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"Of the seventeen members of the leadership cadre of Einsatzgruppe A, all without exception long-standing employees in the SS and police apparatus, there were, for example, eleven lawyers, nine of whom had doctorates; thirteen had joined the NSDAP or one of its affiliated organizations before 1933."

"One result of Hess’s flight was a Gestapo campaign in June against astrologers, clairvoyants, dowsers, spiritualists, and representatives of other occult teachings, which Hess in part espoused; this was a means of providing evidence to show the outside world that Hess had quite simply been the victim of mumbo-jumbo."
Himmler visited similar circles, which complicated matters for him.

"Bormann, who was now head of the Party Chancellery, was friendly with Himmler. They both belonged to the radical wing of the party and this expressed itself, for example, in the strong anticlericalism that was fundamental to both of them."

Himmler:
"I recognize the difficulties facing the men of the SS in the General Government from a sexual point of view. I do not, therefore, object to sex in brothels or with prostitutes subject to medical and police supervision, as neither procreation nor close personal relations are likely to occur as a result."

"During the following years the SS, by buying up firms, tried to acquire a monopoly of mineral-water production in order to break the cartel that was assumed to operate in this market. By 1944 75 per cent of German mineral-water production was in the hands of the SS; Himmler’s efforts, initially focused solely on reforming SS members, had acquired their own momentum."
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"Furthermore, the Reich Criminal Police Office ordered that all people who, on account of ‘mental instability’, were suspected of spreading discontent among the population should be taken into preventive police custody."

After the Lombards, alienating property became easy in Italy compared to France.

"In March 1942 Himmler’s population experts reckoned that, of the total of 510,000 people who were being resettled, only barely 287,000 had been ‘settled’ in the annexed eastern territories and 93,000 in the Old Reich (most of them housed in provisional accommodation). That meant there were still 131,000 people in the camps."
Humiliating.

"By the time of his dismissal in December 1939 he [Curt von Gottberg] had confiscated a total of 256,000 hectares of land for the SS and its settlement associations, and had secured for the Land Office, through transfer to an intermediate foundation, a total of 145,000 hectares of state forest. Property was expropriated from Jews, as well as from the Catholic Church and the state."

"The pogrom was followed by a wave of anti-Semitic legislation. Jews were largely excluded from further economic activity, their businesses were compulsorily ‘aryanized’, their insurance claims arising out of the damage caused by the pogrom were nullified. Instead, they were obliged to pay an ‘atonement contribution’ amounting to 1 billion Reich marks."

"Alvarez, Rodrigo. Born in Lebrija (Seville) in 1523, he entered the Society of Jesus when already a priest and over 40 years old. Before his entry into the Society he underwent imprisonment by the Inquisition in Seville, but was then set free. He later became a qualifier for this same Inquisition."

"When word reached her of his [Baltasar Alvarez'] death, she wept for over an hour and no one could console her. When asked why she was weeping that much since she was so detached from the things of the world, she replied: "I am weeping because I know what a great loss this is to the Church of God; and she then went into a rapture for two hours.""

"The Nazis recruited disproportionately from the Mittelstand in the years following the formation of their party in January 1919. But they were also able to secure significant support both from the working class and from the elite, giving the party a heterogeneous social base."

"There were refugees, to be sure, and we meet them all over the Roman East in particular: it seems that the senatorial and municipal elites who were unwilling to make their peace with the new order saw their chances in the East as substantially better than in the West."

"How right the bride of the Canticles is in saying: My Beloved is for me and I for my Beloved and my Beloved for me, for it is impossible that a love like this begin with something so lowly as is my love."

"O Jesus, how long is the life of humans, even though it is said to be short! It is short, my God, for gaining through it a life that cannot end; but it is very long for the soul that desires to come into the presence of its God."

"The idea that the imperial government did not just cede territory but admitted to having done so was an ideological turning point of real significance."

"O blessed souls who with this precious price knew so well how to profit and buy an inheritance so delightful and permanent, tell us how you gained such an unending good! Help us, since you are so near the fount; draw water for those here below who are perishing of thirst."

"Thus, in 1944 Himmler allowed a married Obersturmbannführer, who on account of his wife’s ‘nervous condition’ was unwilling to leave her, to cohabit with another woman. That was, however, with the proviso that the new relationship produced children."