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faulty conduct of an individual harms this individual himself and thus also the community." (6) Hoheitstraeger. Within the Leadership Corps of the Nazi Party certain of the Political Leaders possessed a higher degree of responsibility than others, were vested with special prerogatives, and constituted a distinctive and...
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Gaue Speakers of the NSDAP; the Lieutenant Generals and Major Generals of SA, SS, NSFK, and NSKK; Lieutenant Generals and Major Generals of the HJ." (2660-PS) The fact that this magazine existed, that it derived it name from the Commanding Officers of the Leadership Corps, that it was distributed to the elite of the Le...
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the NSDAP." (1893-PS) Each Political Leader was sworn in yearly. According to the Party Manual (1893-PS), the wording of the oath was as follows: "I pledge eternal allegiance to Adolf Hitler. I pledge unconditional obedience to him and the Fuehrers appointed by him." (1893-PS) The Organization Book of the NSDAP also pr...
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action. "In appointing leaders of the HJ and the DJ, the office of the HJ must procure the approval of the Hoheitstraeger of his zone. This means that the Hoheitstraeger can prevent the appointment of leaders unsuited for the leadership of youth. If his approval has not been procured, an appointment may be cancelled if...
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Fuehrer, dated 26 June 1935, provided the following: "In order to effect a closer contact between the offices of the Party and its organizations with the Directors of the Secret State Police [Gestapo], the Deputy of the Fuehrer requests that the Directors of the Gestapo be invited to attend all of the larger official r...
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with the leaders of the SA, SS, NSKK, HJ, as well as the RAD and the NSFK who are within the zone for the purpose of mutual orientation." (1893-PS) The Organization Book of the Party imposes a similar requirement of regular and periodical conferences and meetings upon all the other Hoheitstraeger, including the Kreisle...
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in the lower levels of the Leadership Corps organization such as the Kreise, Ortsgruppen, and so on. The Kreise and the smaller territorial areas of the Party were also organized into staff offices dealing with the various activities of the Leadership Corps. But, of course, the importance and the number of such staff o...
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and conquest. The first point required the incorporation of all Germans into a Greater German Reich. Point 2 demanded unilateral abolition of the Peace Treaties of Versailles and St. Germain. Point 3 stated the demand for "land and soil" (colonies). Point 4 proclaimed the Nazi doctrines of racial discrimination and ant...
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Hitler as the supreme leader, but also to the Political Leaders under him, and thus permeated the entire Leadership Corps: "The basis of the party Organization is the Fuehrer thought * * * All Political Leaders stand as appointed by the Fuehrer and are responsible to him. They possess full authority toward the lower ec...
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as follows: "The National Socialist German Workers' Party constitutes the only political party in Germany. Whoever undertakes to maintain the organizational structure of another political party or to form a new political party will be punished with penal servitude up to three years or with imprisonment of from six mont...
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Corps' control of the Cabinet was further solidified. The dominant position of the Leadership Corps is further revealed by the provision that the Reichs-Chancellor would issue the regulations carrying out this law in his capacity as Fuehrer of the Nazi Party. The fact that Hitler, as Fuehrer of the Leadership Corps, co...
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imposed heavy penalties upon any person making false statements injuring the welfare or prestige of the Nazi Party or its agencies. It authorized the imprisonment of persons making or circulating malicious or baiting statements against leading personalities of the Nazi Party. And it provided punishment by forced labor ...
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He filled it with his spirit and his will and with it he conquered the power of the State on 30 January 1933. the Fuehrer's will is supreme in the Party. "By authority of the law about the Chief of State of the German Reich, dated 1 August 1934, the office of the Reich President has been combined with that of the Reich...
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or annihilation, the Fuehrer must have all the rights postulated by him which serve to further or achieve victory. Therefore-without being bound by existing legal regulations-in his capacity as Leader of the Nation, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, Governmental Chief and Supreme Executive Chief, as Supreme Justic...
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am the authorized leader of this Reich." (2715-PS) The supreme power which the Leadership Corps exercised over the German State and Government is sharply pointed up by an article published in the February 1939 issue of the authoritative magazine, "Der Hoheitstraeger". In this article, addressed to all Hoheitstraeger, t...
