Chapter XII: on Persecution of the Jews.) (8)

“Now the problem was to apply the victory of the movement to the
entire youth. Our cabinet ministers were overburdened with their
new tasks and were working day and night. We could not wait
until they could find time to solve the youth question by their
own initiative. Therefore, we had to act ourselves. My
co-workers met in my Munich apartment and advised me to occupy
the Reichs Committee [_Reichsausschuss_] of the German Youth
Leagues [_Jugendverbaende_]. I commissioned General
[_Obergebietsfuehrer_] Nabersberg with 50 members of the Berlin
HJ to make a surprise raid on the Reich Committee in the
Alsenstrasse early the next morning. This was done and at noon
the press had the report that the HJ [Hitler Youth] had taken
over the leadership of the Reich Committee.” (_1458-PS_).

By a second surprise raid, Schirach took over the Youth Hostels. Of this Schirach writes in the same book:

“In the meantime I gained control over the Reich League for
German Youth Hostels [_Reichsverband fuer deutsche
Jugendherbergen_] in a similar manner to the one employed with
the Reich Committee.” (_1458-PS_)

By using the records of the seized Reich Committee, Schirach states that he obtained knowledge of the strength and influential personalities of all the German youth groups.

“From this point I recognized the necessity of coming to grips
with the Greater German Union [_Grossdeutscher Bund_].”
(_1458-PS_)

In June 1933, Schirach was appointed Youth Leader of the German Reich (_Jugendfuehrer des Deutschen Reiches_) in a solemn ceremony before Hitler. Concerning the period immediately following, Schirach writes in the same book:

“The first thing I did was to dissolve the Greater German Union
[_Grossdeutscher Bund_]. Since I headed all German youth
organizations and I had the right to decide on their leadership,
I did not hesitate for a moment to take this step, which was for
the Hitler Youth the elimination of an unbearable state of
affairs.” (_1458-PS_)

The dissolution of this and other youth organizations was accomplished by orders issued by Schirach as Youth Leader of the German Reich. (_2229-PS_)

In this position Schirach also appointed deputies to the various German states (_Landesbeauftragte_) “to carry out my instructions, and I appointed district leaders [_Gebietsfuehrer_] to these positions in all of the states in execution of my right” (_1458-PS_). In this book Schirach also admits directing the further assimilation or destruction of other youth organizations:

“The Marxist youth as well as all political youth organizations
I prohibited after the occupation of the Reich Committee. The
one million members of the HJ which we had on 30 January 1933
had grown to a round 3,000,000. Only the two large professional
groups, the Protestant and Catholic youth, were opposed to us.”
(_1458-PS_)

Schirach proceeded to hold discussions with the Hitler-appointed Reich Bishop Ludwig Mueller,

“And in December 1933, the Reich Bishop and myself were able to
inform the Fuehrer that incorporation of the Protestant youth
into the HJ had become a reality.” (_1458-PS_)

When this book was written, Schirach had not yet accomplished the complete coordination of Catholic youth into the Hitler Youth, though he argued that:

“No reasonable man in Germany can give a reason for the
necessity of the existence of Catholic youth organizations in
their present form.” (_1458-PS_)

Schirach’s objective of forcing all German youth into the Hitler Youth was finally accomplished by a decree in December 1936. (_1392-PS_)

(3) _Schirach was mainly responsible for the indoctrination and training of German youth outside home and school._ The law making compulsory the organization of all German Youth within the Hitler Youth declared that:

“The task of educating the German Youth through the Hitler Youth
is being entrusted to the Reich Youth Leader in the NSDAP.”
(_1392-PS_)

To make Schirach’s sole competence even clearer, the first executive order concerning the basic youth law stated:

“The youth leader of the German Reich is solely competent for
all missions of the physical, ideological, and moral education
of the entire German youth outside of the house of the parents
and the school.” (_1462-PS_)

(4) _Schirach was the principal Nazi conspirator in applying the Leadership principle to German youth._ As a Reich Leader (_Reichsleiter_) in the NSDAP, Schirach was responsible only to Hitler or his deputy (_Stellvertreter_), Hess. In youth affairs he was at the top of the Nazi leadership pyramid, and under him German youth was directed by and completely subjected to the Leadership Principle. The Leadership Principle, one of the principal control-techniques of the Nazis was explained and glorified by Schirach as it applied to German youth:

“A single will leads the HJ. The power of authority of the HJ
leaders, that of the smallest as well as of the largest unit, is
absolute, i.e., he has the unlimited right to give orders
because he bears the unlimited responsibility. He knows that the
responsibility of the higher one comes before that of the lower
ones. Therefore, he submits silently to the instructions of his
leaders even if they are directed against him personally. To him
as well as to all young Germany the history of the HJ is proof
of the fact that a youth community also can only be successful
if it unconditionally recognizes the authority of leadership.
The success of National Socialism is a success of discipline.
The structure of National Socialist Youth is built on the
foundation of discipline and obedience. The teachings of the
time of persecution apply even more to the period of victory and
power.” (_1458-PS_)

(5) _Schirach indoctrinated youth with the Nazi ideology._ Schirach states that:

“It was my task to educate the youth in the aims, ideology and
directives of the NSDAP, and beyond this to direct and to shape
them.” (_3302-PS_)

For this purpose the Hitler Youth had an elaborate propaganda apparatus which published numerous periodicals, ranging from a daily press service to monthly magazines. Through liaison agents the Hitler Youth Propaganda Office had permanent contact with Dr. Goebbels’ Propaganda Office of the NSDAP and with the Ministry of People’s Enlightenment and Propaganda. (_3349-PS_).

Schirach, together with Dr. Robert Ley, established the Adolf Hitler Schools in January 1937. These schools, according to the joint statement of Reich Leaders (_Reichsleiter_) Schirach and Ley, were open to outstanding and proven members of the Youth Folk (_Jungvolk_), the junior section of the Hitler Youth organization. The Adolf Hitler Schools were destined to train youth free of charge for responsible positions in National Socialist Germany. These schools were units of and under the jurisdiction of the Hitler Youth. Schirach shared with Reich Organization Leader (_Reichsorganisationsleiter_) Ley the general supervision of the contents of the teaching, the curriculum, and the staff of the Adolf Hitler Schools (_2653-PS_). Schirach encouraged a close relation between members of the Hitler Youth and the German League for Germandom abroad _(Verein fuer das Deutschtum im Ausland_, or “VDA”). An agreement between Schirach and the leaders of the VDA in 1933 states:

“(1) With a complete respect for the important racial-political
task the Hitler Youth recommends to its members membership in
collaboration with the VDA.”

