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every 8 to 14 days. Furthermore, the Gauleiter was
obligated to meet with the various Gauleaders subordinate to him once
every 3 months for a 3-day convention for the purpose of discussing and
clarifying Nazi Party policies and directives, for hearing basic
lectures on Party policy, and for the mutual exchange of information
pertinent to the Party's current program. The Gauleiter was also
obligated to meet at least once a month with the leaders of the Party
formations and affiliated organizations within his Gau area, such as the
leaders of the SA, and SS, Hitler Youth, and others. In support of these
statements, I quote from Page 8 of Document 1893-PS. I don't think it is
necessary to read all of that:
"Leader conferences in the district:
"A. District Leaders."
If Your Honor please, with your permission I will omit the reading of
that because it was really summarized in my previous statement. I will
quote Subparagraph (d):
"(d) The bearer of sovereignty will
meet at least once a month with the leaders of the SA, SS, NSKK, HJ,
as well as the RAD and the NSFK who are within the zone, for the
purpose of mutual collaboration."
The Organization Book of the Party imposes a similar requirement
of regular and periodical conferences and meetings upon all the other
Hoheitsträger, including the Kreisleiter, Ortsgruppenleiter,
Zellenleiter, and Blockleiter.
The clear consequence of such regular and obligatory conferences and
meetings by all the Hoheitsträger, both with their own staff
officers and with the political leaders and staff officers subordinate
to them, was that basic Nazi policies and directives issued by Hitler
and the leader of the Party Chancellery, the Defendant Bormann, directly
through the chain of command of the Hoheitsträger, and functional
policies issued by the various Reichsleiter and Reich officeholders down
functional and technical channels, were certain to be notified to,
received, and understood by the bulk of the membership of the Leadership
Corps.
If I may digress from my text and call attention to this chart, You
will see the dotted lines connecting down from the Party level, Gau
level, to similar offices in the lower level.
Now I next come to the statistics relating to the Leadership Corps of
the Nazi Party and the evidence relating to the size of the Leadership
Corps of the Nazi Party. As previously shown, the Leadership Corps
comprised the sum of officials of the Nazi Party including, in addition
to Hitler and the members of the Reichsleitung, such as the Reichsleiter
and the Reich officeholders, a hierarchy of Hoheitsträger, which I
have described, as well as the