“The idea of the Factory Troops is making good progress in the plants, and I am able to report to you, my Fuehrer, that security and peace in the factories has been guaranteed, not only in normal times, but also in times of the most serious crisis. Disturbances such as the munitions strikes of the traitors Ebert and confederates, are out of the question. National Socialism has conquered the factories. Factory Troops are the National Socialist shock troops within the factory, and their motto is: THE FUEHRER IS ALWAYS RIGHT.” (2283-PS)
LEGAL REFERENCES AND LIST OF DOCUMENTS RELATING TO DESTRUCTION OF THE FREE TRADE UNIONS AND ACQUISITION OF CONTROL OVER THE PRODUCTIVE LABOR CAPACITY
| Document | Description | Vol. | Page |
| Charter of the International Military Tribunal, Article 6, especially 6 (a). | I | 5 | |
| International Military Tribunal, Indictment Number 1, Section IV (D) 3 (c) (1). | I | 19 | |
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| Note: A single asterisk (*) before a document indicates that the document was received in evidence at the Nurnberg trial. A double asterisk (**) before a document number indicates that the document was referred to during the trial but was not formally received in evidence, for the reason given in parentheses following the description of the document. The USA series number, given in parentheses following the description of the document, is the official exhibit number assigned by the court. | |||
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| *392-PS | Official NSDAP circular entitled “The Social Life of New Germany with Special Consideration of the German Labor Front”, by Prof. Willy Mueller (Berlin, 1938). (USA 326) | III | 380 |
| *404-PS | Excerpts from Hitler, Mein Kampf, pp. 456, 475. (USA 256) | III | 385 |
| 405-PS | Law Concerning Trustees of Labor, 19 May 1933. 1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 285. | III | 387 |
| 614-PS | Proclamation of the Action Committee for the Protection of German Labor, 2 May 1933. Documents of German Politics, Vol. I, p. 151-3. | III | 447 |
| 1389-PS | Law creating Reich Labor Service, 26 June 1935. 1935 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 769. | III | 963 |
| *1678-PS | Speech of Dr. Robert Ley. Documents of German Politics, Vol. V, pp. 373, 376. (USA 365) | IV | 190 |
| 1770-PS | Law concerning factory representative councils and economic organizations, 4 April 1933. 1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 161. | IV | 343 |
| *1814-PS | The Organization of the NSDAP and its affiliated associations, from Organization book of the NSDAP, editions of 1936, 1938, 1940 and 1943, pp. 86-88. (USA 328) | IV | 411 |
| 1817-PS | Bureau for factory troops, from Organization Book of the NSDAP, 1936 edition, p. 211. | IV | 457 |
| 1818-PS | Bureau for Factory troops and training, from Organization Book of the NSDAP, 1940 edition, pp. 195-196b. | IV | 457 |
| 1861-PS | Law on the regulation of National labor, 20 January 1934. 1934 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 45. | IV | 497 |
| *1913-PS | Agreement between Plenipotentiary General for Arbeitseinsatz and German Labor Front concerning care of non-German workers. 1943 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 588. (USA 227) | IV | 547 |
| 1939-PS | Speech by Ley published in Forge of the Sword, with an introduction by Marshal Goering, pp. 14-17. | IV | 581 |
| 1940-PS | Fuehrer edict appointing Ley leader of German Labor Front. Voelkischer Beobachter, Munich (Southern German) edition, p. 1. | IV | 584 |
| 1947-PS | Letter from von Fritsch, 11 December 1938, concerning need of Germany to be victorious over working class, Catholic Church and Jews. | IV | 585 |
| 2005-PS | Second law integrating the “Laender” with the Reich, 7 April 1933. 1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 173. | IV | 641 |
| 2050-PS | The Constitution of the German Reich, 11 August 1919. 1919 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 1383. | IV | 662 |
| *2224-PS | The End of the Marxist Class Struggle, published in National Socialist Party Press Agency, 2 May 1933, pp. 1-2. (USA 364) | IV | 864 |
| 2225-PS | The Front of German Workers has been Erected, published in National Socialist Party Press Agency, 3 May 1933, p. 1. | IV | 868 |
