23 Nov. 45 1945
at Nuremberg, Germany, before James H. Johnson, First Lieutenant,
Office of the United States Chief of Counsel.
This chart visualizes, as vividly as possible, just how this
militarization took place in Germany. The chart is entitled,
"The Organic Incorporation of German Nationals into the National
Socialist System, and the Way to Political Leadership."
Starting at the bottom of the chart, you see the young folk,
between the ages of 10 and 14 The arrows point both right and left.
The arrow to the right is the Adolf Hitler School, for youth between
the ages of 12 and 18. Both from the school and from the young folk,
they proceed to the Hitler Jugend. At 18 years of age, they graduate
from the Hitler Jugend into the various Party formations, the SA, the
SS, the NSKK, the NSFK. At the age of 20, they continue from these
Party formations into the Labor Front, and from the Labor Front,
after they have served their period of time there, back again to the
Party formations, of the SA, the SS, NSKK, NSFK, until they reach the
age of 21. Then they proceed into the Army, serve in the Army from
the ages of 21 to 23, and then back again into the Party formations
of SA, SS, et cetera.
And then from that group, the select move up to be Political
Leaders (Letter) of the Nazi Party, and from that group are selected
the cream of the crop who go to the Nazi Party Special Schools and
from these schools, as is represented on the top of the chart,
graduate the political Führer of the people.
I would emphasize again to the Court that this chart is not
anything that was prepared by Counsel in this case. It was prepared
by the Nazi Party people and it comes from their own history.
Thus, by the end of the pre-war period, the Nazi conspirators had
achieved one of the first major steps in their grand conspiracy. All
phases of German life were dominated by Nazi doctrine and practice
and mobilized for the accomplishment of their militant aims. The
extent to which this was accomplished can be no better expressed than
in the words of Hitler when he spoke to the Reichstag on 20 February
1938. I refer to Document 2715-PS. He said:
"Only now have we succeeded in
setting before us the great tasks and in possessing the material
things which are the prerequisites for the realization of great
creative plans in all fields of our national existence. Thus,
National Socialism has made up with a few years for what centuries
before it had omitted.... National Socialism has given the German
people that leadership which as Party not only mobilizes thenation
but also organizes it, so that on the basis of the natural principle
of selection, the continuance of a stable political leadership is
safeguarded forever.... National Socialism