What the "Todesrune" means for authoritarian systems?

Kimmo Huosionmaa

"Todesrune" is the symbol of opposite morale than Nazis and Waffen-SS had, and it meant the death of an authoritarian and totalitarian system. When we are talking about the “Lebensrune" and “Todesrune" we must notice that Waffen-SS official way to think was different than normal persons have, and this is why the death of Third Reich means to live for that personnel, who were persecuted by the Nazis. The official way of thinking in that organization was that weak persons must die, and also the henchmen had the responsibility to give their lives if their superiority ordered to make the suicide. In this notorious organization had only one law.


The henchmen must do exactly, what the superiority ordered. Without making any questions about the orders what they got. And that was the rule even for the highest rank officials, whose orders were to carry the cyanide tablets in their pocket or hollow teeth in their mouth because the suicide made them choose to avoid the imprisonment. And this “helped to keep military secrets” like holocaust and the concentration camps hidden from the public. The way of life in that organization was death and violence. That’s the way the normal persons must think opposite way than some SS-man thinks. This is the reason why SS symbol “Todesrune" is actually the offer of life to normal people. The way of thinking in the one of the most brutal political army in the history was very egocentric.


 In that military organization everything what the leaders or the commanders said was right. And that gave those men right for the mass murders. In this way of thinking the death of the SS mean life for another person's. We must say that this notorious organization was the top of the totalitarianism and militarism. The form of those organizations is that all totalitarian states will force all the people in the same model. Individualism is the worst what could be done in the totalitarian system.



In those systems, the only purpose of the human is to serve the superiority and the person can’t serve authorities, this means that the person is useless. In those systems the superiority afraid the “Fractal effect" what is actually known as the “butterfly effect". In all very well organized and organized systems the disturb will be seen very far, and in one theory is mentioned the situation, where the butterfly strikes it wings, will that cause the whirl what will be strong and then it will transfer to the hurricane. In the systems like military forces, all disturbing might be very well seen, and that will grow to all the regiment size rebellion. And that's the reason, why all military forces will give extreme hard punishments to the persons what it seems to disturb the service. And that is the reason why “Todesrune” is live for others.