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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. *651-PSConfidential circular signed by Schlegeberger, 31 January 1938, concerning representation by Counsel of Inmates of concentration camps. (USA 730) ......................... III466 *783-PSLetter from Guertner to Mutschmann, 18 January 1935, concerning charges against members of camp personnel of protective custody Camp Hohnstein. (USA 731) .........................III558 *784-PSLetters from Minister of Justice to Hess and SA Chief of Staff, 5 June 1935, concerning penal proceedings against merchant and SA leader and 22 companions because of inflicting bodily injury on duty. (USA 732) .........................III559 *785-PSMemorandum of Guertner concerning legal proceedings against the camp personnel of concentration camp Hohnstein. (USA 733) .........................III564 *786-PSMinister of Justice memorandum, 29 November 1935, concerning pardon of those sentenced in connection with mistreatment in Hohnstein concentration camp. (USA 734) ........................III568 *787-PSMemorandum to Hitler from Public Prosecutor of Dresden, 18 June 1935, concerning criminal procedure against Vogel on account of bodily injury while in office. (USA 421) ........................III568 *788-PSLetters from Secretary of State to the Minister of Justice, 25 June 1935 and 9 September 1935, concerning criminal procedure against Vogel. (USA 735) .........................III571 1388-PSLaw concerning confiscation of Property subversive to People and State, 14 July 1933. 1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 479 .........................III962 *1395-PSLaw to insure the unity of Party and State, 1 December 1933. 1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 1016. (GB 252) .........................III978 1397-PSLaw for the reestablishment of the Professional Civil Service, 7 April 1933. 1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 175 .........................III981 1398-PSLaw to supplement the Law for the restoration of the Professional Civil Service, 20 July 1933. 1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 518 .........................III986 1400-PSLaw changing the regulations
7 April 1933. 1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 175 .........................III981 1398-PSLaw to supplement the Law for the restoration of the Professional Civil Service, 20 July 1933. 1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 518 .........................III986 1400-PSLaw changing the regulations in regard to public officer, 30 June 1933. 1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 433 .........................III987 1653-PSFirst regulation concerning the reconstruction of the Reich, 2 February 1934. 1934 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 81 .........................IV162 1725-PSDecree enforcing law for securing the unity of Party and State, 29 March 1935. 1935 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 502 .........................IV224 *1893-PSExtracts from Organization Book of the NSDAP, 1943 edition. (USA 323) ........................IV529 2001-PSLaw to Remove the Distress of People and State, 24 March 1933. 1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 141 .........................IV638 2003-PSLaw concerning the Sovereign Head of the German Reich, 1 August 1934. 1934 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 747 .........................IV639 2004-PSPreliminary law for the coordination of Federal States under the Reich, 31 March 1933. 1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 153 .........................IV640 2005-PSSecond law integrating the "Laender" with the Reich, 7 April 1933. 1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 173 .........................IV641 2006-PSLaw for the reconstruction of the Reich, 30 January 1934. 1934 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 75 .........................IV642 2008-PSGerman Communal Ordinance, 30 January 1935. 1935 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 49 .........................IV643 2012-PSFirst regulation for administration of the law for the restoration of professional Civil Service, 11 April 1933. 1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 195 .........................IV647 2014-PSLaw amending regulations of criminal law and criminal procedure, 24 April 1934. 1934 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 341 .........................IV648 *2018-PSFuehrer's decree establishing a Ministerial Council for Reich Defense, 30 August 1939. 1939 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 1539. (GB 250) .........................IV650 2049-PSSecond Decree concerning the reconstruction of the Reich, 27 November 1934. 1934
p. 341 .........................IV648 *2018-PSFuehrer's decree establishing a Ministerial Council for Reich Defense, 30 August 1939. 1939 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 1539. (GB 250) .........................IV650 2049-PSSecond Decree concerning the reconstruction of the Reich, 27 November 1934. 1934 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 1189 .........................IV661 2050-PSThe Constitution of the German Reich, 11 August 1919. 1919 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I,p.1383 .........................IV662 2065-PSDecree concerning the extension of the Jurisdiction of Special Courts, 20 November 1938. 1938 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 1632 .........................IV698 2061-PSOath of Reich Officials and of German Soldiers, 20 August 1934. 1934 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 785 ......................... IV702 2073-PSDecree concerning the appointment of a Chief of German Police in the Ministry of the Interior, 17 June 1936. 