* * * * * *

“(3) The school groups of the VDA (racial-German work cells)
assist the Hitler Youth in their work.” (_L-360-H_)

Schirach thus subscribed to the “racial-political task” of the NSDAP and extended his jurisdiction even beyond the border of the German Reich. His encouragement and approval of anti-Jewish terror by youth is discussed below.

(6) _Through the Hitler Youth, Schirach assisted the Nazi conspirators in developing leaders and members of the NSDAP and its affiliated organizations, including the SA and the SS._ Sometime before the launching of aggressive wars, the Hitler Youth had become the principal source of zealous members for the NSDAP and its affiliated organizations. Orders of the Party Chancellery concerned with “successor problems” of the Party emphasize constant attention to Hitler Youth members as future Nazi leaders, thus attempting the perpetuation of the Nazi regime and Nazi ideology for the immediate future and even into future generations. Only Hitler Youth members who distinguished themselves were to be admitted to the Party. Nazi leaders were instructed to use “properly qualified full-time Hitler Youth leaders * * * for the continuation of their political work in the Party service,” so that a necessary succession of full-time leaders in the Leader Corps (_Fuehrerkorps_) of the Party would be secured. (_3348-PS_)

The Party manual also discusses the Hitler Youth as a recruitment agency for future Nazi leaders and members of affiliated organizations of the NSDAP:

“To secure for the Party valuable and trained recruits for
leadership, suitable Hitler Jugend boys of over 17 can be
assigned for education and training to leaders from local unit
leaders on upwards.”

* * * * * *

“Besides the above-mentioned conditions for selections in
general, a process of elimination results from the fact that
from youth on the German is cared for, guided, and educated by
the Party. First they are assembled in the Young Folk
[_Jungvolk_] from which the young people are transferred into
the HJ. The boy of the HJ enters the SA, the SS, the NSKK or the
NSFK or participates in the work of the affiliated organizations
of the Party. After labor and army service, he returns for
service to the Party and its affiliates, respectively.”
(_2401-PS_)

Special arrangements existed between Himmler’s SS and Schirach’s Hitler Youth concerning the recruiting of members of the Hitler Jugend for later service in the SS. Within the Hitler Youth was a special group called the _Streifendienst_ (Patrol Service). Concerning this special group, an official handbook on youth laws states:

“Organization of the _Streifendienst_.

“1. Since the _Streifendienst_ in the HJ has to perform tasks
similar to those of the SS for the whole movement, it is
organized as a special unit for the purpose of securing recruits
for the general SS; however, as much as possible, recruits for
the SS special troops, for the SS Death Head Troops, and for the
officer candidate schools should also be taken from these
formations.”

* * * * * *

“4a. The selection of _Streifendienst_ members is made according
to the principles of racial selection of the _Schutzstaffel_
[SS]; the competent officials of the SS, primarily unit leaders,
race authorities, and SS physicians, will be consulted for the
admission test.”

* * * * * *

“5. To insure from the beginning a good understanding between
Reich youth leadership and Reich SS leadership, a liaison office
will be ordered from the Reich youth leadership to the SS main
office starting 1 October 1938. The appointment of other leaders
to the SS sections is a subject for a future agreement.

“6. After the organization is completed, the SS takes its
replacement primarily from these _Streifendienst_ members.
Admission of youths of German blood who are not members of the
HJ is then possible only after information and advice of the
competent Bann leader.” (_2396-PS_)

Shortly afterwards, on 17 December 1938, Schirach and Himmler entered into and signed another agreement for recruiting SS members from the ranks of the Hitler Youth:

“To secure full success for the common effort of the SS and the
Hitler Youth by strict cooperation, to stem the flight from the
land, to build a new peasant class, to bring the best part of
the people into contact with the earth of the homeland, the
following arrangement has been made in connection with the
agreement of 26 August 1938.

“1. The farm service of the Hitler Youth is according to
education and aim, particularly well suited as a recruiting
organization for the _Schutzstaffel_ (general SS and the armed
sections of the SS; SS special troops and SS death head
battalions).

“2. Boys who suit the special demands of the SS according to
physical conditions and moral attitude are preferably admitted
into the farm service of the Hitler Youth.”

* * * * * *

“5. All farm service members who pass the general admission test
of the SS will be taken over into the general SS after leaving
the farm service.” (_2567-PS_)

Thus, by the end of 1938, the Hitler Youth had become the main source for future SS members. (For the criminal activities of the SS formations for which Hitler Youth members were recruited, see Section 5 of Chapter XV of the _Schutzstaffeln_ (SS).)

(7) _Schirach actively engaged in militarizing the Hitler Youth._ In June 1933, under an agreement between Hitler and Franz Seldte, which was negotiated in the presence of the Reich Minister of War, the “Steel Helmet League of Front Line Soldiers” (_Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten_) was incorporated into the Nazi movement. The _Scharnhorst_, the youth organization of the _Stahlhelm_, was integrated into the Hitler Youth. (_2260-PS_)

The Hitler Youth was generally set up along military lines with uniforms, ranks, and titles. It contained divisions called Naval Hitler Youth, Motorized Hitler Youth, Hitler Youth Flyers, and Signal Hitler Youth. According to an official document published by the Reich Youth Leadership under Schirach, the object of these divisions within the Hitler Youth was to prepare boys, respectively, for the German merchant marine and Navy, the National Socialist Motorized Corps (NSKK), for civil and military aviation, and for service with signal troops. (_2654-PS_)

On or about 11 August 1939, just before the invasion of Poland, an agreement was entered into between Schirach and Wilhelm Keitel, then Chief of the High Command of the _Wehrmacht_, which was declared by _Das Archiv_ to represent “the result of close cooperation” between these two conspirators. The agreement itself stated:

“While it is exclusively the task of the Hitler Youth to attend
to the training of their units in this direction, it is suitable
in the sense of a uniform training corresponding to the demands
of the _Wehrmacht_ to support the leadership of the Hitler Youth
for their responsible task as trainers and educators in all
fields of training for defense by special courses * * * A great
number of courses are in progress.” (_2398-PS_)

