17 Dec. 45
THE PRESIDENT: Very well.
COL. STOREY: It may be doubted that the average German ever looked upon
the face of Heinrich Himmler. But the man in the street in Nazi Germany
could not have avoided an uneasy acquaintance with the Blockleiter in
his own neighborhood. As it is the "cop on the beat" rather
than the chief magistrate of the nation who symbolizes law enforcement
to the average man and woman, so it was the Blockleiter who represented
to the people of Germany the police state of Hitler's Germany. In fact,
as may be inferred from the evidence, the Blockleiter were "little
Führer's with real and literal power over the civilians in their
domains. As proof of the authority of the Blockleiter to exercise
coercion and the threat of force upon the civil population, I quote from
Document 2833-PS, which is an excerpt from Page 7 of the magazine
entitled The Face of the Party, Document 2833-PS. It is just a
line of quotation:
"Advice and sometimes also the
harsher form of education is employed if the faulty conduct of an
individual harms this individual himself, and thus also the community."
Before I get to the numbers, I wanted to deal with the Hoheitsträger.
THE PRESIDENT: Don't you think it is time to break off?
COL. STOREY: Yes.
THE PRESIDENT: Until 2 o'clock.
[A recess was taken until 1400 hours.]