1936 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 487 .........................IV703 2076-PSDecree of the Government concerning formation of Special Courts, 21 March 1933. 1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, pp. 136-137 .........................IV705 *2194-PSTop secret letter from Ministry for Economy and Labor, Saxony, to Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, enclosing copy of 1938 Secret Defense Law of 4 September 1938. (USA 36) .........................IV843 *2261-PSDirective from Blomberg to Supreme Commanders of Army, Navy and Air Forces, 24 June 1935; accompanied by copy of Reich Defense Law of 21 May 1935 and copy of Decision of Reich Cabinet of 12 May 1935 on the Council for defense of the Reich. (USA 24) .........................IV934 2326-PSReich Principles Regarding recruiting appointment and promotion of Reich and Provincial Officials, 14 October 1936. 1936 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 893 .........................IV1034 2340-PSGerman public officials law of 27 January 1937. 1937 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 41 .........................IV1058 2341-PSDecree on education and Training of German officials, 28 February 1939. 1939 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 371 .........................IV1062 2342-PSLaw on People's Court and on 25th Amendment to Salary Law of 18 April 1936. 1936 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I,
2341-PSDecree on education and Training of German officials, 28 February 1939. 1939 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 371 .........................IV1062 2342-PSLaw on People's Court and on 25th Amendment to Salary Law of 18 April 1936. 1936 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 369 ......................... IV1062 2355-PSSecond Law Relating to right to vote for Reichstag, 18 March 1938. 1938 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 258 .........................IV1098 2378-PSExtracts from Documents of German Politics, Vol. 4, pp. 207,337 .........................V4 *2380-PSArticles from National Socialist Yearbook, 1935. (USA 396) ........................V6 *2381-PSExtracts from The Greater German Diet, 1943. (USA 476) .........................V7 2382-PSLaw relating to the Reich Election, 8 March 1924. 1924 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, pp. 159-162 .........................V8 *2383-PSOrdinance 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) ......................... V9 2384-PSThe Delegates of the German People, published in Movement, State and People in their organizations, 1935, p. 161 ......................... V23 2402-PSGuide for Party Courts, 17 February 1934 ..........................V70 *2426-PSExtracts from Speeches, by Hess. (GB 253) .........................V90 2481-PSExtracts from Four Years of the Third Reich, by Frick, published in Magazine of the Academy for German Law, 1937 .........................V231 2482-PSExtract from German Justice, a legal periodical, 10th Year, Edition A, No. 42, 16 October 1942 .........................V233 2639-PSOrdinances of the Deputy of the Fuehrer, published in Munich 1937 .........................V345 2647-PSlaw relating to the abolition of the Reichsrat, 14 February 1934. 1934 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 89 ......................... V358 2755-PSResolution of the Greater German Reichstag, 26 April 1942. 1942 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 247 .........................V393 2787-PSExcerpt from Order of the Deputy of the Fuehrer .........................V420 2867-PSThird Decree relating to Implementation of Law for restoration of Professional Civil Service, 6 May 1933. 1933
26 April 1942. 1942 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 247 .........................V393 2787-PSExcerpt from Order of the Deputy of the Fuehrer .........................V420 2867-PSThird Decree relating to Implementation of Law for restoration of Professional Civil Service, 6 May 1933. 1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 245..........................V527 2880-PSExtracts from Handbook for Administrative Officials, 1942 .........................V547 2881-PSHitler's speech of 12 April 1922, quoted in Adolf Hitler's Speeches, published by Dr. Ernst Boepple, Munich, 1934, pp. 20-21, 72 .........................V548 2882-PSThe Party Program of 1922, By Rosenberg, 25Th edition, 1942, p. 60 ..........................V548 2883-PSExtracts from Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, 41st edition, 1933 ..........................V549 *2955-PSAffidavit of Magnus Heimannsbegr, 14 November 1945, referring to SA and other Nazi groups posted at polling places. (USA 755) ..........................V659 2957-PSExtract from German Civil Servants Calendar, 1940, p. 111 .........................V663 *2967-PSAffidavit of Dr. Hans Anschuetz, 17 November 1945. (USA 756) ..........................V673 *3054-PS"The Nazi Plan", script of a motion picture composed of captured German film. (USA 167) ..........................V801 D-229Extract from pamphlet "Judges Letters" concerning judgment of Lower Court, 24 April 1942, on concealment of Jewish identification ..........................VI1091 *R-142Memoranda to Koblenz District Headquarters, 22 April 1938 And 7 May 1938, relating to the plebiscite of 10 April 1938. (USA 481) ..........................VIII243 Statement XThe Relationship of Party and State, AS It Existed in Reality, by Wilhelm Stuckhart, Nurnberg, 1 December 1945 ..........................VIII736 *Chart No. 1National Socialist German Workers' Party. (2903-PS; USA 2) ..........................VIII770 *Chart No. 18Organization of the Reich Government. (2905-PS; USA 3) ......................... End of VolumeVIII 4. PURGE OF POLITICAL OPPONENTS AND TERRORIZATION A. The Nazi conspirators ruthlessly purged their political opponents. Soon after the Nazi conspirators had acquired political control, the defendant Goering, 3 March 1933, stated: "Fellow Germans, my measures will not be
