17 Dec. 45
If the Tribunal please, I will not read all of them but
will call attention only to certain of them, as follows:
Martin Bormann, Chief of the Party Chancellery; then we skip over to
Wilhelm Frick, Leader of the National Socialist fraction in the
Reichstag, shown on the big chart over at the second box from the end on
the right; Joseph Goebbels, Reich Propaganda Leader of the NSDAP, shown
also on the same level; Heinrich Himmler, Reich Leader of the SS, the
Deputy of the NSDAP for all questions of Germandom; Robert Ley, Reich
Organization Leader of the NSDAP and Leader of the German Labor Front;
Victor Lutze, Chief of Staff of the SA; Alfred Rosenberg, representative
of the Führer for the supervision of all mental and ideological
training and education of the NSDAP; Baldur von Schirach, Reich Leader
for the education of the youth of the National Socialist Party; and
then, finally, Franz Schwarz, Reich Treasurer of the National Socialist
Party.
The principal functions of the Reichsleiter, which we might call
directors, included the responsibility of carrying out the tasks and
missions assigned to them by the Führer or by the Chief of the
Party Chancellery, the Defendant Martin Bormann. The Reichsleiter were
further charged with insuring that Party policies were being executed in
all the subordinate areas of the Reich. They were also responsible for
insuring a continual flow of new leadership into the Party.
With respect to the function and the responsibilities of the
Reichsleiter I now quote from Page 20 of Document Number 1893-PS:
"The NSDAP represents the political
conception, the political conscience, and the political will of the
German nation. Political conception, political conscience, and
political will are embodied in the person of the Führer Based on
his directive and in accordance with the program of the NSDAP, the
organs of the Reich Directorate directionally determine the political
aims of the German people. It is in the Reich Directorate" —
or Reichsleitung — " that the arteries of the organization
of the German people and State merge. It is the task of the separate
organs of the Reich Directorate to maintain as close a contact as
possible with the life of the nation through their sub-offices in the
Gau ....
"The structure of the Reich Directorate is thus that the channel
from the lowest Party office upwards shows the most minute weaknesses
and changes in the mood of the people ....
"Another essential task of the Reich Directorate is to assure a
good selection of leaders. It is the duty of the Reich Directorate to
see that there is leadership in all phases of life,