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through the name Hess — "the
Plenipotentiary General for Reich Administration, Dr. Frick; the
Plenipotentiary General for Economy, Funk; the Reich Minister and
Chief of the Reich Chancellery, Dr. Lammers; and the Chief of the High
Command of the Armed Forces, Keitel, represented by Major General
Thomas."
These were the
regular members of the Council. Also present were the Reich Minister for
Food and Agriculture, Darré, and seven State Secretaries —
naming the secretaries. These State Secretaries were from the several
ministries or other supreme Reich authorities, as, for example, to name
a few: Körner was the Deputy of the Defendant Göring in the
Four Year Plan; Stuckart was in the Ministry of the Interior; Landfried
was in the Ministry of Economics; Syrup was in the Ministry of Labor.
These later positions appear on the government chart which is already in
evidence. Another meeting of the Council — I will skip that one.
And then there came the names of nine State Secretaries ...
THE TRIBUNAL (Mr. Biddle): Colonel Storey, the last document showed
only that certain members of the Cabinet came to a Cabinet meeting. Did
it show any more than that?
COL. STOREY: It shows no more than that. I was just going on a little
farther to show that an SS Gruppenführer was present also, and
other people were present.
THE TRIBUNAL (Mr. Biddle): What would that show?
COL. STOREY: In other words, that they called in these subordinate
people, as in the meeting of the ministers.
THE TRIBUNAL (Mr. Biddle): What would that show?
COL. STOREY: Well, it just shows the permeation of the Party and the
subordinate agencies, showing they could use the Reich Cabinet for
whatever purpose they wanted and to devise laws any way they wanted.
They called in these subordinate people, in these subordinate positions,
to sit with them when they were passing Cabinet measures. I can also
call Your Honors' attention to the Ministerial Council for Defense. It
was supposed to be a ministerial-rank Cabinet meeting; and as I just
started to show, they called in SS Gruppenführer Heydrich to this
meeting.
THE PRESIDENT: There can be no doubt, can there, that there was a Reich
Cabinet?
COL. STOREY: No, Sir.
THE PRESIDENT: And that the Reich Cabinet made decrees by this
circulatory method? There is no doubt about that.
COL. STOREY: That is right, Sir.
THE PRESIDENT: What does this document add to that?