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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."