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in the complete domination of the Reich
and all of its institutions and organizations, internally and
externally, by the National Socialist Party. Its protection against
the world abroad, however, lies in the new National Socialist Armed
Forces .... In this Reich anybody who has a responsible position is a
National Socialist .... Every institution of this Reich is under the
command of the supreme political leadership .... The Party leads the
Reich politically; the Armed Forces defend it militarily .... There is
nobody in any responsible position in this state who doubts that I am
the authorized leader of this Reich. . . . "
The supreme power which the Leadership Corps exercised over the German
State and Government is pointed out by an article published in this same
authoritative magazine Der Hoheitsträger, in February 1939.
In this article, which was addressed to all Hoheitsträger, the
Leadership Corps is reminded that it has conquered the state and
possesses absolute and total power in Germany. I cite Document 3230-PS,
which is the English translation of an article entitled "Fight and
Order"; and I quote from this article, which trumpets forth in what
we might term as accents of Caesarism, the battle call of the Leadership
Corps in German life. I quote:
"Fight? Why do you always talk of
fighting? You have conquered the state, and if something does not
please you, then just make a law and regulate it differently. Why must
you always talk of fighting? For you have every power. Over what do
you fight? Foreign politics? You have the Wehrmacht — it will
wage the fight if fight is required. Domestic politics? You have the
law and the police which can change everything which does not agree
with you."
THE PRESIDENT: Is
this a good time to break off?
COL. STOREY: Yes, Sir.
[A recess was taken.]
COL. STOREY: In view of the domination of the German State and
Government by the Nazi Party and the Leadership Corps thereof as
established by the foregoing and other evidence hereto-fore recited in
the previous trial briefs, it is submitted that the Leadership Corps of
the Nazi Party is responsible for the measures, including the
legislative enactments, taken by the German State and Government in
furtherance of the conspiracy formulated and carried out by the
co-conspirators and the organizations charged with criminality in the
present case.
I now skip and go to the overt acts and crimes of the Leadership Corps.
The evidence now to be presented will establish that the