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the "spontaneous uprising of the people" against the Jews throughout Germany on 9 and 10 November 1938 in connection with the assassination of an official of the German Embassy in Paris on 7 November. (The evidence relating to these programs is discussed in Chapter XI on the concentration camps, and Chapter XII on the ...
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Allied fliers shot down over Germany (1676-PS). After alleging that Anglo-American pilots have engaged in machine gun attacks against civilians, Goebbels continues: "It is only possible with the aid of arms to secure the lives of enemy pilots who were shot down during such attacks, for they would otherwise be killed by...
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sentiment will have to account to me. All police and gendarmerie officials are to be informed immediately of this, my attitude." (L-154). The obligations of belligerents towards prisoners of war are clearly set forth in the Geneva Prisoners of War Convention of 27 July 1929, which was ratified by both Germany and the U...
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Chief of Staff stated that his object was to give a review of the strategic position at the outset of the fifth year of war. He stated his realization that the Political Leaders in the Reich and Gau areas, in view of their burdensome tasks in supporting the German War Effort, were in need of information he could give. ...
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Estonia and Latvia * * * will have to be under German Leadership and, as military education camps of the Hitler Youth, they must be a symbol of our educational mission beyond Germany's borders * * * I consider the execution of the military education of the Estonian and Latvian youth not only a military necessity, but a...
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Minister for Justice disagreed, "the opinion of Reichsleiter Bormann will be brought to bear on the case, and he will possibly inform the Fuehrer * * *. "The delivery of antisocial elements from execution of their sentence to the Reich Fuehrer of SS to be worked to death. Persons under protective arrest, Jews, Gypsies,...
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territories, Reichsfuehrer SS Himmler, in his capacity as Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationhood, issued several decrees requiring the deportation to Germany of all Germans from such territories who had renounced their nationality during the existence of the Polish State (R-112). These decrees di...
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by SS-Gruppenfuehrer Kaul, held at the Gauleiter office at Karlsruhe for the purpose of considering the deportation of Alsatians into Germany, states that the Gauleiter had reported to the Fuehrer with respect to the proposed evacuation of Alsatians. It is further stated that the Fuehrer verbally declared that "asocial...
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(d) Subversion of Christian Church and Persecution of the Clergy. The evidence relating to the systematic effort of the conspirators to eliminate the Christian churches in Germany is discussed in Section 6 of Chapter VII. The evidence hereinafter taken up is limited to proving the responsibility of the Leadership Corps...
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astrologers, seers and other fakers are eliminated and suppressed by the State, so must the possibility of Church influence also be totally removed. Not until this has happened, does the State leadership have influence on the individual citizens. Not until then are people and Reich secure in their existence for all the...
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construct a Christian teaching which would be completely compatible with the point of view of the National Socialist ideology; just as the communications of Christian faith would never be able to stand by the ideology of National Socialism in its entirety * * *." (098-PS) After discussing various proposals for the form...
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A Gestapo telegram, dated 24 July 1938, dispatched from Berlin to Nurnberg, deals with demonstrations and acts of violence against Bishop Sproll in Rottenburg (848-PS). The Gestapo office in Berlin wired its Nurnberg office the following teletype account received from its Stuttgart office of disorderly conduct and vand...
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Party offices and the Armed Forces would be denied." (849-PS) Kerrl further stated in the foregoing letter that his Deputy had moved the Foreign Office, through the German embassy at the Vatican, to urge the Holy See to persuade Bishop Sproll to resign his Bishopric. Kerrl concluded by stating that should the effort to...
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itself multiplied its representations and protests to governing authorities in Germany, reminding them, in clear and energetic language, of their duty to respect and fulfill the obligations of the natural law itself that were confirmed by the Concordat. In those critical years, joining the alert vigilance of a Pastor t...
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Gauleiter in measures relating to the confiscation of religious property (072-PS). The letter reads in part as follows: "The libraries and art objects of the monasteries confiscated in the Reich were to remain for the time being in these monasteries, insofar as the Gauleiter had not determined otherwise." (072-PS) On 2...
