my God and theirs. How glad I should have been to go into the gas chambers with them! Then an SS officer in uniform would have been found in the gas chambers.’

– SS-Obersturmführer Kurt Gerstein

‘I swear to thee Adolf Hitler

As Führer and Chancellor of the German Reich

Loyalty and Bravery.

I vow to thee and to the superiors

whom thou shalt appoint

Obedience unto death

So help me God.’

– SS Oath