The agreement stated that it “gives the possibility of roughly redoubling” the same 30,000 leaders in the Hitler Youth schools for directing shooting practice and field training. Under the agreement, specific arrangements were made for messing and billeting the Hitler Youth leaders at _Wehrmacht_ installations. Former Hitler Youth leaders in the _Wehrmacht_, who were specially selected volunteers, were to be assigned as liaison officers and deputies for carrying out this military training. (_2398-PS_)

Hitler, in a speech in February 1938, represented that thousands of German boys had received specialized training in naval, aviation, and motorized groups within the Hitler Youth, and that over 1 million Hitler Youth members had received instructions in rifle shooting from 7,000 instructors. (_2454-PS_)

D. _SCHIRACH PROMOTED THE ACCESSION TO POWER OF THE NAZI CONSPIRATORS._

This allegation of the Indictment is born out by Schirach’s activities in converting students to National Socialism and by his Leadership of the Hitler Youth before the Nazis’ seizure of political power. These activities are described above.

E. _SCHIRACH PROMOTED THE CONSOLIDATION OF POWER OF THE NAZI
CONSPIRATORS._

Schirach’s acts in accomplishing the Nazis’ complete control over German youth are described above. These acts were of notable assistance to the Nazi conspirators in acquiring complete control of Germany during the pre-war years. Schirach’s own words in 1938 leave no doubt as to his own feeling of personal responsibility in this connection:

“The struggle for the unification of the German youth is
finished. I considered it as my duty to conduct it in a hard and
uncompromising manner. Many might not have realized why we went
through so much trouble for the sake of the youth. And yet: The
National Socialist German Workers’ Party, whose trustee I felt I
always was and always will be, this Party considered the
struggle for the youth as the decisive element for the future of
the German nation.”

* * * * * *

“And I promise the German public that the youth of the German
Reich, the youth of Adolf Hitler, will accomplish its duty in
the spirit of the man to whom alone their lives belong.”
(_2306-PS_)

F. _SCHIRACH PROMOTED THE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND EDUCATIONAL PREPARATIONS FOR AGGRESSIVE WAR AND THE MILITARIZATION OF NAZI-DOMINATED ORGANIZATIONS._

A general outline of Schirach’s acts bearing on this allegation of the Indictment appears above. By his own admission, Schirach was the principal Nazi responsible for driving the entire Nazi ideology into the minds of German youths, many of whom grew up to be fanatical Nazis like Schirach himself. From Hitler, in 1938, came boastings of the accomplishments of the Hitler Youth in military training. Through the vast propaganda network of the Reich Youth Leadership, through the Adolf Hitler Schools, through the minute regimentation of youth and its subjection to the Leadership Principle, and through the military training of German youth, Schirach fulfilled the edict of the basic law concerning the Hitler Youth:

“The future of the German nation depends on its youth, and the
German youth shall have to be prepared for its future duties”.

It has been demonstrated that the future duties of the youth entrusted to Schirach were participation in aggressive wars.

G. _SCHIRACH’S GENERAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES AS PARTY AND
GOVERNMENT LEADER IN THE REICHSGAU VIENNA._

(1) _Gau Leader_ (_Gauleiter_). Schirach was Gau Leader of the NSDAP for the Reichsgau Vienna from July 1940 to 1945. In common with all other Gau Leaders, Schirach was the highest representative of Hitler, the supreme Party Leader, in his Gau, and he was the bearer of sovereignty (_Hoheitstraeger_) of the Party for this regional division of the Party. As such, he possessed “sovereign political rights”; he represented the Party with his Gau; and he was “responsible for the entire political situation within” this Gau. (_1893-PS_)

The Party manual makes it mandatory that each Gau Leader meet at least once a month with leaders of the affiliated organizations of the NSDAP, including the SA and the SS, “for the purpose of mutual orientation”, and authorizes the Gau Leader to call upon SA leaders and SS leaders as “needed for the execution of a political mission.” As a Gau Leader Schirach was appointed by Hitler and was “directly subordinate” to him. He was responsible for coordinating activities of the NSDAP with various state authorities, including the police and the Gestapo. (_1893-PS_)

(2) _Reich Governor_ (_Reichsstatthalter_). Schirach was Reich Governor of the Reichsgau Vienna from July 1940 to 1945. After the _Anschluss_ the Nazi conspirators abolished the State of Austria as a sovereign state and divided Austria into seven Reich Gaus, the most important of which was the Reichsgau Vienna (_Reichsgau Wien_). Schirach, in his capacity as Reich Governor, was the lieutenant of the head of the German State, Hitler, in his Gau. As Reich Governor he was authorized to make decrees and issue orders within the limitations set by the supreme Reich authorities (_Oberste Reichsbehoerden_). He was especially under the administrative supervision of Frick, Reich Minister of Interior. The Reich Governor was also first mayor (_Erster Buergermeister_) of Vienna. (_3301-PS_)

Schirach was also Reich Defense Commissar of Vienna from 1940 to 1945. These government positions, along with his leadership of the Party in Vienna, made Schirach the most important representative of the Nazi conspirators in the Reichsgau Vienna. Schirach himself states that as Reich Governor his “field was the direction of the general administration” in Vienna. (_3302-PS_)

As the highest Party and State leader in the Reichsgau Vienna, Schirach was responsible for all the crimes of the Nazi conspirators in the Reichsgau Vienna on the ground that he either initiated, approved, executed, or abetted them. Specific examples, described below, demonstrate that in fact he was actively and personally engaged in Nazi crimes.

H. _SCHIRACH PARTICIPATED IN THE CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT CRIMES AGAINST
HUMANITY, PARTICULARLY ANTI-SEMITIC MEASURES._

Schirach bears responsibility for providing many, if not most, of the Death Head (_Totenkopf_) members of the SS, who, in the main, administered the concentration camps. As particularized above, the SS, by agreement between Himmler and Schirach, took “its replacement primarily” from _Streifendienst_ members of the Hitler Youth and only upon special permission could a non-Hitler Youth become an SS man. Nor can Schirach escape responsibility for his assistance in implanting in youth the Nazi ideology, with its tenets of a master race, “sub-human” peoples, and world domination. For such notions were the psychological prerequisites for the instigation and toleration of the atrocities which zealous Nazis committed throughout Germany and the occupied countries.