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in the incorporated Eastern countries with regard to seizure and confiscation of Church property. "As soon as the Reich Laws on expropriation had been introduced, the Reich Governor and Gauleiter in the Wartheland adopted the practice of expropriating real estate belonging to churches for use as dwellings. He grants co...
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powers from the Fuehrer and I guarantee that I shall succeed in a few months in establishing peace with the churches for all times.' After this catastrophic ignorance, I gave up the conversation. Dear Party Member Hess: the reading of von Rabenau's pamphlet 'Spirit and Soul of the Soldier' has reminded me again of this...
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confessions are administering spiritually to members of the Armed Forces. This administering finds its expression especially in the fact that soldiers are being sent religious publications by the spiritual leaders of the home congregations. These publications are, in part, very cleverly composed. I have repeated report...
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Bormann informed the Minister as to the Party's position in favor of restricting and suppressing theological faculties. Bormann stated that, owing to the effects of the introduction of military service, the consequences of the Four Year Plan, and the extraordinary lack of replacements, it would become necessary to carr...
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Reichsleiter Ley, in his speech to the Nurnberg Party Congress of 1936, declared: "* * * My Fuehrer! When you, my Fuehrer, ordered me in mid-April 1933 to take over the trade unions, I could not understand why you gave this order to me since I could not see any connection between my task as Organizational Leader of the...
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Gauleiter are responsible for the execution of the coordination action in the individual areas. Supporters of the action should be members of the national Socialist Factory Cell Organizations * * *. "SA as well as SS are to be employed for the occupation of trade union properties and for taking into protective custody ...
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most stringent control has been organized over financial and personnel matters of the organization." (2224-PS) This assault on the independent unions directed by Ley in his capacity as Reichsleiter in charge of Party Organization, assisted by the Gauleiter and Party Formations, included the seizure of trade union funds...
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labor, the members of the Leadership Corps joined in and directed measures designed to replace the independent unions by the German Labor Front, the DAF, an affiliated Party organization. On the very day the Nazi conspirators seized and dissolved the Free Trade Unions, 2 May 1933, they publicly proclaimed that a "unite...
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carrier of the organization of the German Labor Front. "The duties and responsibilities of the NSBO have passed over to the DAF. "The political leaders who have been transferred from the NSBO to the German Labor Front guarantee the ideological education of the DAF in the spirit of the National Socialistic idea." (2271-...
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19 April 1941, concerning confiscation of property, especially of art treasures in the East. (USA 357) ........... III 122 *089-PS Letter from Bormann to Rosenberg, 8 March 1940, instructing Amann not to issue further newsprint to confessional newspapers. (USA 360) ..... III 147 *090-PS Letter from Rosenberg to Schwarz...
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(Berlin, 1938). (USA 326).............. III 380 405-PS Law Concerning Trustees of Labor, 19 May 1933. 1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 285..... III 387 *407-V and VI-PS Letter from Sauckel to Hitler, 15 April 1943, concerning labor questions. (USA 209; USA 228)... III 391 *630-PS Memorandum of Hitler, 1 September 193...
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for the reestablishment of the Professional Civil Service, 7 April 1933. 1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 175............. III 981 1398-PS Law to Supplement the Law for the restoration of the Professional Civil Service, 20 July 1933. 1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 518..... III 986 1402-PS The homestead Law of 29 ...
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Organization Book of the NSDAP, 1936 edition, p. 211...... IV 457 1855-PS Extract from Organization Book of the NSDAP, 1937, p. 418............... IV 495 1861-PS Law on the regulation of national labor, 20 january 1934. 1934 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 45... IV 497 *1893-PS Extracts from Organization Book of the NSDA...
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p. 1. ........... IV 868 2230-PS Agreement between Ley and Lutze, chief of staff of SA, published in Organization Book of NSDAP, 1938, pp. 484-485b, 486c............. IV 871 2270-PS Coordination of Cooperatives, published in National Socialist Party Press Agency release of 16 May 1933 ........ IV 938 2271-PS The Nation...
