19 Dec. 45
Now, the date of this is 1943. We again find the SA
employed to inculcate a particular Nazi ideology into the minds of the
people of Germany. At this point it was the function of the SA to
prepare Germany mentally for the waging of a vicious and aggressive war.
At all times, and especially during the period from 1933 to 1939, SA
leaders emphasized to SA members the duty and responsibility of creating
and fostering a militaristic spirit throughout Germany. In 1933 Hitler
established the so-called SA sports program; and at that time, according
to Sturmführer Bayer, in his pamphlet which I have previously
introduced in evidence as 2168-PS — on Page 6 of the English
translation — it is just one sentence, and I quote:
" ... commissioned to increase and to
preserve the warlike power and the fighting spirit as the expression
of the soldier-like attitude of a people."
In 1937 Hitler renewed the so-called sports program and, as recited in
Document 3050-PS, which is the English translation of these newspaper
articles, on Page 12, he made a statement "for the fostering of a
military spirit."
The Organization Book of the Party is to the same effect, in
Document 3220-PS, which is Exhibit Number USA-323. I quote from a
portion of that document — Paragraphs 1 to 3 on Page I of the
English translation, beginning at the first paragraph:
"While the political organization of
the NSDAP has to carry out the political leadership, the SA is the
training and education instrument of the Party for the realization of
an ideologically soldier-like attitude.
"In conformity with the directives of the Führer given at
the Reich Party meeting of freedom, the SA is, as the voluntary
political soldiery, the guarantor of the National Socialist movement,
of the National Socialist revolution, and of the resurgence of the
German people.
"Consequently, the young German in the SA is being inculcated in
the first instance from the standpoint of ideology and character, and
trained as the bearer of the National Socialist ideas.
"Equally significant is a suitable education and training which
the SA members have accomplished within the yearly classes which have
completed their military service. This prevails until the age they and
all their spiritual, mental, and physical powers are ready for use in
maintaining the Movement, the people, and the State. They should find
their best home in the SA. All that which could divide them
economically, culturally, professionally, or because of origin