(1) _Schirach directed and participated in the Nazi conspirators’ slave labor program._

(For a full discussion of the slave labor program see Chapter X.)

Vienna was one of the principal cities and an independent Reichsgau of Greater Germany. Schirach, as Gau Leader and Reich Governor, was delegated far-reaching responsibilities concerning the slave labor program and hence shares responsibility for crimes of slave labor. (_3352-PS_)

This document proves that the Gau Leaders were required to be the supreme integrating and coordinating agents of the Nazi conspirators in executing the entire manpower program. A circular of the Party Chancellery of 22 March 1942 states that Goering, upon the suggestion of Sauckel, had agreed that the Gau Leaders were to become active as Sauckel’s special Plenipotentiaries (_Bevollmaechtigte_) in order that—

“By the leadership of the Party in full appreciation of the
competence of the corresponding Reich authorities, the highest
efficiency in the field of manpower shall be guaranteed.”
(_3352-PS_)

Goering gave Sauckel authority to issue orders to “the agencies of the Party, its member organizations and affiliated organizations” as well as to governmental authorities. By an order of 6 April 1942 Sauckel appointed the Gau Leaders as his “plenipotentiaries for manpower within their respective Gaus,” and charged them with the—

“* * * establishment of a harmonious cooperation of all agencies
of the State, of the Party, of the Armed Forces, and of the
Economy, charged with problems of manpower and thus to create
agreement between the different conceptions and requirements to
obtain the highest efficiency in the field of manpower.”
(_3352-PS_).

To insure that the Gau Leaders could efficiently perform their manpower tasks, the entire staff of the Provincial Labor Offices were—

“* * * directed to be at the disposal of the Gau Leaders for
information and advice and to fulfill the suggestions and
demands of the Gau Leader for the purpose of improvements or
manpower.” (_3352-PS_)

In this same order Sauckel said:

“By the above mentioned commission of the Gau Leaders of the
NSDAP, I intend to lead manpower utilization to the greatest
success.” (_3352-PS_)

Thus, Sauckel, himself an experienced Gau Leader, bears witness to the involvement after 1942 of the Gau Leaders, including Schirach, in the manpower utilization program of the Nazi conspirators.

Furthermore, a circular from the Party Chancellery of 4 August 1942, shows that “Bearers of Sovereignty” (_Hoheitstrager_) of the NSDAP (which included the Gau Leaders and hence Schirach) were to familiarize themselves with the execution of manpower directives on Eastern workers. One of the purposes of this directive was to prevent “inept Factory heads” from giving “too much consideration for the care of the Eastern Workers and thereby causing justified annoyance among the German workers” (_3352-PS_). What “consideration” was in fact meted out to Eastern Workers in the conspirators’ manpower utilization program is discussed in Chapter X.

(2) _Schirach participated in the conspiracy to persecute the Churches._ The activity of Schirach in persecuting churches by dissolving religious youth organizations or by incorporating them in the Hitler Youth has been set forth above.

Official letters of Martin Bormann and Hans Lammers, in March 1941, show that church properties in Austria had been confiscated for various pretexts after Schirach had become Gau Leader and Reich Governor of the Reichsgau Vienna. Upon a visit of Hitler to Vienna, Schirach and two other officials raised with him a complaint that the confiscations should be made in favor of Gaus rather than of the Reich. Thereafter all Gauleiters were notified that the decision had been made in favor of the position Schirach had taken before Hitler, namely in favor of the Gaus. (_R-146_)

(3) _Schirach participated in the conspiracy to persecute the Jews._ Even before assuming his Governmental functions in the Reichsgau Vienna, Schirach was responsible for encouraging anti-Jewish terror. Before 1939, at a meeting of Heidelberg students of the National Socialist German Students Bund (NSDStB), Schirach was chief speaker. After praising the students for devoting so much of their time to the affairs of the Party,

“* * * he declared that the most important phase of German
University life in the Third Reich was the program of the
NSDStB. He extolled various activities of the Bund. He reminded
the boys of the service they had rendered during the Jewish
purge. Dramatically he pointed across the river to the old
University town of Heidelberg where several burnt-out synagogues
were mute witnesses of the efficiency of Heidelberg students.
Those skeleton buildings would remain there for centuries, as
inspiration for future students, as warning to enemies of the
State.” (_2441-PS_)

Immediately after becoming Gau Leader and Reich Governor of the Reichsgau Vienna, Schirach’s anti-Jewish measures assumed more formidable proportions. As early as 7 November 1940, one Dr. Fischer, “by order” of the Reich Governor Schirach, stated that—

“investigations are being made at present by the Gestapo, to
find out how many able-bodied Jews are still available in order
to make plans for the contemplated mass projects. It is assumed
that there are not many more Jews available. If some still
should be available, however, the Gestapo has no scruples to use
the Jews even for the removal of the destroyed synagogues. SS
Colonel Huber will report personally to the
‘_Regierungspraesident_’ in this matter.” (_1948-PS_)

The _Regierungspraesident_ was Reich Governor Schirach’s personal representative “within the governmental administration” (_in der staatlichen Verwaltung_) of the Reichsgau. (_3301-PS_)

The above letter indicates that Schirach and his immediate subordinates not only knew of the atrocities which had been committed against the Jews by the Nazi conspirators in the Reichsgau, but also that they endorsed further forced labor of Jews and worked intimately with the Gestapo and the SS in their measures of persecution. Within six months after Schirach became Gau Leader and Reich Governor of Vienna, Dr. Hans Lammers informed Schirach that—

“the Fuehrer has decided after receipt of one of the reports
made by you, that the 60,000 Jews still residing in the
Reichsgau Vienna, will be deported most rapidly, that is still
during the war, to the General Government because of the housing
shortage prevalent in Vienna.” (_1950-PS_)

Lammers’ letter, dated 3 December 1940, informed Schirach that the Governor General of Poland, Hans Frank, and the Reichsfuehrer SS, Himmler, had been informed of the Fuehrer’s decision. (_1950-PS_)

Schirach’s guilt in this connection, by his own admission, however, runs even deeper. In a statement to the so-called European Youth League in Vienna in 1942, Schirach stated:

“Every Jew who exerts influence in Europe is a danger to
European culture. If anyone reproaches me with having driven
from this city, which was once the European metropolis of Jewry,
tens of thousands upon tens of thousands of Jews into the ghetto
of the East, I feel myself compelled to reply: I see in this an
action contributing to European culture.” (_3048-PS_)