End of VolumeVIII 4. PURGE OF POLITICAL OPPONENTS AND TERRORIZATION A. The Nazi conspirators ruthlessly purged their political opponents. Soon after the Nazi conspirators had acquired political control, the defendant Goering, 3 March 1933, stated: "Fellow Germans, my measures will not be crippled by any judicial thinking. My measures will not be crippled by any bureaucracy. Here, I don't have to give justice, my mission is only to destroy and exterminate, nothing more! This struggle, fellow Germans, will be a struggle against chaos and such a struggle, I shall not conduct with the power of any police. A bourgeoise state might have done that. Certainly, I shall use the power of the State and the police to the utmost, my dear Communists! So you won't draw any false conclusions; but the struggle to the death, in which my fist will grasp your necks, I shall lead with those down there-those are the Brown Shirts." (1856-PS) In 1934 Heinrich Himmler, the Deputy Leader of the Prussian Secret State Police, stated: "We are confronted with a very pressing duty-both the open and secret enemies of the Fuehrer and of the National Socialist movement and of our National Revolution must be discovered, combatted and exterminated. In this duty we are agreed to spare neither our own blood nor the blood of anyone else when it is required by our country." (2543-PS) Raymond H. Geist, former American Counsel and First Secretary of the Embassy in Berlin, Germany 1929-1939, has stated: "Immediately in 1933, the concentration camps were established and put under charge of the Gestapo. Only 'political' prisoners were held in concentration camps * * *. "The first wave of terroristic acts began in March 6-13, 1933, accompanied by unusual mob violence. When the Nazi Party won the elections in March 1933-on the morning of the 6th-the accumulated passion blew off in wholesale attacks on the Communists, Jews, and others suspected of being either. Mobs of SA men roamed the streets, beating up, looting, and even killing persons * * *. "For Germans taken into custody by the Gestapo * * * there was a regular pattern of brutality and terror. Victims numbered in the hundreds of thousands all over Germany." (1759-PS)
Jews, and others suspected of being either. Mobs of SA men roamed the streets, beating up, looting, and even killing persons * * *. "For Germans taken into custody by the Gestapo * * * there was a regular pattern of brutality and terror. Victims numbered in the hundreds of thousands all over Germany." (1759-PS) The Sturmabteilung (SA) had plans for the murder of former Prime Minister Bruening, but his life was spared through the negotiations and activities of the defendant Hess and Dr. Haushofer, President of the Geopolitic Institute of Munich, because they feared his death might result in serious repercussions abroad. (1669-PS) From March until October 1933 the Nazi conspirators arrested, mistreated and killed numerous politicians, Reichstag members, authors, physicians, and lawyers. Among the persons killed were the Social Democrat Stolling; Ernst Heilman, Social Democrat and member of the Prussian Parliament; Otto Eggerstadt, the former Police President of Altona; and various other persons. The people killed by the Nazis belonged to various political parties and religious faiths, such as Democrats, Catholics, Communists, Jews, and pacifists. The killings were usually camouflaged by such utterances as "killed in attempting to escape" or "resisting arrest." It is estimated that during this first wave of terror conducted by the Nazi conspirators, between 500 and 700 persons died. (2544-PS; see also 2460-PS and 2472-PS.) On 30 June, and 1, 2 July 1934, the Nazi conspirators proceeded to destroy opposition within their own ranks by wholesale murder (2545-PS). In making a formal report of these murders to the Reichstag on 13 July 1934, Hitler stated: "The punishment for these crimes was hard and severe. There were shot 19 higher SA leaders, 31 SA leaders and SA members and also 3 SS leaders as participants in the plot. Also 13 SA leaders and civilians who tried to resist arrest and were killed in the attempt. 3 others committed suicide. 5 members of the Party who were not members of the SA were shot because of their participation. Finally, 3 SS members were at the same time exterminated because they had maltreated concentration camp inmates." (2572-PS) In this same speech, Hitler proudly boasted that he gave the order to shoot the principal traitors and
of the Party who were not members of the SA were shot because of their participation. Finally, 3 SS members were at the same time exterminated because they had maltreated concentration camp inmates." (2572-PS) In this same speech, Hitler proudly boasted that he gave the order to shoot the principal traitors and that he had prosecuted thousands of his former enemies on account of their corruption. He justified this action by saying, "In this hour I was responsible for the fate of the German people." (Voelkischer Beobachter (People's Observer), Berlin ed., issue 195, 14 July 1934, Beiblatt, p. 2.) The conspirators took advantage of this occasion to eliminate many opponents indiscriminately. In discussing the Roehm purge, the defendant Frick stated: "On account of this order, many, many people were arrested * * * something like a hundred, even more, were even killed who were accused of high treason. All of this was done without