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Cabinet issued a law for "Securing the Unity of Party and
State." This law was signed by Hitler and the Defendant Frick.
Article 1 provided that the Nazi Party:
". . . is the bearer of the
concept of the State and is inseparably the State. It will be a part
of the public law. Its organization will be determined by the
Führer."
Article 2 provided:
"The Deputy of the Führer and
the Chief of Staff of the SA will become members of the Reich Cabinet
in order to insure close cooperation of the offices of the Party and
SA with public authorities."
Article 3 provided:
"The members of the National Socialist
German Workers Party and the SA (including their subordinate
organizations) as the leading and driving force of the National
Socialist State will bear greater responsibility toward Führer,
People, and State."
[A recess was taken.]
COL. STOREY: During the recess defendants'
counsel and the Prosecution arrived at an agreement for the
furnishing of briefs to the defendants, which I understand to be
this:
Copies of the documents offered in evidence in
German will be delivered in the Defendants" Information Center,
with the understanding that if any Defense Counsel needs to show the
German photostatic copy to his client he may do so in the defendants'
counsel room adjacent thereto; that the briefs which we are passing
to the Tribunal as an aid will likewise be passed to defendants'
counsel in English, and that if any of them have trouble in the
translation of any portion of the briefs, we have German-speaking
officers in the Defendants' Information Center who will assist
counsel. I understand that all of these defendants' counsel have so
agreed.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Now, Major Wallis.
MAJOR WALLIS: May it please the Court, at the moment of recess I
was referring to the law which was passed on 1 December 1933, for
securing the unity of Party and State.
Article 6 of that law provided:
"The public authorities have to
grant legal and administrative assistance to the offices of the Party
and the SA which are entrusted with the execution of the jurisdiction
of the Party and SA."
Article 8 provided:
"The Reich Chancellor as Führer of the
National Socialistic German Workers Party and, as the supreme
commander of