(4) _Conclusion._ Schirach bears responsibility for rendering significant aid to the Nazi conspirators in each major phase of the conspiracy; winning Nazi supporters before the seizure of power; consolidating the Nazis’ control of Germany after the seizure of power; preparing for aggressive wars; and conducting aggressive wars. From the beginning he held important policy-making and administrative positions. From 1931 to the Nazis’ downfall, he was one of the small group of Reich Leaders (_Reichsleiter_) of the NSDAP who consorted together, directly subordinate only to Hitler himself, and who provided the innermost leaven of the Leadership Corps of the Party. For nearly a decade he was fully in charge of perpetrating the Nazi regime by poisoning the minds of the young generation. Although his principal assistance to the conspiracy was given by his commission of German youth to the conspirators’ objectives, still he also conspired to wage crimes against humanity as a Party and governmental administrator of high standing after the conspiracy had reached its inevitable involvement in war of aggression.

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LEGAL REFERENCES AND LIST OF DOCUMENTS RELATING TO BALDUR VON SCHIRACH

│ │ │
Document │ Description │ Vol. │ Page
│ │ │
│Charter of the International Military │ │
│ Tribunal, Article 6. │ I │ 5
│International Military Tribunal, │ │
│ Indictment Number 1, Section IV (H);│ │
│ Appendix A. │ I │ 29, 65
│ ———— │ │
│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. │ │
│ ———— │ │
1392-PS │Law on the Hitler Youth, 1 December │ │
│1936. 1936 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, │ │
│p. 993. │ III │ 972
│ │ │
*1458-PS │The Hitler Youth by Baldur von │ │
│Schirach, Leipzig, 1934. (USA 667) │ IV │ 22
│ │ │
1462-PS │First Execution Order to the Law of │ │
│the Hitler Youth, 25 March 1939. 1939 │ │
│Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 709. │ IV │ 44
│ │ │
*1893-PS │Extracts from Organization Book of the│ │
│NSDAP, 1943 edition. (USA 323) │ IV │ 529
│ │ │
*1948-PS │Letter from Governor in Vienna, 7 │ │
│November 1940, evidencing RSHA │ │
│instructions to recruit Jews from │ │
│forced labor. (USA 680) │ IV │ 586
│ │ │
*1950-PS │Secret letter from Lammers to │ │
│defendant von Schirach, 3 December │ │
│1940, concerning deportation of Jews. │ │
│(USA 681) │ IV │ 592
│ │ │
*2229-PS │The Reich Youth Leader at Work, │ │
│published in National Socialist Party │ │
│Press Service Release, 22 June 1933, │ │
│pp. 2-3. (USA 668) │ IV │ 870
│ │ │
2260-PS │Settlement of Relationship between │ │
│NSDAP and Stahlhelm (Steel Helmets) │ │
│published in National Socialist Party │ │
│Press Service release, 21 June 1933. │ IV │ 933
│ │ │
2306-PS │Revolution of Education, by Baldur von│ │
│Schirach, 1938, pp. 51-52, 63. (USA │ │
│860) │ IV │ 997
│ │ │
*2396-PS │Handbook of Collected Youth Laws, Vol.│ │
│I, Group 1, pp. 19a, 19b, 20. (USA │ │
│673) │ V │ 63
│ │ │
*2398-PS │Cooperation of Hitler Jugend with │ │
│Wehrmacht, 11 August 1939, published │ │
│in The Archive, No. 65, August 1939, │ │
│pp. 601-602. (USA 677) │ V │ 66
│ │ │
*2401-PS │The Hitler Youth as recruits for │ │
│future leaders, from Organization Book│ │
│of NSDAP, 1938, pp. 80-81. (USA 430) │ V │ 69
│ │ │
*2441-PS │Affidavit of Gregor Ziemer, 4 October │ │
│1945, from his book “Education for │ │
│Death”. (USA 679) │ V │ 141
│ │ │
*2454-PS │Quotations from speeches of Hitler, │ │
│published in Voelkischer Beobachter, │ │
│Munich edition. (USA 676) │ V │ 196
│ │ │
*2567-PS │Decree signed by Himmler and von │ │
│Schirach, concerning cooperation of HJ│ │
│and SS, printed in The Young Germany, │ │
│Berlin, February 1939. (USA 674) │ V │ 301
│ │ │
*2653-PS │The Way of German Youth, from The │ │
│Third Reich, 5th Year, 1937, pp. │ │
│117-118. (USA 669) │ V │ 359
│ │ │
*2654-PS │Organization and Insignia of the │ │
│Hitler Youth, edited by Reich Youth │ │
│Headquarters of NSDAP. (USA 675) │ V │ 361
│ │ │
*2973-PS │Statement by von Schirach concerning │ │
│positions held. (USA 14) │ V │ 679
│ │ │
*3048-PS │Speech by von Schirach before European│ │
│Youth Congress in Vienna, published in│ │
│Voelkischer Beobachter, 15 September │ │
│1942. (USA 274) │ V │ 776
│ │ │
3054-PS │“The Nazi Plan”, script of a motion │ │
│picture composed of captured German │ │
│film. (USA 167) │ V │ 801
│ │ │
3301-PS │Law concerning construction of │ │
│Administration in Austria, 14 April │ │
│1939. 1939 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, │ │
│p. 777. │ V │ 1093
│ │ │
*3302-PS │Affidavit of von Schirach, 4 December │ │
│1945, concerning positions held. (USA │ │
│665) │ V │ 1096
│ │ │
*3348-PS │Young Replacement Problems, published │ │
│in Decrees, Regulations, │ │
│Announcements, Vol. I, pp. 298-9, 303.│ │
│(USA 410) │ VI │ 79
│ │ │
*3349-PS │Press and propaganda Office of Hitler │ │
│Youth, published in Organization Book │ │
│of the NSDAP, 1936, pp. 452-453. (USA │ │
│666) │ VI │ 79
│ │ │
*3352-PS │Manpower, published in Decrees, │ │
│Regulations, Announcements, Vol. II, │ │
│pp. 507-513, 567. (USA 206) │ VI │ 81
│ │ │
*3459-PS │Article on Meeting of Reich Group of │ │
│Young Law Guardians on 19 May 1939, │ │
│from Congress of German Law, 1939. │ │
│(USA 670) │ VI │ 159
│ │ │
*3464-PS │National Socialist Students League │ │
│from Organization Book of NSDAP, 1936 │ │
│and 1937. (USA 666) │ VI │ 166
│ │ │
*3870-PS │Affidavit of Hans Marsalek, 8 April │ │
│1946, concerning Mauthausen │ │
│Concentration Camp and dying statement│ │
│of Franz Ziereis, the Commandant. (USA│ │
│797) │ VI │ 790
│ │ │
*L-360-H │Agreement between the League for │ │
│Germandom in Foreign Countries and the│ │
│Hitler Youth, 6 May 1933. (USA 671) │ VII │ 1108
│ │ │
R-146 │Letter from Bormann to all Gauleiters,│ │
│20 March 1941, enclosing letter of Dr.│ │
│Lammers to the Reich Minister of the │ │
│Interior, 14 March 1941. (USA 678) │ VIII │ 250
│ │ │
*Chart No. 1 │National Socialist German Workers’ │ │
│Party, (2903-PS; USA 2) │ VIII │ 770