| 2226-PS | The Labor Front Stands, published in National Socialist Party Press Agency, 4 May 1933, p. 2. | IV | 869 |
| 2228-PS | Order issued by German Labor Front, published in National Socialist Party Press Agency, 26 June 1933, p. 5. | IV | 869 |
| 2230-PS | Agreement between Ley and Lutze, chief of staff of SA, published in Organization Book of NSDAP, 1938, pp. 484-485b, 486c. | IV | 871 |
| 2270-PS | Coordination of Cooperatives, published in National Socialist Party Press Agency release of 16 May 1933. | IV | 938 |
| 2271-PS | The National Socialist Factory Cells Organization, published in Organization Book of NSDAP, pp. 185-187. | IV | 940 |
| 2275-PS | The German Labor Front, published in Nature-Aim-Means. Footnote on p. 11. | IV | 949 |
| 2276-PS | The German Labor Front, published in Nature-Aim-Means. p. 55. | IV | 950 |
| *2277-PS | Affidavit, 17 October 1945, of Gustav Schiefer, Chairman of General German Trade Union Association, Local Committee, Munich, in 1933. (USA 748) | IV | 951 |
| *2283-PS | The Fifth Day of the Party Congress, from Voelkischer Beobachter, Munich (Southern German) Edition, Issue 258, 14 September 1936. (USA 337) | IV | 971 |
| *2330-PS | Order of Protective Custody, Police Directorate of Nurnberg-Fuerth of Josef Simon, Chairman of German Shoemaker’s Union, 29 August 1935. (USA 237) | IV | 1038 |
| *2331-PS | Declaration required of union leader Josef Simon upon his release from Protective Custody by Bavarian Political Police, 20 December 1935. (USA 743) | IV | 1039 |
| 2332-PS | Death certificate, Flossenburg Concentration Camp, concerning union leader Staimer and official letter to his wife, 22 December 1941. | IV | 1040 |
| *2333-PS | Death certificate, Flossenburg Concentration Camp, concerning union leader Herrmann, and official letter to his wife, 29 December 1941. (USA 744) | IV | 1040 |
| *2334-PS | Affidavits of Lorenz Hagen, Chairman of Local Committee, German Trade Unions, Nurnberg. (USA 238) | IV | 1041 |
| *2335-PS | Affidavits of Josef Simon, Chairman of German Shoemakers’ Union in 1933. (USA 749) | IV | 1046 |
| 2336-PS | Special Circular on Securing of association of German Labor Front against hidden Marxist sabotage, 27 June 1933. | IV | 1052 |
| 2411-PS | Chart of unions of workers and employees, from Statistical Yearbook for German Reich, 1932, p. 555. | V | 87 |
| *2895-PS | Joint affidavit of union leaders Simon, Hagen, and Lex, 13 November 1945. (USA 754) | V | 563 |
| *2928-PS | Affidavit of Mathias Lex, deputy president of the German Shoemakers Union. (USA 239) | V | 594 |
| Statement XII | Political Testament of Robert Ley, written in Nurnberg prison, October 1945. | VIII | 742 |
| Statement XIII | Outline of Defense of Dr. Robert Ley, written in Nurnberg prison, 24 October 1945. | VIII | 749 |
6. SUPPRESSION OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES
A. The Nazi conspirators sought to subvert the influence of the churches over the people of Germany.
(1) They sought to eliminate the Christian Churches in Germany.
(a) Statements of this aim. Martin Bormann stated in a secret decree of the Party Chancellery signed by him and distributed to all Gauleiters 7 June 1941:
“Our National Socialist ideology is far loftier than the concepts of Christianity, which in their essential points have been taken over from Jewry * * *. A differentiation between the various Christian confessions is not to be made here * * * the Evangelical Church is just as inimical to us as the Catholic Church. * * * All influences which might impair or damage the leadership of the people exercised by the Fuehrer with the help of the NSDAP must be eliminated. More and more the people must be separated from the churches and their organs the pastors. * * * Just as the deleterious influences of astrologers, seers and other fakers are eliminated and suppressed by the State, so must the possibility of church influence also be totally removed. * * * Not until this has happened, does the state leadership have influence on the individual citizens. Not until then are the people and Reich secure in their existence for all time.” (D-75)
Hans Kerrl, Reich Minister for Church Affairs, in a letter dated 6 September 1939 to a Herr Stapel, which indicated that it would be brought to the attention of the Confidential Council and of the defendant Hess, made the following statements: