Chapter XXIII: Section 3: of Chapter XV for further material on the Reich Cabinet.) (6)

The delegate of the Fuehrer was _Reichsleiter_ Alfred Rosenberg. The Office of the BdF was placed in charge of the Party’s intellectual and ideological training and education. Its declared objective was the uniform ideological orientation of the Party, Party formations, and affiliated associations. Its main functions, in furtherance of this objective, were the preparation of suitable training materials and the issuance of directives thereon; the preparation, editing, and establishment of curricula; the training of qualified teaching staffs; the counseling of Party agencies, formations, and affiliates on content and methods of indoctrination; and the elimination of such reading and teaching materials as were deemed inappropriate from a National Socialist point of view. To perform these tasks, Rosenberg had the assistance of a large organization with numerous functional divisions (_2319-PS_). The BdF took a major part in the work of Party organizations, affiliated associations, and schools and training institutes which were instrumental in the indoctrination of the German people and youth. (_2383-PS_)

B. _The Reich government organization._

The state organ of control was the _Reichsministerium fuer Volksaufklaerung und Propaganda_ (Reich Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda). The Minister was Josef Goebbels. The Ministry was founded by decree dated 13 March 1933, which defined its duties as the “enlightenment of, and propaganda among, the people on the subject of the policy of the Reich government and on the national reconstruction of the homeland.” (_2029-PS_). By decree dated 30 June 1933 the functions of the Minister were extended to include “jurisdiction over the whole field of spiritual indoctrination of the nation, of propagandizing the State, of cultural and economic propaganda, of enlightenment of the public at home and abroad; furthermore he is in charge of all institutions serving these purposes.” (_2030-PS_). In the words of Mueller, an authority on the Propaganda Ministry, these decrees formed the basis for the creation of a central agency for propaganda “the like of which heretofore existed nowhere in the world.” (_2434-PS_). The influence which this agency exerted on the everyday life and activities of the German citizen was illustrated by the multitude of civic and cultural affairs, including public entertainment, which fell under the sweep of its direction and control. (_2434-PS_)

A few of the more important departments of the Propaganda Ministry, together with a brief description of their respective functions, follows:

(1) _Personnel._ This department issued directives for unified personnel policy, and exercised general supervision over the personnel of public art instituted within the entire Reich.

(2) _Law._ “The nuclear task of the law department is the publication and execution of national socialist cultural laws. The professions and institutions of literature and art had to be transformed from carriers of a liberal individualistic intellectual movement to the carriers of the tasks of public propaganda and leadership. To reach this goal required the enactment of governmental decrees for creating new organizations or the making of new laws.”

(3) _Propaganda._ This department coordinated propaganda policies and issued over-all directives to the various functional departments (press, radio, etc.) which then carried out the directives. A special function was “enlightenment of the people as to Jewish question” and as to “racial policies.”

(4) _Foreign._ This department was the Ministry’s listening post for political and economic developments abroad “to counteract the worldwide publicity activities of the enemy against our philosophy and our political objectives by exposing and rectifying the lies of the press” and to exploit the information in German propaganda. It also cooperated closely with the _Auslandsorganization der NSDAP_.

(5) _Radio._ Hans Fritzsche headed this department. It supervised the political content of German broadcasting, issued directives as to the arrangement of programs and treatment of material, and cooperated with the Party in the technical organization of German radio.

(6) The _Film Department_ was in charge of directing and guiding the German film industry, censoring of films, and developing the German weekly newsreel.

(7) _Literature._ This agency, in close collaboration with BdF and PPK, controlled all German literary activities, censored new books, provided for the publication of German books abroad, and arranged for the translation and censorship of foreign books.

