Himmler’s SS morality confined decency strictly to one’s own racial group.

Evidence

Himmler believed and preached that the whole SS was based on the principle that “we must be honest, decent, loyal and comradely to members of our own blood and nobody else” (op. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2682

Categorization

  • XREF: A concrete instance of the moral boundary-drawing mechanism that the reader’s later Islamophobia readings will encounter—in-group ethics coexisting with out-group atrocity.