“A very difficult question confronted us at that time. It was a question of deciding whether to close the Party and its organizations to further membership and thus remain pure in quality but small in volume, or of opening them to further membership to increase their volume.”
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“The SS too was endangered by this menace. Therefore I closed it while some of the other organizations accepted as great a number of people as possible. This way I had the SS again under my control in April and said: We shall accept no more people. From the end of 1933 to the end of 1935 we expelled all those of the newly accepted members who proved unsuitable.” (1992-A-PS)
These standards were not abandoned later. Indeed, in 1943 the Organizations Book of the Nazi Party stated that:
“The demands with respect to racial purity of the SS are being increased every year.”
And in the same year, 1943, Himmler emphasized this point in a letter written to Kaltenbrunner (2768-PS).
This letter from the Reichsfuehrer SS, which bears the date 24 April 1943, states in part as follows:
“Referring again to the matter which I discussed some time ago, i.e., the admission of SIPO officials into the SS. I wish to clarify again: I want an admission only if the following conditions are fulfilled:
“1.
If the man applies freely and voluntarily;