This is a key passage in terms of Himmler’s relation to Hitler. He is according him the status which St Paul accorded God. If it is a true reflection of his belief, it shows that he needed to surrender himself totally, and had merely substituted Hitler and the National Socialist Weltanschauung for his youthful faith in Christ and the Catholic religion. It is also a key paragraph for understanding the SS and its place in the spectrum of Prusso-German history and Prussian soldierly values.
