Practically all the love objects claimed by Freikorps man are to be found in Himmler’s diaries and letters and are later repeated again and again in his speeches; they include the Fatherland, the soil of the homeland, the German people, the Germanic blood community, the uniform, comrades, superiors, subordinates, weapons and fighting. Thewelweit concludes from his study: ‘In other words these men claim to “love” the very things that protect them against real love-object relations.’