17. MARTIN BORMANN

A. _POSITIONS HELD BY BORMANN._

(1) _Between 1925 and 1945 Bormann held the following positions_:

(_a_) Member of the Nazi Party 1925-1945.

(_b_) Member of the Reichstag, November 1933-1945.

(_c_) Member of the Staff of the Supreme Command of the SA, 15 November 1928 to August 1930.

(_d_) Founder and head of _Hilfskasse der NSDAP_, August 1930 to July 1933.

(_e_) Reichsleiter, July 1933-1945.

(_f_) Chief of Staff, Office of the Fuehrer’s Deputy, July 1933 to May 1941.

(_g_) Head of the Party Chancery, 12 May 1941-1945.

(_h_) Secretary of the Fuehrer, 12 April 1943-1945. (_2981-PS_)

(_i_) Member of the Council of Ministers for the Defense of the Reich, 29 May 1942-1945. (_2099-PS_)

(_j_) Political and organizational head of the Volkssturm. (_3018-PS_)

(_k_) General in the SS. (_3234-PS_)

(2) _During this period Bormann also held the following position_: Member of the Reich Cabinet, 29 May 1941 to 1945. (_2099-PS_)

B. _PROMOTION OF THE ACCESSION TO POWER OF THE NAZI CONSPIRATORS,
ESTABLISHMENT OF TOTALITARIAN CONTROL OVER GERMANY, AND PREPARATION FOR
WAR._

Within the conspiracy Martin Bormann had the managerial task of operating the Nazis’ Party as a center of control for the benefit of the conspirators. First as the executive chief of the Nazi Party under Hess, and since 1941 himself the head of the Party, subject only to Hitler’s supreme authority, Bormann was a key member of the Nazi conspiracy. The Party constituted the most powerful instrument of public control at the disposal of the conspirators. Through the Party the conspirators were able to gain and retain power in Germany. Through it they imposed their will on the German nation and obtained its support for their aggressive wars. Bormann is thus responsible for the crimes committed by the Party under the orders of the conspirators.

Bormann began his conspiratorial activities more than 20 years ago. In 1922, when only 22 years old, he joined the Organization Rossbach, one of the armed illegal groups which developed the aggressive traditions of the German Army and established a regime of terror against the small pacifist minority in Germany. While he was District Leader of the Organization for Mecklenburg, he was arrested and tried for his part in a political terror assassination. On 15 May 1924 he was found guilty by the State Tribunal for the Protection of the Republic and sentenced to one year in prison. (_2981-PS_; _3355-PS_)

Upon his release from jail in 1925, Bormann again took up his subversive activities. First, he joined the Militarist Organization Frontbann. Then, in the same year, he became a member of the reconstituted Nazi Party, and began his rise to one of the most influential positions in the conspiracy. In 1927 he became Press Chief for the Party Gau of Thuringia. On 1 April 1928 he was made a District Leader in Thuringia, and Business Manager for the entire Gau.

From 15 November 1928 to August 1930 he was on the Staff of the Supreme Command of the SA. Thus he participated decisively in the development of these uniformed shock troops with which the conspirators terrorized and destroyed their opposition inside Germany. (See Section 4 of chapter XV on the SA.)

In August 1930 Bormann organized the Aid Fund (_Hilfskasse_) of the Nazi Party, of which he became the head. Through this Fund he collected large sums for the Party Treasury, allegedly for the purpose of aiding families of Party members who had been killed or imprisoned while “fighting” for the Party. (_3236-PS_)

On 30 January 1933 the conspirators and their Party took over the government of Germany. Shortly thereafter, in July 1933, Bormann was given the number-three post in the Party Organization, that of Chief of Staff to Rudolf Hess, then Hitler’s Deputy. At the same time he was made a member of the Party Directorate (_Reichsleiter_). In November 1933, he was made a member of the Reichstag. (_3236-PS_)

As Hess’ Chief of Staff, Bormann was responsible for channeling to him the demands of the Party in all the fields of government action. These demands were then imposed by Hess, through his participation in Cabinet meetings, on legislation, public administration, and appointments. (_Chart Number 15_; _1395-PS_; _2001-PS_; _D-138_; _3180-PS_)

Bormann also used the Party in order to strengthen the hold of the Gestapo and the SD over the German people. On 14 February 1935 Bormann ordered all Party officers to assist the SD in its work described as “benefiting principally the Party” (_3237-PS_). On 3 September 1935 Bormann ordered Party agencies to hand persons who criticize the Nazi Party or institutions over to the Gestapo. (_3239-PS_) An order of the Party Chancery issued on 14 December 1938, demanded closest cooperation between Party agencies and Gestapo (_1723-PS_).

After the flight of Hess to Scotland on 10 May 1941, Bormann succeeded him as head of the Party under Hitler, with the title of Chief of the Party Chancery. In that position he took over all offices and powers formerly held by Hess, especially his membership in the Cabinet and on the Ministers’ Council for the Defense of the Reich (_2099-PS_).

Only 8 months later, Hitler issued another Decree which extended Bormann’s powers even beyond those which had been granted to Hess. By that Decree Bormann was given extensive control over the preparation of all laws and directives of the Cabinet, the Fuehrer, and the Ministers’ Council for the Defense of the Reich, and over the appointment of all public officials (the latter, in Germany, included Judges and university teachers) (_2100-PS_). Under this legislation Bormann must be held at least jointly responsible for every law and order issued after 24 January 1942 by which the conspirators carried out their crimes.

