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(4) The leadership of the Nazi Party.
(a) The Nazi Party leadership was the sole bearer of the
doctrines of the Nazi Party. The Party Organization Book
declares: "The Party as an instrument of ideological
education, must grow to be the Leader Corps (Fuehrer Korps)
of the German Nation.
"This Leader Corps is responsible for the complete
penetration of the German Nation with the National
Socialist spirit******" (1893-PS)
"The Party is the order of fuehrers. It is furthermore
responsible for the spiritual ideological National
Socialist direction of the German people." (1814-PS)
Referring to the mission of the Ortsgruppenleiter (local
chapter leader) of the NSDAP, the Party Organization Book
states:
"As Hoeheitstraeger (bearer of sovereignty) all
expressions of the party will emanate from him; he is
responsible for the political and ideological
leadership and organization within his zone of
sovereignty." (1893-PS)
Similar statements are made with regard to the Kreisleiter
(county leader) and the Gauleiter (Gau leader) and the Reich
Directorate (1893-PS).
(b The Nazi Party leadership was entitled to control and
dominate the German state and all related institutions and
all individuals therein. Hitler said at the 1935 Nurnberg
Party Congress:
"It is not the State which gives orders to us, it is we
who give orders to the State." (2775-PS)
Frick declared in a similar vein:
"In National Socialist Germany, leadership is in the
hands of an organized community, the National Socialist
Party; and as the latter represents the will of the
nation, the policy adopted by it in harmony with the
vital interests of the nation is at the same time the
policy adopted by the country. *********" (2771-PS)
Goebbels declared:
"The Party must always continue to represent the
hierarchy of National Socialist leadership. This
minority must always insist upon its prerogative to
control the state. *********It is responsible for the
leadership of the state and it solemnly relieves the
people of this responsibility." (2771-PS)
Hess remarked that the Party was a "necessity" in the German
State and constituted the cohesive mechanism with which to
"or-
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ganize and direct offensively and defensively the spiritual
and political strength of the people." (2426-PS)
Nazi interpreters of constitutional law expressed the same
idea:
"The NSDAP is not a structure which stands under direct
state control, to which single tasks of public
administration are entrusted by the state, but it holds
and maintains its claim to totality as the 'bearer of
the German state-idea' in all fields relating to the
community -- regardless of how various single functions
are divided between the organization of the Party and
the organization of the State." (2771-PS)
This doctrine was incorporated into laws which established
the NSDAP as "the only political party in Germany" and
declared the NSDAP "The bearer of the German state idea" and
"indissolubly linked to the state." (1388-A-PS; 195-PS)
(c) The Nazi Party leadership was entitled to destroy all
opponents. Reference is made generally to Sections 2 and 3
on the Acquisition and Consolidation of Political Control of
Germany for proof of this allegation.
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Means Used by the Nazi Conspiractors in Gaining Control of the German State
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