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be taken against pilots who are shot down. (USA 335).............. IV 904 *L-172 "The Strategic Position at the Beginning of the 5th Year of War", a lecture delivered by Jodl on 7 November 1943 at Munich to Reich and Gauleiters. (USA 34).. IV 920 *L-221 Bormann report on conference of 16 July 1941, concerning treatment...
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Avalon Home Document Collections Ancient 4000bce - 399 Medieval 400 - 1399 15 th Century 1400 - 1499 16 th Century 1500 - 1599 17 th Century 1600 - 1699 18 th Century 1700 - 1799 19 th Century 1800 - 1899 20 th Century 1900 - 1999 21 st Century 2000 - Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Volume 2 Chapter XV Part 3 Chapter XV...
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the leading Nazi trusted henchmen. Then, when new governmental agencies or bodies were created, either by Hitler or by the Cabinet itself, the constituents of these new bodies were taken from the rolls of the ordinary cabinet. When the first Hitler Cabinet was formed on 30 January 1933, there were 10 ministries which c...
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Chancellery contains a typewritten copy of the decree of Hitler establishing that post (1997-PS). The decree provides: "Decree of the Fuehrer concerning the administration of the newly-occupied Eastern Territories dated 17 July 1941." "In order to maintain public order and public life in the newly-occupied Eastern terr...
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of Reich Minister. The Cabinet also contained other functionaries, such as State Ministers acting as Reich Ministers. Only two persons fell within this category-the Chief of the Presidential Chancellery, Otto Meissner, and the State Minister of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Karl Hermann Frank. In addition, a...
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the Army, Navy, and OKW heads, had the rank and authority of a Reich Minister. (3) The Council of Ministers for the Defense of the Reich. On 30 August 1939 Hitler established the Council of Ministers for the Defense of the Reich (better known as the Ministerial Council). This was the so-called war cabinet. The decree e...
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Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, The President of the Reichsbank Directorate. The other Reich Ministers and the Reich offices directly subordinate to the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor are consulted if necessary. Further personalities can be called as the case demands." (2194-PS) On that date all t...
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or decree, to all members of the Reich Cabinet. A period of time was allowed for objections, after which the law considered as being accepted by the various members of the Cabinet. This procedure continued throughout the whole war. It was followed also in the Council of Ministers for Defense of the Reich (Ministerrat f...
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Stutterheim, who was an official of the Reich Chancellery, comments on this procedure at page 34 of a pamphlet entitled "Die Reichskanzlei": "* * * It must be noted that the peculiarity in this case is that the subjects dealt with by the Cabinet Council- (Council, of Ministers for the Defense of the Reich), are distrib...
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by the following excerpt from the minutes of the same date (8 September 1939): "The Council of Ministers for the Reich Defense ratified the decree for the change of the Labor Service Law which had already been passed as law by the Reich Cabinet. (Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, page 1744.)" The minutes of the meeting of 19 ...
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Powers of The Reichsregierung. But mere working alliances would be meaningless unless there was power. And the Reichsregierung had power. Short of Hitler himself, it had practically all the power a government can exercise. (1) The Ordinary Cabinet. The Nazi conspirators secured the passage by the Reichstag of the "Law ...
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cabinet, questions were bound to arise as to what forum should lend its name to a particular law. Dr. Lammers, Chief of the Reich Chancellery and a member of both agencies, wrote a letter on 14 June 1942 to the Plenipotentiary for Reich Administration about these questions (352-PS): "To the Plenipotentiary for the Reic...
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be said, in the language of the Indictment, that the Reichsregierung "possessed * * * legislative * * * powers of a very high order in the system of the German government." The executive and administrative powers of the Reich were concentrated in the central government primarily as the result of two basic Nazi laws tha...
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things, the Reich Propaganda Offices and the film censorship offices. Furthermore, he exercises supervision over the Reich Chamber of Culture, the Recruiting Council of German Economics, the Reich Radio Company, and the Institute of Politics (Hochschule fuer Politik). "4. The Reich Minister of Aviation and Supreme Comm...
