The nazification campaign was carried out also by the creation of groups with the same end in view. I have already said that the most important of these groups was the Volksdeutsche Bewegung and I shall merely supplement this by citing a sentence from the Luxembourg report, namely:
“Membership in the Volksdeutsche Bewegung was the condition sine qua non on which civil servants were allowed to keep their positions, private employees their positions, professional people—such as lawyers, doctors, et cetera—to exercise their profession, industrialists to run their factories, and everybody to earn his livelihood. Failure to comply meant dismissal, expulsion from the country, and the deportation of whole families.”
The penalties imposed on the Luxembourgers who refused these solicitations were accompanied by a formula which shows very well the Nazi mentality and which I shall read to the Tribunal from the text of the government report. It is a very short quotation.
“Because of their attitude these persons do not offer the guarantee that they will fulfill, in an exemplary manner at all times and without any reservation, during and outside their professional activity, the duties which have their foundation in the establishment of the civil administration in Luxembourg and in the pro-German attitude.”
The Nazis also sought to develop in Luxembourg the SA formation.
THE PRESIDENT: Have we got this report? Has this governmental report been deposited?
M. FAURE: The report of the Luxembourg Government was submitted to the Tribunal by my colleague, M. Dubost.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you.
M. FAURE: As I am making only very short quotations from it I did not put it in my document book.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, M. Faure, it would help me if you would give me the page of the dossier, when you are citing a document which is not in the document book.