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to accord with the offices and regions controlled by the
Hoheitsträger. If I might be more explicit, let us take the SA. The
subsidiary formations of the SA came down and corresponded, in its lower
organizations, to the Gau, so that we have a Gauleitung in the SA, and
further down, to the Kreis, so that we have a Kreisleitung in the SA, so
that the Gauleiter and the Kreisleiter, to cite two examples, charged
with a particular duty by the Führer, could call on these
organizations for assistance in carrying out their tasks.
These
sinister implications of the use of this power will become more apparent
as the Prosecution's case develops, and as the wealth of evidentiary
material is introduced into evidence to prove the criminality of the
defendant organizations.
The component Party-organizations,
called "Gliederungen" within the Party, are shown at the
extreme left of the chart, and are the organizations to which I directed
the attention of Your Honors a moment ago. These organizations actually
constitute the Party itself, and substantially the entire
Party-membership is contained within these organizations. The four
principal organizations are sometimes referred to as "pare-military"
organizations. They were uniformed organizations and they were armed.
These organizations were the notorious SA and SS, which are named as
party-defendants in this case, the HJ (Hitler Youth), and the NSKK- the
Motor Corps of the Party (Kraftfahrkorps). Then there were also the
National Socialist Women's Organization, the National Socialist German
Students' Bund (Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund), and
the National Socialist University Teachers' Organization
(Nationalsozialistischer Dozentenbund).
There are additional
organizations that were officially designated within the Party, as
affiliated organizations, not Gliederungen or controlled organizations,
but affiliated organizations (Angeschlossene Verbände der NSDAP).
Among those organizations we have the German Labor Front (Deutsche
Arbeitsfront)--the DAF; we have an organization that controlled the
civil service (Reichsbund der Deutschen Beamten). There were the
physicians within the National Socialist Deutscher Ärztebund; there
were the teachers in the National Socialist Lehrerbund; there were the
lawyers within the National Socialist Rechtswahrerbund, of which, at one
time, the Defendant Frank was the head.
There is another group
of organizations which was officially known as supervised organizations
(Betreute Organisationen der NSDAP), organizations that included certain
specialized women's organizations (Deutsches Frauenwerk), certain
student societies (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Studentenschaft),
former university students (Altherrenbund der Deutschen Studenten).
There was a
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