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People's Court on 24 April 1934, it was placed within the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice (2014-PS). With the acquisition and occupation of new territories, the integration and coordination thereof were placed within the Ministry of the Interior. The Reich Minister of the Interior, Frick, (in some cases in coop...
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"* * * The composition of the Ministerial Council for the defense of the Reich shows the real concentration of power in it. General Field Marshal Goering is the chairman and also the Supreme Director of the War Economy and Commissioner for the Four Year Plan. He is joined by the Plenipotentiary General for the Reich Ad...
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also honored with the gold party badge the party members State Secretary Dr. Lammers, State Secretary Funk, State Secretary Koerner and State Secretary General of the Airforce Milch." (2964-PS) It was possible to refuse the party membership thus conferred. Only one man, von Eliz-Rubenach, who was the Minister of Post a...
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These experts are entitled to make statements to the Reich Ministers on his behalf. "[signed] Adolph Hitler" (D-138). Hess himself made pertinent comment on his right of participation on behalf of the party, in a letter dated 9 October 1934, on the stationery of the NSDAP, addressed to the Reich Minister for Enlightenm...
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affected hereby. "[signed] Dr. LAMMERS" (D-140). After Hess' flight to England, Bormann, as Leader of the Party Chancellery, took over the same functions. He was given the authority of a Reich Minister and made a member of the cabinet. (2099-PS) The Nazi constitutional lawyer, Ernst Rudolf Huber, has this to say about ...
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Wehrmacht and compulsory military service (1935 Reichsgesetzblatt. Part I, pages 369, 375) (1654-PS); and the defense law of 21 May 1935 implementing the last-named law (1935 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, page 609). Point 4 of the Party platform read as follows: "Only those who are members of the 'Volk' can be citizens. O...
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page 293) (1396-PS); Law of 14 July 1933 against the new establishment of parties (1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, page 479); Law of 14 July 1933 providing for the confiscation of property of Social Democrats and others (1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, page 479) (1388-PS); and Law of 1 December 1933 securing the unity ...
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an act of treason (1934 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, page 341) (2014-PS); Law of 28 June 1935 changing the Penal Code permitting punishment under analogous law (1935 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, page 839) (1962-PS); Law of 16 September 1939 permitting second prosecution of an acquitted person before a special court, the me...
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22 May 1933 and signed by Keitel (EC-177); from a letter dated 24 June 1935 and signed by von Blomberg, the Reichs Minister of War, which transmits a copy of the secret, unpublished Reich Defense Law of 21 May 1935 and also a copy of the decision of the Reich Cabinet of 21 May 1935 in the Council for the Defense of the...
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Affairs Minister; Frick as Interior Minister, Goering as Air Minister; and Raeder as Chief of the Navy Command Staff. (EC-177) The presence of Cabinet ministers was indispensable. The cabinet by that time could legislate for the Reich. It had a definite role to play in this planning, as Keitel pointed out (EC-177): "Co...
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worked out security directives for the Reich Ministries and the Prussian Ministry of the Interior." (EC-177) As time went on and greater concentration of power was needed, the Cabinet made changes and additions to this secret war planning body. Article 6 of the Secret Defense Law of 1935 (2261-PS) provided: "(1) The Fu...
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of the Secret Cabinet Council; Frick as Plenipotentiary for the Reich Administration; Keitel as Chief of the OKW; Funk as Plenipotentiary for Economics; Ribbentrop as Minister of Foreign Affairs; Schacht as President of the Reichsbank directorate (2261-PS). An important part of the Reich Defense Council was the Working...
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"(3) The RVA is composed of the OKW, deputy of the commissioner for the four year plan, the leader staffs of the GBV and GBW, and the Reich Defense officials. "(4) Chief office officials for the Reich defense (RV-Referenten) and their deputies are commissioned by the deputy of the leader, by the Reich Chancellery, by e...
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OKW formed what was called a '3-Man College' (Dreierkollegium). We also were members of the Reich defense Council (Reichsverteidigungsrat), which was supposed to plan preparations and decrees in case of war which later on were published by the Ministerial Council for the Defense of the Reich. Since, as soon as the war ...