(8) _Abteilung Deutsche Presse_ (German or Home Press Department). This department was headed by Fritzsche until he was relieved in 1942 to take charge of the Radio Division. It was responsible for political control over the entire German press; it controlled the editorial policy of the press and its personnel (through the Reich Press Chamber), and supervised the dissemination of news through the official German News Agency (DNB). The Home Press Division outlined the editorial policy of all newspapers and the comment of editors and journalists in its daily directives. (_Tendenz berichte_). These dealt with the daily contents of the paper, the methods of treatment of news material, the writing of headlines, the preference for or omission of certain items, and the modification or cessation of current campaigns. The directives were issued to the representatives of the press in person or sent through the facilities of the DNB to the local papers. (_2434-PS_; _2529-PS_)

The Home Press Department of the Propaganda Ministry had an important participation in administering the provisions of the Editorial Control Law, which made the profession of editor “a public task, which is regulated as to its professional duties and rights by the state.” That law also included requirements for admission to the profession and other elaborate controls. (_2083-PS_)

(9) _Periodical Literature._ This department supervised German periodical literature in the same manner as the _Abteilung Deutsche Presse_ controlled the daily press.

Other divisions exercised supervision over the Theatre (selection and supervision of the entire dramatic production and influencing the programs of all German Theatres); the Arts; Music (“the entire cultural and political leadership of German musical life”); Special Cultural Tasks (“This department serves mainly to eliminate all Jews from German Cultural life”); and Foreign Tourists. (_2434-PS_)

A large organization of faithful Party followers was recruited to discharge the manifold functions of the Propaganda Ministry. The staff numbered 1000 persons in 1939-1940. In the words of Mueller:

“It is no accident; therefore, that the great majority of the
official workers and other personnel of the Ministry consist of
reliable National Socialists of which almost 100 are bearers of
the Gold Party Pin.” (_2434-PS_)

C. _The semi-autonomous professional organizations Reichskulturkammer_ (Reich Chamber of Culture).

The Reich Chamber of Culture was set up in September 1933 to control (under the supervision of the Propaganda Ministry and within the framework of general policy directives issued by that activity) personnel engaged in all fields of propaganda (_2082-PS_). Its tasks as described in the First Executive Decree of the above law, dated 1 November 1933, were:

“To promote German culture as responsible to the people and the
Reich, to regulate the social and economic relations of the
different groups in the cultural professions and to coordinate
their aims.” (_2415-PS_)

The _Reichskulturkammer_ was a so-called “_Nachgeordnete Dienststelle_” (Subordinate office) of the Propaganda Ministry. Together with its subordinate Chambers it was charged with supervising all personnel active in any field under the jurisdiction of the Propaganda Ministry. All persons employed in the cultural professions were obligated to register with one of the subordinate Chambers. The Chambers were also responsible for investigating the activities and political reliability of their members. Moreover, power was given to Chambers to prosecute members offending against Nazi standards or persons pursuing their occupation without being duly registered. The punitive powers included, expulsion from membership, which was tantamount to the loss of livelihood. The Chambers were also given power to issue directives, which had the validity of law, regulating the cultural activities under their control (_2529-PS_). The President of the Chamber of Culture was the Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, who nominated the Vice-Presidents. In 1937, the latter consisted of Walter Funk, Max Amann (Reich Leader of the Press) and Leopold Gutterer (Secretary of State in the Propaganda Ministry).

The Chamber of Culture was divided into seven functional chambers:

(1) _Reichspressekammer_ (Reich Press Chamber). Max Amann was president of this chamber, which was, to a greater extent than the other chambers, a loose association of technical bodies and organizations, such as the Reich Association of German Newspaper Publishers. It integrated the activities of these groups and, through the composition of its governing body, ensured close coordination with Party and State propaganda machinery. (_2529-PS_; _3016-PS_)

(2) _Reichskammer der bildenden Kunste_ (Reich Chamber of Fine Arts). This chamber supervised the activities of all architects, interior decorators, landscape gardeners, sculptors, painters, draftsmen, art publishers, etc. By 1937, all other art groups and associations had been dissolved, and all their members “obligated by profession” to join this chamber. (_2529-PS_)

(3) _Reichsmusikkammer_ (Reich Music Chamber). This Chamber was organized to “oversee the practice and activity of musicians in their cultural, economic, and legal relationships with the world. * * * in order that music will still remain a prized possession of the German people.” (_2529-PS_)

(4) _Reichstheaterkammer_ (Reich Theater Chamber). The Theater Chamber was the professional organization for the entire field of the professional theater. Its purpose was to supervise and promote the “cultural, social and economic conditions of the professions which it includes”. Actual censorship of stage production was the responsibility of the _Reichsdramaturg_. (_2529-PS_)

