Conspirators deliberately planned, determined upon,
and launched their aggressive wars and wars in violation of
international treaties, agreements, and assurances by the phases and
steps hereinafter more particularly described.
(C) DOCTRINAL TECHNIQUES OF THE COMMON
PLAN OR
CONSPIRACY
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 put forth,
disseminated, and exploited certain doctrines, among others, as
follows:
1. That persons of so-called
"German 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
Führerprinzip (Leadership Principle) according to which power
was to reside in a Führer from whom sub-leaders were to derive
authority in a hierarchical order, each sub-leader to owe
unconditional obedience to his immediate superior but to be absolute
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 necessary activity of Germans;
4. That the leadership of the Nazi Party, as the sole bearer of
the foregoing 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.
(D) THE ACQUIRING OF TOTALITARIAN CONTROL
OF
GERMANY: POLITICAL
1. First steps in acquisition of control of
State machinery
.
In order to accomplish their aims and purposes,
the Nazi conspirators prepared to seize totalitarian control over
Germany to assure that no effective resistance 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 overthrow the German Government by "legal"
forms supported by terrorism. They created and utilized, as a Party
formation, Die Sturmabteilungen (SA), a semi-military, voluntary
organization