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the reestablishment of the Professional Civil Service, 7 April 1933. 1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 175 .................. III 981 1398-PS Law to supplement the Law for the restoration of the Professional Civil Service, 20 July 1933. 1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 518 ....... III 986 1400-PS Law changing the re...
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"Laender" with the Reich, 7 April 1933. 1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 173 ......................... IV 641 2006-PS Law for the reconstruction of the Reich, 30 January 1934. 1934 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 75 ......................... IV 642 2008-PS German Communal Ordinance, 30 January 1935. 1935 Reichsgesetzbl...
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......................... IV 719 2090-PS Decree relating to coordination of Jurisdiction of Reich and Prussia in relation to church affairs, 16 July 1935. 1935 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 1029 ......................... IV 720 2091-PS Decree of the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor appointing a Reich Minister for Armaments...
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2355-PS Second Law Relating to right to vote for Reichstag, 18 March 1938. 1938 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 258 ......................... IV 1098 *2380-PS Articles from National Socialist Yearbook, 1935. (USA 396) ......................... V 6 *2473-PS Extracts from National Socialist yearbook, 1943, showing party po...
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247) ......................... VII 462 **Chart No. 6 Reich Cabinet and subsidiaries. (Enlargement displayed to Tribunal.) ......................... VIII 775 *Chart No. 18 Organization of the Reich Government. (2905-PS; USA 3) ......................... End of VIII Chapter XV Part 2 Contents Chapter XV Part 4 Avalon Home...
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Avalon Home Document Collections Ancient 4000bce - 399 Medieval 400 - 1399 15 th Century 1400 - 1499 16 th Century 1500 - 1599 17 th Century 1600 - 1699 18 th Century 1700 - 1799 19 th Century 1800 - 1899 20 th Century 1900 - 1999 21 st Century 2000 - Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Volume 2 Chapter XV Part 4 Chapter XV...
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philosophies and activities which he was required to adopt in his daily life. Uniformity of action and thought in such matters was in part obtained by the publication and distribution of a weekly periodical entitled "Der SA-Mann." This publication was principally devoted to fostering various aspects of Nazi ideology. I...
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need more SA for the execution of political mission than is locally available, he then applies to the next higher office of sovereignty which, in turn, requests the SA from the SA office in his sector." (1893-PS) This close relationship is further shown by an ordinance for the execution of a Hitler decree (2383-PS): "T...
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killed in the Munich Putsch, 16 November, 1935, p. 3. Photograph of Goering marching in SA uniform, 19 September, 1936, p. 3. Photograph of Goering at ceremonies held upon occasion of his being made Obergruppenfuehrer of the Feldherrnhalle Regiment of the SA, 23 January, 1937, p. 3. Photograph of Goering leading Feldhe...
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Army, and the soldier of the Volk will return again into the Organization of the Movement, the Party, in the SA and SS and never again will our Volk decay as it once was decayed". (3050-A-E-PS) Thus the SA was constantly available to the conspirators as an instrument to further their aims. It was natural that Victor Lu...
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Book of the Nazi Party declares that the training of SA members should consist of- "The training and rearing upon the basis of the teachings and aims of the Fuehrer as they are put down in 'Mein Kampf' and in the Party program, for all spheres of our life and our National Socialist ideology." (2354-PS) The Party Organi...
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little Reichstag faction and its propaganda or from the desires and aims of the Party if the martial tread and battle song of the SA Companies had not beat the measure for the truth of a relentless criticism of the state of affairs in the governmental system. They wanted the young Movement to keep silent. Nothing was t...
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88 Receives its Baptism of Fire," 23 February, 1935: p. 5. Article entitled: "Street Battles at Pforghein," 23 February, 1935: p. 5. Article entitled: "The SA Breaks the Red Terror," 1 June, 1935: p. 7. Article entitled: "The Blood Sunday of Berlin," 10 August, 1935: p. 10. Article entitled: "West Prussian SA Breaks th...
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good. A large mass of people accompanied us on the march. We marched with unrolled flags and sang so that the streets resounded: Comrade reach me your hand; we want to stand together, even though they have false impressions, the spirit must not die, Swastika on the steel helmet, black-white-red armband, we are known as...
