To ensure close collaboration of the Party organizations with the offices of the State, the Deputy Fuehrer is appointed Member of the Government of the Reich. In order to win over the masses of the population to the Fascist regime, the Hitlerites introduced the most shameless social bribery, besides gambling upon national feelings and unheard, of social demagogy. Numerous members of these organizations were connected with the Fascist regime not only through various privileges and material advantages, but also by mutual responsibility in the perpetration of crimes committed in common. The overwhelming machinery of terror with its ramified network of detection, provocation, perfidy, concentration camps, and summary justice operated, against all malcontents in the regime. After having achieved, with the assistance of the Party, full control over Germany, Hitler's conspirators began the realization of their aggressive plans.
All offices are under the control of the supreme political leadership.
When we spoke here, at the trial, about Goebbels's lies, Himmler's terrorism and Ribbentrop's perfidy - this referred in its entirety to the Nazi Party. These proofs were quite sufficient to recognize the entire Nazi Party as a criminal organization, as understood in Article 9 of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal. However, the prosecution does not put the question about the responsibility of the rank and file of the Party, many of whom became the victims of their own credulity. In full conformity with the Indictment we raise the question of declaring it a criminal organization, only in so far as it concerns the Leadership Corps of the Nazi Party, which was the brain, backbone and motive power of this party, without which the Hitlerite conspirators would not have been able to carry out their criminal plans. The Leadership Corps was a special, selected group, within the Nazi Party itself, and as such was endowed with extraordinary prerogatives.