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the very day the Nazi conspirators seized and dissolved
the free trade unions, the 2d of May 1933, they publicly proclaimed that
a "United Front of German Workers" would be formed with Hitler
as honorary patron at a workers' congress on the 10th of May 1933. I
quote from the next to the last paragraph of Page 2 of Document 2224-PS,
which was a release of the Nazi Party Press Agency:
"The National Socialist Party Press
Agency is informed that a great Workers' Congress will take place on
Wednesday, 10 May, in the Prussian House of Lords in Berlin. The
United Front of German Workers will be formed there. Adolf Hitler will
be asked to assume the position of honorary patron."
The Nazi conspirators employed the German Labor Front, the I DAF, as an
instrument for propagandizing its millions of compulsory members with
Nazi ideology. The control of the Leadership Corps over the German Labor
Front was assured not only by the designation of Reichsleiter of the
Party Organization Ley as head of the DAF, but by the employment of a
large number of Politische Leiter, or political leaders, charged with
disseminating and imposing Nazi ideology upon the large membership of
the DAF. I now cite Document 2271-PS, Exhibit Number USA-328, which is
the Party Organization Book referred to yesterday, Pages
185-187; and I quote from the first page of the English translation, the
first paragraph:
"The NSBO is a union of the political
leaders of the NSDAP in the German Labor Front.
"The NSBO is to undertake the organization of the German Labor
Front.
"The duties and responsibilities of the NSBO have passed over to
the German Labor Front.
"The political leaders who have been transferred from the NSBO
to the German Labor Front guarantee the ideological education of the
DAF in the spirit of the National Socialistic idea."
Now, if Your Honors please, in addition to the evidence heretofore
presented, the Prosecution submits that it is another evidence of crime
that the Leadership Corps of the NSDAP was responsible for the
plundering of art treasures by the Defendant Reichsleiter Rosenberg's "Einsatzstab
Rosenberg." The definition of "Einsatzstab" is a "special
staff," and I am told that the word "Einsatz" means "to
give action to." In other words, it was a task force, a special
staff.
This subject, diverting from the text, had been prepared in connection
with the general subject of "Plundering of Art Treasures"; and
I shall now turn to the document books of the "Plundering of Art
Treasures," because the citations now will be in this small book.
I now pass to Your Honors Document Book W; and, may I say, diverting
from the. text, that the trial address, which is very brief,