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was generally employed, says the SA man, "Where communism and elements hostile to the State still insolently dared to rebel." (2168-PS) SA groups were employed to destroy political opposition by force and brutality where necessary. As an example, an affidavit of William F. Sollman reads as follows: "* * * From 1919 unt...
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of combatting efforts inimical to the State Vogel carried out several so called borderland actions in the year 1933 in which a large number of politically unreliable persons and persons who had become political prisoners in the border territories were taken into protective custody (Schutzhaft) and brought to the Hohnst...
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the prisoner appeared green and blue in the face. The prisoner is the tinsmith Hans Kuehitz, who bore the nickname Johnny. Upon his departure Vogel gave the head of the supply room, Truppenfuehrer Meier from 6 to 8 Reichsmarks with the stated reason that the SA men 'had sweated so.' The money was then distributed by Me...
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6. Synagogue at Pfungstadt......................Interior and furnishings wrecked 7. Synagogue at Eberstadt.......................Destroyed by fire" "Standarte 145 1. Synagogue at Bensheim....................... Destroyed by fire 2. Synagogue at Lorch in Hessen.................Destroyed by fire 3. Synagogue at Heppenhei...
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German Volk and your Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler, and commit a sin against your German Volk and its future! Then, also, outside of the last German village, the sign will stand 'Jews are not wanted here!' and then, finally, no German citizen will again cross the threshold of a Jewish store. To achieve this goal is the mission...
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follows: "We suggest that the comrades especially take notice of this series of articles and see that they are further circulated." (3050-A-E-PS) In addition, intensive campaigns were conducted to persuade the public to purchase and read "Der SA-Mann," and various issues were posted in public places so that the general...
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25 April, 1936, p.10. Article entitled: "Our Right, Our Colonies," 10 October, 1936, p.15. Article entitled: "Our Right for Colonies," 18 December, 1937, p.7. Article entitled: "Space and Folk," 14 October, 1938, p.3. Article entitled: "Colonies for Germany," 2 January, 1937, p.4. This article reads in part as follows:...
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the fight stands: The liquidation of the Versailles Treaty. For this fight the SA marched year after Year * * *." A third group consists of articles describing preparations for war allegedly being carried on by other nations: Article entitled: "Military Training of the English Youth" (showing pictures of Eton students ...
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force (2820-PS). According to these regulations, "Discipline and obedience are the foundations as strong as steel for each military unit." These regulations further provide for punishment for disobedience. The punishments provided demonstrate the militaristic character of the SA. They include the following: Reprimand i...
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1934, to assist in the SA Training program (2823-PS). A memorandum from SA Headquarters dated 20 January, 1934 designates an officer of the Wehrmacht to assist in the military training of SA members and goes on to provide: "For the purpose of disguise, Lt. Col. Auleb will wear SA uniform with insignia of rank according...
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Firing of small-caliber arms, Aimed throwing of hand grenades, 200-meter cross-country race with gas masks over 4 obstacles, Swimming or bicycle riding, Basic knowledge of first aid in case of accidents. "Group III: Terrain service; Orientation, Terrain observation, Estimate of terrain, Estimate of distance, Camouflage...
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of the German people may be seen from the following excerpt from "Das Archiv" (3215-PS): "Next to the companies of the SA were the sport badge associations (SAG) in which all the militaristic nationals entered who were prepared to voluntarily answer the call of the SA for the preservation of military proficiency. Up un...
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War," 4 August, 1934, p.13. Article entitled: "The Rifle 98," 8 September, 1934, p.7. Article entitled: "The Combat Battalion" (with description of tactical missions and maneuvers of the battalion), 15 September, 1934, p.7. Article entitled: "Air Strategy and Air Tactics," 29 September, 1934, p.7. Article entitled: "Ga...
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military formation), 24 August, 1935, p.2. Article entitled: "SA Men at the heavy machine gun," 3 July, 1936, p.14. Photograph of SA men in uniform and full pack on obstacle run, 29 August, 1936, p.7. Article entitled: "Fight, Fight, Fight" with subtitles: "Preparation of Francken Division for the NS War Games" (with p...
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