This decisive participation of Bormann and the Party agencies under his direct control in the day-to-day administration of the German war program was buttressed by the Order of the Ministers’ Council for the Defense of the Reich, dated 1 December 1942, under which all Party Gau Leaders were appointed Reich Defense Commissioners and all Gaus became Reich Defense Districts (_3235-PS_). Under this Order the Gau leaders, who were Party functionaries under the orders of Bormann, became the Chief Administrators of the entire civilian war effort, not only in Germany proper but also in all incorporated territories.

This development constituted the culmination of the integration of Party and State which had begun almost ten years earlier. From then on, the Party, through Bormann, became a decisive factor in the initiation and execution of all German war policies, after having been charged in the preceding years with much of the political and pre-military preparation of the German people for the aggressive wars of the Conspirators. (_3242-PS_)

C. _DISCRIMINATION AGAINST AND PERSECUTION OF OPPOSITION._

Bormann participated actively in the execution of that part of the conspirators’ program relating to the persecution and destruction of independent groups which were opposed to the aims of the Conspiracy.

(1) _Persecution of the Churches._ Bormann was among the most relentless members of the conspirators in the persecution of the churches. In a secret order of 6 June 1941 he stated bluntly the aim of the conspirators—to destroy Christianity altogether:

“National Socialist and Christian concepts are irreconcilable *
* *. No human being would know anything of Christianity if it
had not been drilled into him in his childhood by pastors. The
so-called dear God in no wise gives knowledge of his existence
to young people in advance, but in an astonishing manner in
spite of his omnipotence leaves this to the efforts of the
pastors. If, therefore, in the future our youth learns nothing
more of this Christianity whose doctrines are far below ours,
Christianity will disappear by itself.” (_D-75_; see also
_098-PS_)

In pursuance of this aim, Bormann’s first efforts in the conspiracy’s fight against religion were directed toward the elimination of churchmen and church influence from the Party itself. On 3 July 1938 a Bormann order prohibited clergymen from holding Party offices (_113-PS_). A Bormann circular of 3 June 1939 excluded Christian Scientists from Party membership (_838-PS_). Bormann Decrees of 9 February 1937 and 14 July 1939 excluded clergymen and theology students from membership in the Nazi Party (_840-PS_). And a Bormann directive of 17 June 1938, prohibited all religious activities by members of the Labor Service. (_107-PS_)

Bormann also opposed religious instruction in the schools. A letter from Bormann’s office to Rosenberg on 25 April 1941 reported success in reducing the holding of religious morning services in schools and proposed the substitution of National Socialist school services. (_070-PS_)

In order further to weaken the churches, Bormann enforced the elimination of numerous Catholic and Protestant Divinity Schools in Germany and Austria. In a letter to The Minister of Education, dated 24 January 1939, Bormann denied the scientific value of theological instruction and suggested a legal basis for the suppression and restriction of Divinity Schools (_116-PS_). This was followed by a report of The Ministry of Education, dated 6 April 1939, concerning the suppression and consolidation of Divinity Schools (_122-PS_). A confidential letter from Bormann to The Minister of Education, dated 23 June 1939, in reply to memorandum of 6 April 1939 (_122-PS_), reported the Party’s decision to order the suppression of numerous Divinity Schools (_123-PS_). In a letter to Rosenberg on 12 December 1939 Bormann agreed with the suggestion that the University Chairs belonging to the Divinity School in the University of Munich be used for instructors at the Nazi Academy (_Hohe Schule_). (_131-PS_)

Bormann also used his power and position in order to demand that other government departments deprive the churches of their property and subject them to a discriminatory legal regime. A Bormann letter to The Reich Minister of Finance in January 1940, demanded that church assessments for special war tax be greatly increased (_099-PS_). In a letter to Amann on 8 March 1940, Bormann demanded reduction in the paper allotment of church publications (_089-PS_). A Bormann letter to Rosenberg on 24 June 1940 submitted the draft of a discriminatory church law for Danzig and West Prussia (_066-PS_). Throughout 1940-1941 Bormann corresponded with numerous officials concerning confiscation of religious art treasures. (_1600-PS_)

Finally, as the war took an increasing part of Germany’s youth into the Armed Forces, Bormann insisted that soldiers be removed from all religious influence. In a letter to the Army High Command in January 1939, Bormann opposed the establishment of an Army Corps of Chaplains (_117-PS_). A Bormann letter to Rosenberg on 17 January 1940 suggested the publication of special Nazi literature for members of the _Wehrmacht_ in order to replace religious literature which the writer had as yet been unable to suppress completely (_101-PS_). In a letter to Rosenberg the next day (18 January 1940) Bormann stated that the publication of Nazi literature for Army recruits as a countermeasure to the circulation of religious writings was “the most essential demand of the hour.” (_100-PS_)

When the prosecution of this anti-Church program was turned over to the RSHA under Himmler, the “Church Specialists” of that organization received clear instructions as to the aims which the Conspirators wanted them to achieve, at a meeting of the “Church Specialists” called for that purpose on 26 September 1941:

“The immediate aim: the church must not regain one inch of the
ground it has lost.

“The ultimate aim: destruction of the churches to be brought
about by the collection of all material obtained through
_Nachrichtendienst_ activities, which will, at a given time, be
produced as evidence for the charge of treasonable activities
during the German fight for existence.” (_1815-PS_)

Five years earlier, Bormann had already issued an order to all Party members demanding that they turn priests who criticized the Party over to the Gestapo (_3246-PS_). Bormann thus bears responsibility for the mistreatment of priests in concentration camps throughout these years. (_3249-PS_)

(2) _Persecution of the Jews._ It was Bormann who was charged by Hitler with the transmission and implementation of the latter’s instructions for the “liquidation” of the Jewish population in Germany.

