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According to the Party manual, the Hoheitsträger
had the same authority to call upon the services of the SS and NSKK as
they possessed with respect to the SA.
With respect to the authority of the Hoheitsträger to call upon
the services of the Hitler Youth (the HJ), the Party manual states, and
I quote from Page 11, the last paragraph of that translation:
"The political leader has the right
to requisition the HJ" - that is the Hitler Jugend — "in
the same manner as the SA for the execution of a political action ....
"In appointing leaders of the HJ ... the office of the HJ must
procure the approval of the Hoheitsträger of its zone. This means
that the Hoheitsträger can prevent the appointment of leaders
unsuited for the leadership of youth. If his approval has not been
procured, an appointment may be cancelled if he so requests."
An example of the use of the Party formations at the call of the
Leadership Corps of the Party is provided by the action taken by the
Reichsleiter for Party Organization of the National Socialist Party, Dr.
Robert Ley, leading to the deliberate dissolution of the Free Trade
Unions on 2 May 1933. 1 quote from Document 392-PS, Exhibit Number
USA-326, which is a copy of the directive issued by the Defendant Ley on
21 April 1933, reproduced on Pages 51-52 of the Social Life in New
Germany by Professor Müller In this directive the late
Defendant Ley directed the employment of the SA and the SS in the
occupation of trade unions and for taking trade union leaders into
protective custody. I now quote from Paragraph 6 of Page 1 of Document
392-PS. It is the third and fourth paragraph from the bottom of the
page:
"SA as well as SS are to be employed
for the occupation of trade union properties and for the taking of
personalities, who come into question, into protective custody.
"The Gauleiter is to proceed with his measures on a basis of the
closest understanding with the competent regional cell director."
a I also quote from the second paragraph of Page 2 of that same document
which reads, quoting:
"The following are to be taken into
protective custody: All trade union chairmen, the district secretaries
and the branch directors of the 'Bank for Workers, Employees, and
Officials, Incorporated,' included."
I now offer in evidence Document 2474-PS, Exhibit Number USA-327, which
is a copy of a decree issued by the Defendant Hess as Deputy of the Führer
dated 25 October 1934, which underwrites the authority of the Hoheitsträger
with respect to Party