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The tribunal itself heard % wit.
nesses for the organizations.
The documents rendered in evi-
dence upon both sides were most
Yoluminous.
A complete stenographic record
of everything said in court was
p1ade as well as an electrical re-
tording of all the proceedings
Copies of all the documents put
in evidence by the prosecution were
supplied to the defense in the Ger
man language The majority ol
these documents were captured BY
the Allied armies in German Army
headquarters, government buildings
and elsewhere. Some of them were
found in salt mines, buried in the
ground or hidden behind false
walls.
Except in one or two isolated
cases the authenticity of these
documents was never challenged
and the case against the defendants
rested in large measure upon
documents of their own making.
HISTORY OF THE NAZI
REGIME.
The tribunal then deals with the
origin and aims of the NaA Party
and the establishment of the Naz
regime in Germany 1t deals with
certain points of the party pro-
gram in these words:
The demand for the unifica ton
of all Germans in the Greater Ger
many was to play large part in
the events preceding the seizure OF
Austria and CZechoslovakia; the
Rbrogation Of the Treaty of Versailles
was to become decisive motive in
attempting to justify the policy OF
the German government; the de-
mand for land was to be the juStifi-
cation for the acquisition of living
space at the expense of other ma
tions; the expulsion of the Jews from
membership of the race of German
blood was to lead to the atrocities
against the Jewish people, and the
demand for a national army was to
result in measures for rearmament
on the largest possible scale and
ultimately war"
The tribunal then discussed the
constitution and the procedure with
in the party dealing especially with
the leadership principle (fuehrer-
prinzip).
The tribunal then dealt with the
Munich putsch of November, 1928,
the use of the SA, the formation
Of the SIS in 1925 and the publica-
ton of ''Mein Kampf" in the same
year; the formation of youth Or
CARNATIONS and their education; the
efforts made by the party to win
political support from the German
people, the methods of the NSDA
pleaders, and the attacks upon the
democratic structure of the Weimar
Republic.
The negotiations leading to the
APPOINTMENT of Hitler as Chancel-
lor of the Reich by President Won
Hindenberg on January 80, 1888,
were recorded. The parts played
by individual defendants, such as
Goering, Schacht and Won Papen
were analyzed.
After Hitler's accession to power
the Reichstag building in Berlin wa:
set on fire in February, 1888. Thi!
fire was used by Hitler and his cabi.
net as pretext for suspending the
constitutional guarantees of free
dom, the persecution of other po-
litical parties, the use of the con-
centration camps, the founding Of
the Gestapo as a secret police, the
elimination of political opponent.
and reduction of the powers of re.
gional and local government!
throughout Germany were all de.
signed to keep absolute politica
power in the hands of the govern.
ment.
The government secured contro
of the civil service, subjected the ju.
dietary to strict control. Destroyed
the trade unions and conflscated
their property and imprisoned theil
leaders, prosecuted the churches anc
began the campaign against the
Jews. The government controlled
the press, the radio and industry.
MEASURES OF REARMAMENT
The tribunal then proceeded tc
deal with the measures of rearma.
ment and the reorganization of the
economic life of Germany.
At the party rally in Nuremberg
in 1886 Hitler announced the
establishment of the four-year plar
and the appointment of Goering
as the plenipotentiary in charge
Thereafter Goering began to builo
strong air force and announced
on July 8, 1888, that the German
air force was already superior ir
quality and quantity to the English
He said he had been ordered tt
build as rapidly as possible ar
air force five times as large, te
increase the speed of army ane
navy rearmament and to concen.
trate on offensive weapons, prin.
cipally heavy artillery and heavy
tanks. The extent to which thi!
vast rearmament had been ac.
complished was stated by Hitle,
on October 19, 1899:
The military application of oul
peoples strength has been carried
through to such an extent that
within short time at any rate, i
cannot be markedly improved upol
by any manner of effort"
In an endeayor to reassure publ
opinion in other countries this Gov
ernment announced in 1885 tha
while the disarmament clauses ha,
been renounced, Germany would stil
respect the territorial limitations O
the Versailles treaty and would com
ply with the Locarno pacts. On tn
very day that the announcement wa
made secret Reich defense law wa
passed and its publicat ton forbidden
by Hitler.
Treaty Breached.
The German Navy built up il
breach Of the treaty of Versatile,
particularly in the construction c
the new submarine arm and so a
early as May of 1884 Admiral Raede
issued a secret rearmament pla
which contained this sentence: "a
theoretical and practical prepara
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