(5) _Reichsfilmkammer_ (Reich Film Chamber). The primary function of this Chamber was to lift the film industry “out of the sphere of liberal economic thoughts” by giving it a sound economic foundation and thus enable it to “receive those tasks which it has to fulfill in the National Socialist State”. (_2529-PS_)

(6) _Reichsschrifttumskammer_ (Reich Chamber of Literature). The Chamber of Literature had jurisdiction over all persons concerned with the “basic production” (writing and publishing) of literature. Its task was to protect writers “from undesirable elements” and to keep out of the book market everything “unGerman.” It had the further function of bringing literature to the people and making the writer more “aware of his duty to the nation.” Primary responsibility for critical evaluation and censorship of literature however, was left to the Propaganda Ministry. (_2529-PS_)

(7) _Reichsrundfunkkammer_ (Reich Radio Chamber). The official gazette of the Reich Culture Chamber stated that the radio was the most immediate propaganda instrument of the National Socialist leadership; that the ideal and cultural life of the nation could be shown “totally” in and through the radio; and that since the radio constituted the most important technical means of influencing the masses it was necessary to establish a close tie between the radio and the Party.

Functions of the Radio Chamber included: mobilizing of all technical possibilities of broadcasting, bringing the people closer to radio, planning the manufacture of cheap receiving sets, and propaganda in connection with the drive for new listeners. (_2529-PS_)

* * * * *

LEGAL REFERENCES AND LIST OF DOCUMENTS RELATING TO PROPAGANDA,
CENSORSHIP, AND SUPERVISION OF CULTURAL ACTIVITIES

Document │ Description │ Vol. │ Page
│ │ │
│Charter of the International Military │ │
│ Tribunal, Article 6, especially 6 (a).│ I │ 5
│ │ │
│International Military Tribunal, │ │
│ Indictment Number 1, Section IV (D) 3 │ │
│ (e). │ I │ 21
│ ————— │ │
│Note: A single asterisk (*) before a │ │
│document indicates that the document was│ │
│received in evidence at the Nurnberg │ │
│trial. A double asterisk (**) before a │ │
│document number indicates that the │ │
│document was referred to during the │ │
│trial but was not formally received in │ │
│evidence, for the reason given in │ │
│parentheses following the description of│ │
│the document. The USA series number, │ │
│given in parentheses following the │ │
│description of the document, is the │ │
│official exhibit number assigned by the │ │
│court. │ │
│ ————— │ │
*1708-PS │The Program of the NSDAP. National │ │
│Socialistic Yearbook, 1941, p. 153. (USA│ │
│255; USA 324) │ IV │ 208
│ │ │
2029-PS │Decree establishing the Reich Ministry │ │
│of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, │ │
│13 March 1933. 1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, │ │
│Part I, p. 104. │ IV │ 652
│ │ │
2030-PS │Decree concerning the Duties of the │ │
│Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment │ │
│and Propaganda, 30 June 1933. 1933 │ │
│Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 449. │ IV │ 653
│ │ │
2082-PS │Law relating to the Reich Chamber of │ │
│Culture of 22 September 1933. 1933 │ │
│Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 661. │ IV │ 708
│ │ │
2083-PS │Editorial control law, 4 October 1933. │ │
│1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 713. │ IV │ 709
│ │ │
2315-PS │Order concerning the Supervision of │ │
│District Leaders of Work of Reich │ │
│Chamber of Culture, published in The Law│ │
│of the Reich Chamber of Culture, Vol. 2,│ │
│1 January to 30 June 1935. │ IV │ 1007
│ │ │
*2319-PS │Extracts from Organization Book of │ │
│NSDAP, 4th edition, 1937. (USA 602) │ IV │ 1009
│ │ │
*2383-PS │Ordinance for execution of decree of │ │
│Fuehrer concerning position of the Head │ │
│of Party Chancellery of 16 January 1942,│ │
│published in Decrees, Regulations, │ │
│Announcements. (USA 410) │ V │ 9
│ │ │
2415-PS │First decree for the implementation of │ │
│law relating to The Reich Chamber of │ │
│Culture, 1 November 1933. 1933 │ │
│Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I. │ V │ 89
│ │ │
*2434-PS │The Reich Ministry for Enlightenment of │ │
│the People and for Propaganda, Berlin │ │
│1940, by Georg Mueller. (USA 722) │ V │ 102
│ │ │
2529-PS │Extracts from Handbook of Reich Chamber │ │
│of Culture for 1937. │ V │ 262
│ │ │
*3016-PS │Affidavit of Max Amann, 19 November │ │
│1945. (USA 757) │ V │ 735
│ │ │
*3469-PS │Affidavit of Hans Fritzsche, 7 January │ │
│1946. (USA 721) │ VI │ 174
│ │ │
*Chart No. 2 │Totalitarian Control of Propaganda and │ │
│Education. (USA 21) │ VIII │ 771

