Hitler declared to the Reichstag on 20 February 1938:
“Only now we have succeeded in setting before us the great tasks and in possessing the material things which are the prerequisites for the realization of great creative plans in all fields of our national existence. Thus, National Socialism has made up within a few years for what centuries before it had omitted. * * *
“National Socialism has given the German people that leadership which as party not only mobilizes the nation but also organizes it, so that on the basis of the natural principle of selection, the continuance of a stable political leadership is safeguarded forever * * * National Socialism * * * possesses Germany entirely and completely since the day when, five years ago, I left the house in Wilhelmplatz as Reich Chancellor. There is no institution in this state which is not National Socialist. Above all, however, the National Socialist Party in these five years not only has made the nation National Socialist, but also has given itself that perfect organizational structure which guarantees its permanence for all future. The greatest guarantee of the National Socialist revolution lies in the complete domination of the Reich and all its institutions and organizations, internally and externally, by the National Socialist Party. Its protection against the world abroad, however, lies in its new National Socialist armed forces. * * *
“In this Reich, anybody who has a responsible position is a National Socialist. * * * Every institution of this Reich is under the orders of the supreme political leadership. * * * The party leads the Reich politically, the armed forces defend it militarily. * * * There is nobody in any responsible position in this state who doubts that I am the authorized leader of this Reich.” (2715-PS)
LEGAL REFERENCES AND LIST OF DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MILITARIZATION OF NAZI ORGANIZATIONS
| 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 (f). | I | 21 | |
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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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| *407-VIII-PS | Telegram from Sauckel to Hitler, 17 May 1943, concerning foreign labor. (USA 210) | III | 394 |
| 2320-B-PS | Extracts from Organization Book of NSDAP, 1940, p. 394. | IV | 1026 |
| *2715-PS | Speech by Hitler to the Reichstag on 20 February 1938, published in The Archive, February 1938, Vol. 47, pp. 1441-1442. (USA 331). | V | 376 |
| 2804-PS | Extracts from “Das NSKK” by Hans Helmut Krenzlein, NSKK Gruppenfuehrer, with foreword by Leader of NSKK, Korpsfuehrer A. Huehnlein. | V | 446 |
| 2805-PS | Extract from Organization Book of NSDAP, 1943, p. 465. | V | 447 |
| 2806-PS | Extract from Leadership and Education, official magazine of Dutch Labor Service, 1 June 1943, p. 19. | V | 448 |
| 2807-PS | Letter by Goering to Reich Labor Service Leader Konstantin Hierl, published by National Socialist Monthly, 1940, Vol. I, p. 155. | V | 448 |
| 2808-PS | Men of the OT, published by Photographic Office of Reich Propaganda Office. | V | 448 |
| 2809-PS | Extract from National Socialist Monthly, February-March, 1942, p. 167. | V | 449 |
| 2810-PS | Extract from Germany in Battle, by Berndt of Reich Propaganda Ministry and von Wedel of German Army High Command, 1940, p. 107. | V | 449 |
| 2811-PS | Extracts from Organization Book of the NSDAP, 1938, pp. 470, 470(c). | V | 450 |
| 2812-PS | Directive from German Army High Command, published in General Army Bulletin, 1940, Vol. VII, p. 96. | V | 450 |
| 2813-PS | Extract from The National Socialist Air Corps, p. 14. | V | 451 |
| *3054-PS | “The Nazi Plan”, script of a motion picture composed of captured German film. (USA 167) | V | 801 |
Chapter VIII
ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF THE CONSPIRACY
It is well known that the Nazi conspirators rearmed Germany on a vast scale. The purpose of that rearmament is revealed in the secret records of the plans and deliberations of the inner councils of the Nazis. These records show that the reorganization of the German government, the financial wizardry of Hjalmar Schacht, and the total mobilization of the German economy largely under Hjalmar Schacht, Hermann Goering, and Walter Funk, were directed at a single goal: aggressive war.