were established early in 1933 under the
direction of the Defendant GÖRING . and expanded as a fixed part
of the terroristic policy and method of the conspirators and used by
them for the commission of the Crimes against Humanity hereinafter
alleged. Among the principal agencies utilized in the perpetration of
these crimes were the SS and the GESTAPO, which, together with other
favored branches or agencies of the State and Party, were permitted
to operate without restraint of law.
(c) The Nazi conspirators conceived that, in addition to the
suppression of distinctively political opposition, it was necessary
to suppress or exterminate certain other movements or groups which
they regarded as obstacles to their retention of total control in
Germany and to the aggressive aims of the conspiracy abroad.
Accordingly:
(1) The Nazi conspirators destroyed the
free trade unions in Germany by confiscating their funds and
properties, persecuting their leaders, prohibiting their activities,
and supplanting them by an affiliated Party organization. The
Leadership Principle was introduced into industrial relations, the
entrepreneur becoming the leader and the workers becoming his
followers. Thus any potential resistance of the workers was
frustrated and the productive labor capacity of the German Nation was
brought under the effective control of the conspirators.
(2) The Nazi conspirators, by promoting beliefs and practices
incompatible with Christian teaching, sought to subvert the influence
of the churches over the people and in particular over the youth of
Germany. They avowed their aim to eliminate the Christian churches in
Germany and sought to substitute therefor Nazi institutions and Nazi
beliefs, and pursued a program of persecution of priests, clergy, and
members of monastic orders whom they deemed opposed to their
purposes, and confiscated church property.
(3) The persecution by the Nazi conspirators of pacifist groups,
including religious movements dedicated to pacifism, was particularly
relentless and cruel.
(d) Implementing their "master race"
policy, the conspirators joined in a program of relentless
persecution of the Jews, designed to exterminate them. Annihilation
of the Jews became an official State policy, carried out both by
official action and by incitements to mob and individual violence.
The conspirators openly avowed their purpose. For example, the
Defendant ROSENBERG stated: "Anti-Semitism is the