20 Nov. 45
The Defendant Ley declared:
"We swear we are not going to
abandon the struggle until the last Jew in Europe has been
exterminated and is actually dead. It is not enough to isolate the
Jewish enemy of mankind-the Jew has got to be exterminated."
On another occasion he also declared: "
The second German secret weapon is anti-Semitism, because if it
is consistently pursued by Germany, it will become a universal
problem which all nations will be forced to consider."
The Defendant Streicher declared:
"The sun will not shine on the
nations of the earth until the last Jew is dead."
These avowals and incitements were typical of the declarations of
the Nazi conspirators throughout the course of their conspiracy. The
program of action against the Jews included disfranchisement
stigmatization, denial of civil liberties, subjecting their persona
and property to violence, deportation, enslavement, enforced labor,
starvation, murder and mass extermination. The extent to which the
conspirators succeeded in their purpose can only be estimated, but
the annihilation was substantially complete in many localities of
Europe. Of the 9,600,000 Jews who lived in the parts of Europe under
Nazi domination, it is conservatively estimated that 5,700,000 have
disappeared, moat of them deliberately put to death by the Nazi
conspirators. Only remnants of the Jewish population of Europe
remain.
(e) In order to make the German people amenable to their will,
and to prepare them psychologically for war, the Nazi conspirators
reshaped the educational system and particularly the education and
training of the German youth. The Leadership Principle was introduced
into the schools, and the Party and affiliated organizations were
given wide supervisory powers over education. The Nazi conspirators
imposed a supervision of all cultural activities, controlled the
dissemination of information and the expression of opinion within
Germany as well as the movement of intelligence of all kinds from and
into Germany, and created a vast propaganda machine.
(f) The Nazi conspirators placed a considerable number of their
dominated organizations on a progressively militarized footing with a
view to the rapid transformation and use of such organizations
whenever necessary as instruments of war.
(E) The acquiring of totalitarian control in Germany: economic;
and the economic planning and mobilization for aggressive war.