10. MILITARIZATION OF NAZI ORGANIZATIONS.

A. _The Nazi conspirators placed many of their organizations on a progressively militarized footing with a view to the rapid transformation and use of such organizations as instruments of war._

(1) _The Schutzstaffeln (SS)._ The SS was militarized beginning in March 1933, when special, volunteer, armed units were created consisting of full-time garrisoned troops. These units, which rapidly grew in strength, were a part neither of the Wehrmacht, nor of the police, but were exclusively at the disposal of the Fuehrer. This militarization of the SS was in accordance with Nazi policy. (For documentation and further discussion see Chapter XV, Section 5.)

(2) _The Sturmabteilung (SA)._ The SA was founded in 1921 as a para-military organization to fight political enemies of the Nazis. After the accession of the Nazis to power, the SA was used to provide pre-military training at a time when the Reichswehr was legally limited to a strength of 100,000 men. Thus the SA, from its inception, had a military purpose, which was carried out and gradually increased in scope. (For documentation and further discussion see Chapter XV, Section 4.)

(3) _The Hitler Jugend (HJ)._ One of the chief purposes of the Hitler Jugend was to provide for military training of German youth at a very early age. As early as 1933, the HJ entered into a secret program of extensive pre-military training for German youth in conjunction with the SA and the Wehrmacht. In addition to general military training, members of the HJ were given specialized training in various types of military units, such as flying units, naval units, motorized units, signal units, etc. (For documentation and further discussion, see Section 8, _supra_.)

(4) _The National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK)._ The original NSKK was founded under the name of NSAK (National Socialist Automobile Corps) on 1 April 1930 by Hitler, who joined as its first member. By the end of 1931 it had a membership of approximately 10,000, as compared to 300 at the beginning of that year (_2804-PS_). In 1934 the motorized Hitler Jugend and the motorized SA were placed under the NSKK. Hitler, on 23 August of that year, decreed that:

“the NSAK and the motorized SA are from now on welded together
into a unit called NSKK. The NSKK is directly subordinate to
me”. (_2804-PS_)

Thus the NSKK was elevated to the position of an independent affiliated unit of the NSDAP, similar to the SA and the SS. The membership of the enlarged NSKK grew rapidly.

The military purpose of the NSKK is evident from the following statement from The _Organizationbuch der NSDAP_ (1940):

“The young driver who has received his training in the six-week
courses of the NSKK will be well prepared in body and spirit
when the time comes for his military service, and will wear with
pride the dress of the Armed Forces of the Nation.”
(_2320-B-PS_)

The program of militarization proceeded rapidly:

“More than one-third of all leaders and men of the NSKK, which
had in the meantime grown to a membership of 350,000, were
already active in the fight for power * * * Thus, the NSKK had
in its ranks, in addition to the proud tradition of the period
of our fight, also that of the World War. This front spirit and
experience of a generation matured to manhood in the barrages,
in the battles of attrition, in the battles of the Freikorps,
and in the heroic fight of National Socialism for Germany’s
rebirth, is passed on to our youth as a sacred heritage.”
(_2804-PS_)

The training given to NSKK members was intended to furnish seasoned recruits for the Nazi military forces.

