Text: English     International Military Tribunal "Blue Series," Vol. 2, p. 181
		22 Nov. 45 Moreover, these conspirators again and again publicly announced to the still unbelieving world that they proposed to accomplish these objectives by any means found opportune, including illegal means and resort to threat of force, force, and aggressive war. The use of force was distinctly sanctioned, in fact guaranteed, by official statements and directives of the conspirators which made activism and aggressiveness a political quality obligatory for Party members. As Hitler stated in Mein Kampf: "What we needed and still need are not a hundred or two hundred reckless conspirators, but a hundred thousand and a second hundred thousand fighters for our philosophy of life." In 1929 Hitler stated: "We confess further that we will tear anyone to pieces who would dare hinder us in this undertaking. Our rights will be protected only when the German Reich is again supported by the point of the German dagger." Hitler, in 1934, addressing the Party Congress at Nuremberg, stated the duties of Party members in the following terms: "Only a part of the people will consist of really active fighters. It is they who were fighters of the National Socialist revolution. Of them, more is demanded than of the millions among the rest of the population. For them it is not sufficient to confess, 'I believe', but to swear, 'I fight'." In proof of the fact that the Party was committed to the use of any means, whether or not legal or honorable, it is only necessary to remind the Court that the Party virtually opened its public career by staging a revolution--the Munich Putsch of 1923. Now let us consider for a moment the doctrinal techniques of the Common Plan or Conspiracy which are alleged in the Indictment. To incite others to join in the Common Plan or Conspiracy and as a means of securing for the Nazi conspirators the highest degree of control over the German community, they disseminated and exploited certain doctrines. The first of these was the "master race" doctrine--that persons of so-called "German blood" were a master race. This doctrine of racial supremacy was incorporated as Point 4 in the Party program, which provided: "Only a member of the race can be a citizen. A member of the race can only be one who is of German blood without consideration of confession. Consequently, no Jew can be a member of the race." 181
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