After the pogrom of 8-9 November 1938, Bormann, acting on orders of Hitler, instructed Goering to proceed to the “final settlement of the Jewish question” in Germany. (_1816-PS_)

As a result of this conference a series of anti-Jewish decrees were issued. A Bormann order of 17 January 1939 demanded compliance with new regulations under which Jews were denied access to housing, travel, and other facilities. (_069-PS_; see _1409-PS_)

Bormann also acted through other government agencies to wipe out the economic existence of a large part of the Jewish population. A Bormann order of 8 January 1937 communicated an order by Frick, issued at his instigation, that government employees who consult Jewish doctors, lawyers, etc., will be denied financial assistance. (_3240-PS_)

In addition to these purely economic measures Bormann, again acting on instructions from Hitler, caused Goering to issue a secret order severely restricting the living conditions of Jews in Germany. (_841-PS_)

After the outbreak of the war these anti-Jewish measures increased in intensity and brutality. Thus, Bormann participated in the issuance of rulings under which 60,000 Jewish inhabitants of Vienna were deported to the Government General of Poland, in cooperation with the SS and the Gestapo. (_1950-PS_)

After Bormann succeeded Hess as the executive head of the Party, he was one of the prime movers in the campaign of total spoliation, starvation, and extermination of the Jews living under the rule of the Conspirators. A Bormann order of 23 October 1942 announced a Ministry of Foods decree, issued at his instigation, depriving Jews of many essential food items, and of all special sickness and pregnancy rations, and ordering the confiscation of food parcels (_3243-PS_). On 9 October 1942 Bormann ordered that the problem of eliminating forever the millions of Jews from Greater German territory could no longer be solved by emigration but only by the application of “ruthless force” in special camps in the East (_3244-PS_). The Thirteenth Ordinance under The Reich Citizen Law of 1 July 1943 (RGBl, 1943, Part I, p. 372), signed by Bormann, completely excluded Jews from the ordinary courts and handed them over to the exclusive jurisdiction of Himmler’s police. (_1422-PS_; see also _3085-PS_)

D. _THE CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT WAR CRIMES._

Bormann’s broad powers over all political aspects of the war as a member of the Reich Cabinet and the Ministers’ Council for the Defense of the Reich, and as executive head of the Party, were buttressed by the creation of the post of Secretary of the Fuehrer, to which he was appointed on 12 April 1943 (_2981-PS_). In that position Bormann participated in all Hitler’s conferences and became involved in the planning of war crimes by his co-conspirators.

Even before April 1943, however, Bormann took part in planning the basic war policies of the conspiracy. Thus, on 16 July 1941, just three weeks after the invasion of USSR Territory, Bormann participated in a conference at Hitler’s field headquarters with Goering, Rosenberg, Keitel, and Reich Minister Lammers. This conference resulted in the adoption of detailed plans for the enslavement, depopulation, and annexation of extensive territories in Russia and other countries of Eastern Europe. In his report on this conference, Bormann included numerous suggestions of his own for the effective execution of these plans. (_L-221_)

During subsequent years, Bormann took a prominent part in the implementation of this conspiratorial program. A conference on Eastern Territories between Hitler, Rosenberg, Lammers, and Bormann on 8 May 1942, concerned _inter alia_ the suppression of religious freedom, the forceable resettlement of Dutch peasants in Latvia, the extermination program in Russia, and the economic exploitation of Eastern Territories (_1520-PS_). Rosenberg and Bormann corresponded concerning the confiscation of property, especially art treasures, in the East (_072-PS_; _071-PS_). A secret Bormann letter of 11 January 1944 discussed large-scale organization for the withdrawal of commodities from occupied territories for the use of the bombed-out population in Germany. (_061-PS_; see also _327-PS_)

At the same time, Bormann issued a series of orders establishing Party jurisdiction over the treatment of prisoners of war, especially when employed as forced labor (_232-PS_). In the exercise of that jurisdiction, he called for excessively harsh and brutal treatment of Allied Prisoners of War. Bormann issued instructions on 5 November 1941 prohibiting decent burials with religious ceremonies for Russian Prisoners of War (_D-163_). A Bormann circular of 25 November 1943 demanded harsher treatment of prisoners of war and the fuller utilization of their man-power (_228-PS_). In a secret circular transmitting OKH instructions of 29 January 1943, Bormann provided for the enforcement of labor demands on Prisoners of War through the use of fire-arms and corporal punishment. (_656-PS_)

These instructions issued by Bormann culminated in the decree of September 30 1944, signed by him. This decree took jurisdiction over all prisoners of war out of the hands of the OKW, handed them over to the control of Himmler, and provided that all prisoner of war camp commanders should be under the orders of the local SS Commanders (_058-PS_). Through this order, Himmler was enabled to proceed with his program of extermination of Prisoners of War. Bormann also bears part of the responsibility for the organized lynching of Allied airmen. As early as March 1940 Hess had ordered all Party leaders to instruct the civilian population to “arrest or liquidate” all bailed-out allied fliers (_062-PS_). In order to assure the success of this scheme Bormann issued a secret circular prohibiting any police measures or criminal proceedings against civilians who had lynched British or American fliers (_057-PS_). For the execution of these decrees, regulations were issued to cover the systematic application of Lynch Law against captured Allied airmen (_735-PS_). That such lynchings actually took place has since been fully established in a series of American Military Commission proceedings, which resulted in the conviction of German civilians for the murder of Allied fliers. (_2559-PS_; _2560-PS_; _2561-PS_)

E. _THE CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY._

Bormann played an important role in the administration of the forced labor program. A Bormann circular of 5 May 1943 contained detailed directions as to the treatment of foreign workers, stating especially that they were subject to SS control for all security matters and that differentiation between them and Germans was all-important (_205-PS_). At a conference held on 4 September 1942 it was decided that recruiting, mobilization, and treatment of 500,000 female domestic workers from the East would be handled exclusively by Sauckel, Himmler, and Bormann. (_025-PS_; see also _D-226_)

Bormann also imposed his views on the administration of the occupied areas and insisted on the ruthless exploitation of the subjected populations in the East. His views were stated in an official memorandum of the Ministry for the Eastern Territories, headed by Rosenberg, in which they were described as governing actual administrative practice in the East:

“The Slavs are to work for us. In so far as we don’t need them,
they may die. Therefore compulsory vaccination and German health
services are superfluous. The fertility of the Slavs is
undesirable. They may use contraceptives or practice abortion,
the more the better. Education is dangerous. It is enough if
they can count up to 100. At best an education which produces
useful stooges for us is admissible. Every educated person is a
future enemy. Religion we leave to them as a means of diversion.
As for food they won’t get any more than is necessary. We are
the masters, we come first.” (_R-36_)