“Military motorized training of our youth is the cardinal task
of the educational work of the NSKK. Here it collaborates most
closely with the bearer of the arms of the Reich, the Wehrmacht,
and it has done so already throughout the years before the
seizure of power. The demands and needs of the Army, which
continuously grew in scope after the awakening of our Nation and
after our regained military freedom also caused the tasks and
the work of the NSKK in the field of military motorized training
to grow correspondingly * * * By order of the Fuehrer and
Supreme Commander of the Wehrmacht, the NSKK has been given
charge of the pre-military training of the entire young reserve
of the motorized troop units of our Army in addition to
post-military training.” (_2804-PS_)

NSKK-trained men were intended to be assimilated into Reich Panzer units.

“Well prepared physically and spiritually, the young German man
who has now become a motorized soldier, can serve with a
motorized or partially-motorized unit of the Army. To become a
tank soldier is his only ambition.” (_2804-PS_)

The NSKK was actually used for military purposes.

“The men of the NSKK have considerably contributed to the
liberation of the Sudetenland by the Fuehrer and have thus
gained undying merit, not only for the Germans in the
Sudetenland, but for the entire German people as a whole.”
(_2804-PS_)

Further evidence of actual military use of the NSKK is given in the following passage from “_Deutschland im Kampf_” written by _Ministerialdirigent_ A. J. Berndt of the Reich Propaganda Ministry and Lt. Col. von Wedel of the German Army High Command, in the issue of June 1940:

“The NSKK is playing a decisive part in the carrying out of
considerable war-important tasks on the Inner Front, one of
which is traffic. * * * Among the tasks of the NSKK are
pre-military training, education, and schooling and motorized
transport. Thus, for instance, the conducting of the entire
transport system of the TODT Organization on the West Wall and
the traffic in the Western War Theater are in the hands of the
NSKK.” (_2810-PS_)

(5) _The National Socialist Aviation Corps (NSFK)._ The NSFK was another organization affiliated with the NSDAP used by the Nazi conspirators for military purposes. It was the great training school for the Luftwaffe.

“In the endeavor to assure for the German Luftwaffe a
numerically strong and well prepared reserve, and to strengthen
in the German people the conviction that Germany must retain its
head-start in all spheres of aviation, the NSFK was founded by
the Fuehrer on 17 April 1937 * * *.

“The NSFK at the time of its creation, was given the following
tasks by the Reichsmarshal:

“1. Pre-military aviation training of the new blood for the
Luftwaffe.

“2. The keeping in training of the reservists of the aviation
troops.

“3. The combining and directing of all German air sports.

“4. Promotion and extension of the aviation idea among the
German people.

“These tasks are so great that the cooperation of tens of
thousands of active members is necessary to make carrying them
out possible, so that the Luftwaffe may be able at any time to
count on their fulfillment according to plan.” (_2811-PS_)

The paramount military purpose of the NSFK is clearly indicated in the following admission by _Generalleutnant_ Friedrich Christiansen, _Korpsfuehrer_ of the NSFK:

“Schooled in character, trained physically as a flier, and as a
soldier, the member-to-be of the Luftwaffe leaves the NSFK.”
(_2813-PS_)

(6) _The Reichsarbeitdienst (RAD)_ (The Reich Labor Service). The Reich Labor Service was also subverted to military purposes by the Nazi conspirators.

Membership in the RAD was made compulsory for both young men and women on 26 June 1935.

“All young Germans of either sex between 18-25 years of age are
obligated to serve their people in the Reich Labor Service. As
the schooling of the Nation, it has as its object this education
of the German Youth to National Socialist Ideology.

“The Reich Labor Service for men is, thanks to its military
nature, closely-knit units, and its particular education and
training an ever-ready, powerful tool of the National Socialist
Reich.” (_2805-PS_)

The tens of thousands of members of the RAD were militarily trained and ready for action when Germany launched her campaigns of aggression. Actual military use of the men of the RAD is clearly shown in the 1 June 1943 edition of “_Fuehren und Erziehen_” (Leadership and Education), the official magazine of the Reich Labor Service. A photograph depicts a Labor Service man repairing a bridge at the front, across which four infantrymen are proceeding, and is titled as follows:

