DR. STAHMER: When and with what aims was the SS created?
GÖRING: The SS was created while I was abroad; I think it was in 1926 or 1927. Its purpose, as far as I remember, was to form, first of all, within the Movement a specially picked body as a protection for the person of the Führer. Originally it was extremely small.
DR. STAHMER: Did you at any time belong to the SS?
GÖRING: I never belonged to the SS in any way, at any time, neither actively nor passively.
DR. STAHMER: The assumption that you were a general in the SS is therefore incorrect?
GÖRING: Yes, absolutely incorrect.
DR. STAHMER: What did you understand by the term “master race”?
GÖRING: I myself understood nothing by it. In none of my speeches, in none of my writings, will you find that term. It is my view that if you are a master you have no need to emphasize it.
DR. STAHMER: What do you understand by the concept “living space”?
GÖRING: That conception is a very controversial one. I can fully understand that powers who together—I refer only to the four signatory powers—call more than three-quarters of the world their own, explain this idea differently. But for us, where 144 people live in 1 square kilometer, the words “living space” meant the proper relation between a population and its nourishment, its growth, and its standard of living.