17 Dec. 45
Hoheitsträger ... as regards their
special missions. The Hoheitsträger are superior to all political
leaders, managers, and so forth, within their sector. As regards
personal consideration, Hoheitsträger are endowed with special
rights ....
"The Hoheitsträger of the Party are not to be
administrative officials ... but are to move in a continuous vital
contact with the political leaders of the population within their
sector. The Hoheitsträger are responsible for the proper and good
supervision of all members of the nation within their sector ....
"The Party intends to achieve a state of affairs in which the
individual German will find his way to the Party ...."
The
distinctive character of the Politische Leiter constituting the
Hoheitsträger and their existence and operation as an identifiable
group are indicated by the publication of a magazine entitled Der
Hoheitsträger whose distribution was limited by regulation
of the Reich Organization Leader to the Hoheitsträger and certain
other designated Politische Leiter. I now refer to Document 2660-PS,
which I offer in evidence; and I would like to digress from the
published manuscript and call Number 2660-PS Exhibit Number USA-325. I
would like to exhibit this book to Your Honors. This is the book itself
and it is for the Hoheitsträger with a very limited distribution,
and I quote from the inside cover of this magazine which reads as
follows — it is right in the beginning:
"Der Hoheitsträger the
contents of which is to be handled confidentially, serves only for the
orientation of the competent leaders. It may not be loaned out to
other persons."
Then follows
a list of the Hoheitsträger and other political leaders authorized
to receive the magazine. The magazine states, in addition, that the
following are entitled to receive it — I would like to emphasize
the ones to receive it:
"Commandants, unit commanders, and
'Ordensburg' members; The Reich, Shock Troop, and Gau speakers of the
NSDAP; the Obergruppenführer and Gruppenführer of the SA,
the SS, the NSFK" — which is the Flying Corps — "and
the NSKK" — the Party Motor Corps — " Obergebietsführer
and Gebietsführer of the HJ" — that is the Hitler
Jugend.
The fact that this
magazine existed, that it derived its name from the commanding officers
of the Leadership Corps, that it was distributed to the elite of the
Leadership Corps, in other words, that a house bulletin was circulated
down the command channels of the Leadership Corps is probative of the
fact that the Leadership Corps of the Nazi Party was a group or an
organization within the meaning of Article 9 of the Charter.