“The young crews who have gone through the educational
institutions of the Reich Labor Service today represent the most
active nucleus of our Army. * * * Our photograph shows labor men
who in the East are preparing the way for infantry shock troops
by repairing a bridge. Thus also the men of the Reich Labor
Service are today one of the examples of eternal German
soldierdom.” (_2806-PS_)

The military uses of the RAD are further described in the following letter written by Goering to Reich Labor Service Leader Konstantin Hierl:

“After the victorious termination of the campaign in Poland, I
cannot but convey to you my sincere thanks for and unreserved
recognition of the help rendered by the Reich Labor Service in
the carrying out of the operations of the Luftwaffe. In guarding
Army airfields, in clearing and quickly repairing former enemy
airports, in road construction and in bringing up supplies,
everywhere your men have done a real job and have thus
contributed considerably to the successes of the German
Luftwaffe.” (_2807-PS_)

(7) _The TODT Organization (OT)._ The TODT Organization, or OT, was another NSDAP affiliate used to further the militaristic aims of the Nazi conspirators. The OT, originally an offshoot of the RAD, was created as a separate entity in June 1938 when Dr. Fritz Todt was charged with the construction of the Siegfried Line or West Wall. The military employment of the OT is clearly shown in the following passage from “_Maenner der OT_”, which was published by the Photographic Office of the Reich Propaganda Office:

“No sooner had the greatest and most modern fortifications of
the world, the West Wall, been completed by the workers of the
OT, when these very same workers were called upon by the Fuehrer
to prove their worth also in direct front service * * * and they
thus helped * * * to achieve the greatest victory in history.
When the great offensive in the west began, the brown workers’
columns of the TODT organization followed immediately behind
them. After the armistice with France had been signed, an
entirely new situation developed for the TODT organization. Its
columns had pushed deep into enemy country. Not seldom did they
have direct contact with the enemy—their losses in dead and
wounded and the Iron Cross awards are heroic proof of that.
While, as the foremost construction workers of the German Reich,
they had already proved their worth when building the West Wall,
they were now able to perfect what they had learned in the fight
against the British world enemy. From the Channel coast to the
Atlantic Ocean, the front technicians and front workers of the
OT now proceeded to create the prerequisites for a successful
fight against England.” (_2808-PS_)

Though the OT was in its origin technically a civilian organization, it subsequently became a para-military body which, before and during the war, cooperated fully with the German Army. On 2 July 1940, a directive was issued from the German High Command appointing a liaison officer.

“* * * to establish the closest liaison and cooperation of the
respective military offices with the main construction work of
the TODT Organization.” (_2812-PS_)

This militarization of the OT is further shown in the following passage from “_Nationalsozialistische Monatschefte_” for 1942:

“From the Autobahn workers was developed the ‘Organization TODT’
a body of hundreds of thousands of workers who help the
Wehrmacht everywhere in eliminating obstacles, building bridges
and erecting fortifications and shelters. The front soldier and
the front worker stand side by side. Together they have shed
their blood in this war and together they have won victories.
Long-range guns on the Channel coast, U-boat bases on the
Atlantic, and now the East will render the ‘OT’ immortal for all
times to come.” (_2809-PS_)

A letter from Fritz Sauckel to Hitler, dated 17 May 1943, states that the OT had supplied 248,200 workers by March 1943 for the completion of the Atlantic Wall, and praises the OT for its excellent work in this regard. (_407-VIII-PS_)

By 1938, all phases of German life _had been_ mobilized for the accomplishment of militant aims.

Hitler declared to the Reichstag on 20 February 1938:

“Only now we have succeeded in setting before us the great tasks
and in possessing the material things which are the
prerequisites for the realization of great creative plans in all
fields of our national existence. Thus, National Socialism has
made up within a few years for what centuries before it had
omitted. * * *

