Free The Auslander by Paul Dowswell

‘It will be a good introduction to what I do. You may even decide you want to follow this particular path yourself. I will arrange for you to be excused from school.’
    When the day came, Peter and Frau Kaltenbach sat at the back of the lecture theatre at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. The room buzzed with a low hum of conversation as the audience waited for the Professor to arrive. There was a smattering of ordinary medical students, but most of those present were young men dressed in the black uniform of the SS. They were this year’s intake of trainee military doctors, sent for a ten-month course on the intricacies of Racial Science. Seen together, thought Peter, they were an intimidating bunch of stern Aryan übermenschen .
    Peter was nervous. He had an awful feeling that Kaltenbach was going to call him to the front during his lecture and parade him as ‘a perfect example of the Nordic race’. He had heard the phrase often in the last three weeks and it made him squirm.
    Kaltenbach swept in and the room immediately fell silent. He stood at the lectern and tapped his papers, took a sip of water from the glass that had been left there and then began to speak in a clear, confident voice.
    â€˜Gentlemen,’ he boomed, ‘and ladies.’ He nodded indulgently to the small number of female medical students, who had clustered together to the right of the room. ‘You are the sentinels of the nation’s genetic health, and you must be ever vigilant as it flows through the generations.’
    He paused dramatically, to let the significance of his words sink in.
    â€˜I offer you a vision of a world free from illness, criminality, asocials, prostitutes, beggars and the work-shy, and the bacillus of world Jewry . . . You are the foot soldiers of this future utopia. Servants to the National Socialist vision.
    â€˜But to attain this dream you must discard false notions of humanity.’ He paused. They were hanging on his every word. ‘I am reminded forcibly of the words of Reichsminister Goebbels as he addressed the Party Congress in 1938.
    â€˜â€œOur starting point is not the individual, and we do not subscribe to the view that one should feed the hungry and clothe the naked . . . Our objectives are entirely different. They can be put most crisply in the sentence: we must have a healthy people in order to prevail in the world.”
    â€˜I am sure I need not remind you of all the racial laws passed by the National Socialists since we came to power. Today marriages likely to produce offspring prejudicial to the purity of German blood are an impossibility in the Reich.’
    Kaltenbach went on to outline the role of his department in this great revolution – and how their mission in the world was to unearth the biological foundations of human difference. He said especially that identifying Jews was Racial Science’s greatest challenge. He outlined the cutting edge work carried out at the Institute – the blood serum and iris research in racial diagnosis – and how this would sweep away the time-consuming and costly procedures currently in place.
    Peter didn’t understand most of what he was saying, but he felt proud of Professor Kaltenbach’s ability to fascinate his audience. After forty minutes or so, the Professor began to summarise.
    â€˜In Mein Kampf the Führer wrote “The nation state must set race in the centre of all life. It must take care to keep it pure. It must put the most modern medical means in the service of this knowledge.”
    â€˜We live at a unique time. Never before in human history has a government been so ready to grasp the essential truths of Racial Science. And never before has that science been so ready to serve the interest of the state.
    â€˜When our National Socialist future is ensured there is nothing to stop the regeneration of the German people and our creation of a galaxy of genius – übermensch destined