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that we can hold it, but we have to
prepare for that. If once we have not enough sons, those who come
after us will have to become cowards. A nation which has an average of
four sons per family can venture a war; if two of them die, two
transmit the name. The leadership of a nation having one or two sons
per family will have to be fainthearted in any decision, on account of
their own experience, because they will have to tell themselves: We
cannot afford it. Look at France, which is the best example. France
had to have her line of action dictated by us."
Domination of Europe through a Nazi elite required more, however, than a
positive side of racism ...
THE TRIBUNAL (Mr. Biddle): Is that one of the crimes you allege,
domination of Europe through an elite?
MAJOR FARR: One of the crimes alleged is a conspiracy to dominate
Europe, preparation for aggressive war, leading to the ultimate
colonization of Europe for the benefit of the conspirators. One of the
instruments, we submit, used for carrying out that policy was the SS.
The conspirators began at the very beginning the creation of the SS, to
build it up so that it would be the elite through which Germany would be
able to dominate and rule the conquered territories.
We think that this conception of the SS has played a vital part in the
conspiracy. It has bearing on the whole program of the conspirators.
Now, this certainly, in itself ...
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, but, Major Farr, what you have to show is not the
criminality of the people who used the weapon but the criminality of the
people who composed the weapon.
MAJOR FARR: I think I have to show two things, certainly the
criminality of the persons who composed the weapons, but it seems to me
I must also show that that weapon played a part in the conspiracy
because the Indictment alleges ...
THE PRESIDENT: I should have thought you had shown that over and over
again, that the SS were a part of the weapon. If there was a criminal
conspiracy, then the SS were one of the weapons which were used by the
conspirators. But what you have got to show in this part of the case is
that the persons who formed that weapon were criminal and knew of the
criminal objects of the SS.
MAJOR FARR: I quite agree I have to show that. I suppose I have to
show, before showing that the persons involved knew of the criminal aims
of the organization, what those criminal aims were. I was simply
attempting to show the Tribunal that one of