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to accord with the offices and regions controlled by the
Hoheitsträger. If I might be more explicit, let us take the SA.
The subsidiary formations of the SA came down and corresponded, in
its lower organizations, to the Gau, so that we have a Gauleitung in
the SA, and further down, to the Kreis, so that we have a
Kreisleitung in the SA, so that the Gauleiter and the Kreisleiter, to
cite two examples, charged with a particular duty by the Führer,
could call on these organizations for assistance in carrying out
their tasks.
These sinister implications of the use of this power will become
more apparent as the Prosecution's case develops, and as the wealth
of evidentiary material is introduced into evidence to prove the
criminality of the defendant organizations.
The component Party-organizations, called
"Gliederungen" within the Party, are shown at the extreme
left of the chart, and are the organizations to which I directed the
attention of Your Honors a moment ago. These organizations actually
constitute the Party itself, and substantially the entire
Party-membership is contained within these organizations. The four
principal organizations are sometimes referred to as
"pare-military" organizations. They were uniformed
organizations and they were armed. These organizations were the
notorious SA and SS, which are named as party-defendants in this
case, the HJ (Hitler Youth), and the NSKK- the Motor Corps of the
Party (Kraftfahrkorps). Then there were also the National Socialist
Women's Organization, the National Socialist German Students' Bund
(Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund), and the National
Socialist University Teachers' Organization (Nationalsozialistischer
Dozentenbund).
There are additional organizations that were officially
designated within the Party, as affiliated organizations, not
Gliederungen or controlled organizations, but affiliated
organizations (Angeschlossene Verbände der NSDAP). Among those
organizations we have the German Labor Front (Deutsche
Arbeitsfront)--the DAF; we have an organization that controlled the
civil service (Reichsbund der Deutschen Beamten). There were the
physicians within the National Socialist Deutscher Ärztebund;
there were the teachers in the National Socialist Lehrerbund; there
were the lawyers within the National Socialist Rechtswahrerbund, of
which, at one time, the Defendant Frank was the head.
There is another group of organizations which was officially
known as supervised organizations (Betreute Organisationen der
NSDAP), organizations that included certain specialized women's
organizations (Deutsches Frauenwerk), certain student societies
(Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Studentenschaft), former university
students (Altherrenbund der Deutschen Studenten). There was a