resort to legal proceedings. They were just killed on the spot. Many people were killed-I don't know how many-who actually did not have anything to do with the putsch. People who just weren't liked very well, as, for instance, SCHLEICHER, the former Reich Chancellor, were killed. SCHLEICHER's wife was also killed as was GREGOR STRASSER, who had been the Reich organization leader and second man in the Party after Hitler. STRASSER, at the time he was murdered, was not active in political affairs anymore. However, he had separated himself from the Fuehrer in November or December of 1932." (2950-PS) Such a large scale of extermination could not be carried out without errors. Shortly after the event, the Nazi conspirators arranged for a Government pension to be paid to one of its citizens, because "by mistake" the political police had murdered her husband, Willi Schmidt, who had never engaged in any kind of political activity. It was believed at the time that the man intended was Willi Schmidt, an SA leader in Munich, who was later shot on the same day. (L-135) The Nazi conspirators formally endorsed their murderous purge within their own ranks by causing the Reichstag to pass a law declaring that all measures taken in carrying out the purge on 30 June and 1-2 July 1934 were legal as a measure of State necessity
who was later shot on the same day. (L-135) The Nazi conspirators formally endorsed their murderous purge within their own ranks by causing the Reichstag to pass a law declaring that all measures taken in carrying out the purge on 30 June and 1-2 July 1934 were legal as a measure of State necessity (2057-PS). Referring to this act of approval on the part of the Nazi-controlled Reichstag, Goering stated: "The action of the Government in the days of the Roehm revolt was the highest realization of the legal consciousness of the people. Later the action which itself was justified, now has been made legal by the passage of a law." (2496-PS) Furthermore, the leader of the Nazi conspiracy on 25 July 1934 issued a decree which stated that because of the meritorious service of the SS, especially in connection with the events of 30 June 1934, the organization was elevated to the standing of an independent organization within the NSDAP. (1857-PS) B. The Nazi conspirators used the legislative and judicial powers of the German Reich to terrorize all political opponents. (1) They created a great number of new political crimes. The decree of 28 February 1933 punished the inciting of disobedience to orders given out by State or Reich Government authorities or the provocation of acts "contrary to public welfare." (1390-PS) A month later, in order to give themselves legal justification for murdering by judicial process their political enemies, the Nazi conspirators passed a law making the provisions of the above decree applicable retroactively to acts committed during the period from 31 January to 28 February 1933. (2554-PS) Referring to these laws, the defendant Goering stated: "Whoever in the future raises a hand against a representative of the National Socialist movement or of the State, must know that he will lose his life in a very short while. Furthermore, it will be entirely sufficient if he is proven to have intended the act, or, if the act results not in a death, but only in an injury." (2494-PS) On 21 March 1933 a decree was issued which provided for penitentiary imprisonment up to two years for possessing a uniform of an organization supporting the government of the Nationalist movement without being entitled thereto, or
act results not in a death, but only in an injury." (2494-PS) On 21 March 1933 a decree was issued which provided for penitentiary imprisonment up to two years for possessing a uniform of an organization supporting the government of the Nationalist movement without being entitled thereto, or circulating a statement which was untrue or greatly exaggerated, or which was apt to seriously harm the welfare of the Reich or the reputation of the Government, or of the Party or organizations supporting the Government. (1652-PS) The Nazi conspirators caused a law to be enacted punishing whoever undertook to maintain or form a political party other than the NSDAP. (1388-PS) The Nazi conspirators enacted a law which made it a crime deliberately to make false or grave statements calculated to injure the welfare or the prestige of the Reich, or to circulate a statement manifesting a malicious or low-minded attitude toward leading personalities of the State or the Party. The law also applied to statements of this kind which were not made in public, provided the offender counted on his statements being eventually circulated in public. (1393-PS) In commenting on the above law, one of the leading Nazi conspirators, Martin Bormann, stated: "Although it must absolutely be prevented that martyrs are created, one must take merciless action against such people, in whose attacks a bad character or attitude, decisively inimical to the State, can be recognized. For this purpose, I request the Gauleiters to report here briefly all crimes, which must absolutely be punished, and which have become known to the districts, regardless of the report to be made to the district attorney's office * * *. "The district and local leaderships are to be notified accordingly. However, if it should be decided from wherein this or that punishable case, that the miscreant is to be given a simple or strong reprimand by the court, I shall give the directive for the future, that the Districts are informed of the names of the persons. "I therefore request, to see to it, that these compatriots be especially watched by the Ortsgruppen, and that it be attempted, to influence them in the National Socialist sense. Otherwise, it will be necessary to