Evening star., 1945-10-18

ods of conspiracy:
The aims and purposes of the
Nazi party and of the defendants
and divers other persons from time
to tirle associated as leaders, men,
bers. supporters or adherents of the
Nazi party hereinafter called col
lectively the "Nazi conspirators'D
were, or came to be, to accomplish
the following by any means deemed
opportune, including wful
means, and contemplating ultimate
resort to threat of force, force and
aggressive war:
ID To abrogate and. overthrow
the Treaty of Versailles and its re-
strictions upon the military arma-
ment and activity of Germany;
CID To acquire the territories
lost by Germany as the result of
the World War of 19l4-1918 and
other territories in Europe asserted
by the Nazi conspirators to be oc-
cupied principally by socalled racial
Germans;
Gid To acquire still further ter
ritories in continental Europe and
elsewhere claimed by the NaI con-
spirators to be required by the
racial Germans" as "Lebensraum, ;"
or living space, all at the expense
of neighboring and other countries
When their expanding aims and
purposes became finally so great as
to provoke such strength of resis-
tance as could be overthrown only
by armed force and aggressive war,
and not simply by the opportunistic
methods heretofore used. such as
fraud, deceit, threats, intimidation,
fifth column activities and propa-
ganda, the Nazi conspirators de-
liberately planned, determined upon
and launched their aggressive wars
and wars in violation of interna-
tional treaties, agreements and as
suranceS.
Leadership Principle Cited.
Co Doctrinal techniques of the
common plan or conspiracy to in
cite others to join in the common
plan or conspiracy, and as means
of securing for the Nazi conspirators
the highest degree of control over
the German community, they put
forth, disseminated and exploited
certain doctrines, among others, as
follows:
l. That persons of so-called Ger
man blood" (as specified by the NaZi
conspirators) were a master race"
and were accordingly entitled to
subjugate, dominate or exterminate
other races" and peoples.
2. That the German people should
be ruled under the Fuehrerprinzip
Leadership principle according to
which power was to reside In a
Fuehrer from whom subleaders were
to derive authority in a hierarchial
order, each subleader to owe uncon-
ditional obedience to his immediate
superior but to be absolutely in his
own sphere of jurisdiction, and the
power of the leadership was to be
unlimited, extending to all phases of
public and private life).
3. That war was a noble and nee
essary activity Of Germans.
4. That the leadership of the Nazi
party, as the sole bearer of the fore
going and other doctrines of the
Nazi party, was entitled to shape
the structure. policies and practices
of the German state and all related
institutions, to direct and supervise
the activities of all individuals
within the state and to destroy all
opponents.
Cd The acquiring of totalitarian
control of Germany:
Political a.. Il
/. First steps in acquisition of con-
troll of state machinery in order to-
accomplish their aims and purposes,
the Nazi conspirators prepared to-
seize totalitarian control over Ger
many to assure that no effective re-
sistance against them could arise
within Germany itself. After the
failure of the Munich putsch of
1923, aimed at the overthrow of the
Weimar Republic by direct action.
the Nazi conspirators set out
through the Nazi party TO undermine
and capture the German govern
ment by legal" forms supported
by terrorism. They created and
utilized, as party formation, Die
Sturmabteilungen (SA 4, semi
military, voluntary organization of
young men trained for and COM
mitted to the use of violence, whose
mission was to make the party the
master of the streets.
2. Control acquired on 30th jan
uary, 1888, Hitler became Chancel-
lor of the German republic. After
the Reichstag fire of 28th Febru-
ary, 10 clauses of the Weimar con-
stitution guaranteeing personal lib
erty, freedom of speech, of the
press, of. association and assembly
were suspended The con-
spirators caused all political parties
except the Nazi party to be pro-
hibited.
Nation Put on Military Basis.
g. Consolidation of control. Thus
possessed of the machinery of the
German state, the Nazi conspira-
tors set about the consolidation of
their position of power within Ger
many, the determination of poten-
tial internal resistance and the
placing of the German nation on
military footing.
(a) The Nazi conspirators reduced
the Reichstag to body of their
own nominees and curtailed the
freedom of popular elections
throughout the country. They
united the Offices of the President
and Chancellor in the person of
Hitler, instituted widespread
purge of civil servants, and severely
restricted the independence of the
judiciary and rendered it subser-
Went to Nazi ends. a
(b) In order to make their rule
secure from attack and to instill
fear in the hearts of the German
people, the Nazi conspirators estab-
lished and extended a system of
terror against opponents and sup