“National Socialism has given the German people that leadership
which as party not only mobilizes the nation but also organizes
it, so that on the basis of the natural principle of selection,
the continuance of a stable political leadership is safeguarded
forever * * * National Socialism * * * possesses Germany
entirely and completely since the day when, five years ago, I
left the house in Wilhelmplatz as Reich Chancellor. There is no
institution in this state which is not National Socialist. Above
all, however, the National Socialist Party in these five years
not only has made the nation National Socialist, but also has
given itself that perfect organizational structure which
guarantees its permanence for all future. _The greatest
guarantee of the National Socialist revolution lies in the
complete domination of the Reich and all its institutions and
organizations, internally and externally, by the National
Socialist Party. Its protection against the world abroad,
however, lies in its new National Socialist armed forces._ * * *

“In this Reich, anybody who has a responsible position is a
National Socialist. * * * Every institution of this Reich is
under the orders of the supreme political leadership. * * * The
party leads the Reich politically, the armed forces defend it
militarily. * * * There is nobody in any responsible position in
this state who doubts that I am the authorized leader of this
Reich.” (_2715-PS_)

* * * * *

LEGAL REFERENCES AND LIST OF DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MILITARIZATION OF
NAZI ORGANIZATIONS

Document │ Description │ Vol. │ Page
│ │ │
│Charter of the International Military │ │
│ Tribunal, Article 6, especially 6 (a).│ I │ 5
│ │ │
│International Military Tribunal, │ │
│ Indictment Number 1, Section IV (D) 3 │ │
│ (f). │ I │ 21
│ ————— │ │
│Note: A single asterisk (*) before a │ │
│document indicates that the document was│ │
│received in evidence at the Nurnberg │ │
│trial. A double asterisk (**) before a │ │
│document number indicates that the │ │
│document was referred to during the │ │
│trial but was not formally received in │ │
│evidence, for the reason given in │ │
│parentheses following the description of│ │
│the document. The USA series number, │ │
│given in parentheses following the │ │
│description of the document, is the │ │
│official exhibit number assigned by the │ │
│court. │ │
│ ————— │ │
*407-VIII-PS │Telegram from Sauckel to Hitler, 17 May │ │
│1943, concerning foreign labor. (USA │ │
│210) │ III │ 394
│ │ │
2320-B-PS │Extracts from Organization Book of │ │
│NSDAP, 1940, p. 394. │ IV │ 1026
│ │ │
*2715-PS │Speech by Hitler to the Reichstag on 20 │ │
│February 1938, published in The Archive,│ │
│February 1938, Vol. 47, pp. 1441-1442. │ │
│(USA 331). │ V │ 376
│ │ │
2804-PS │Extracts from “Das NSKK” by Hans Helmut │ │
│Krenzlein, NSKK Gruppenfuehrer, with │ │
│foreword by Leader of NSKK, Korpsfuehrer│ │
│A. Huehnlein. │ V │ 446
│ │ │
2805-PS │Extract from Organization Book of NSDAP,│ │
│1943, p. 465. │ V │ 447
│ │ │
2806-PS │Extract from Leadership and Education, │ │
│official magazine of Dutch Labor │ │
│Service, 1 June 1943, p. 19. │ V │ 448
│ │ │
2807-PS │Letter by Goering to Reich Labor Service│ │
│Leader Konstantin Hierl, published by │ │
│National Socialist Monthly, 1940, Vol. │ │
│I, p. 155. │ V │ 448
│ │ │
2808-PS │Men of the OT, published by Photographic│ │
│Office of Reich Propaganda Office. │ V │ 448
│ │ │
2809-PS │Extract from National Socialist Monthly,│ │
│February-March, 1942, p. 167. │ V │ 449
│ │ │
2810-PS │Extract from Germany in Battle, by │ │
│Berndt of Reich Propaganda Ministry and │ │
│von Wedel of German Army High Command, │ │
│1940, p. 107. │ V │ 449
│ │ │
2811-PS │Extracts from Organization Book of the │ │
│NSDAP, 1938, pp. 470, 470(c). │ V │ 450
│ │ │
2812-PS │Directive from German Army High Command,│ │
│published in General Army Bulletin, │ │
│1940, Vol. VII, p. 96. │ V │ 450
│ │ │
2813-PS │Extract from The National Socialist Air │ │
│Corps, p. 14. │ V │ 451
│ │ │
*3054-PS │“The Nazi Plan”, script of a motion │ │
│picture composed of captured German │ │
│film. (USA 167) │ V │ 801