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It is true that this figure is based upon an admittedly
limited view of the size of the membership of the Leadership Corps of
the Nazi Party, for the evidence has shown that the Leadership Corps, in
effect, embraced staff officers attached to the subordinate Hoheitsträger;
and the inclusion of such staff officers in the estimation of the size
of the Leadership Corps, if we had so recommended, would have been
considerably enlarged so that the final figure, if we had included staff
officers to the Blockleiter, would have been 2,000,000, in round
numbers.
MR. FRANCIS BIDDLE (Member for the United States): What reason is there
for excluding them?
COL. STOREY: For this reason, Your Honor, a person on the last level of
Blockleiter might have called on an individual laborer who might have
been on his staff; but he certainly did not have the discretion that a
staff leader did, for example, or the Gauleiter, say, as a propaganda
man who disseminated information down as well as helped participate in
plans and policies of the upper organization.
The subordinate staff officers thus excluded were responsible
functionally -to the higher staff officers with respect to their
particular specialty, such as propaganda, Party organization, and so on,
and to their respective Hoheitsträger with respect to discipline
and policy control and, as I mentioned, likewise such higher staff
officers participated in planning and policy and passed those policies
down through technical levels or technical channels as opposed to
command channels.
"The Leadership Corps of the Nazi Party joined and participated in
the Common Plan or Conspiracy" is the next title.
The program of the Nazi Party, proclaimed by Hitler on 24 February
1920, contained the chief elements of the Nazi plan for domination and
conquest. I now quote from Document 1708-PS, which is the Year Book
for 1941, published by the Party, and edited by the late Robert Ley.
This book contains the famous 25 points of the Party which I now offer
in evidence as Exhibit Number USA-324. Diverting from the text — I
don't intend to quote these 25 Party objectives, but only refer to a few
of them, and I quote from Page 1 of the English translation of Document
1708-PS:
Point 1:
"We demand the unification of all
Germans in Greater Germany on the basis of the right of
self-determination of peoples."
Point 2 of that program which I quote demanded unilateral abolition of
the Peace Treaties of Versailles and St. Germain: