THE PRESIDENT: Yes.
MR. JONES: I was seeking to draw the Tribunal's attention to document D-658, at page 109, Exhibit GB-229.
It reads:
"The Naval Commander, West France, reports that during the and water for several days were found.
Attempts to salvage the canoe were unsuccessful.
The Naval Commander, West France, has ordered discovered; their execution has, however, been postponed in order "According to a Wehrmacht report, both soldiers have meanwhile been shot.
The measure would be in accordance with the Fuehrer's law, since the soldiers were in uniform."
principle or of professional honor and integrity. This operation Prosecution's case against the Defendant Raeder.
The Prosecution's submission is that he was not just a military puppet carrying out political orders.
The Tribunal has seen that Navy behind the back of the Reichstag.
When the Nazis seized power, he unreservedly joined forces with them.
He was the prime as any other Defendant.
He accepted membership of their main a mendacious politician.
And he furthered, as I have submitted, their brutal methods of warfare.
And yet of all these conspirators Raeder was one of the first to fall from his high position.
It is Poland came as a disappointment to him.
His vision of a Nazi Armada mastering the Atlantic reckoned without Ribbentrop's diplomacy and Hitler's ideas of strategy.
I would draw the Tribunal's attention to document C-161, at retirement, entitled, "The Importance of German Surface Forces for the War by the powers signatory to the Three Power Pact."
The material entry reads:
"It was planned by the leaders of the National Socialist Reich to give the German Navy by 1944/45 such a strength that it "In 1939, the war having begun five years earlier, the construction of these forces was still in its initial stages."
high seas fleet would be required. The Tribunal has seen that his attack on an inoffensive Norway.
He made many efforts to of the customs and laws of the sea.
But his further schemes, I invite the Court's attention to the document D-655, at in Raeder's handwriting of his interview with Hitler on the 6th of January, 1943, which led to Raeder's retirement.
I am merely proposing to read the fifth paragraph, in which Raeder records:
"If the Fuehrer was anxious to demonstrate that the parting But a new C. in C. Navy with full responsibility for this office must be appointed.
The position of General Inspector, or whatever it was decided to call it, must be purely nominal."
"Hitler," the report reads, "accepted this suggestion with alacrity.
The General Inspector could perhaps carry out special tasks for him, make tours of inspection, etc.
The name of Raeder was still to be associated with the Navy.
After C. in C. Navy January as his release date.
He would like to think over the details."
This was Raeder's twilight, and indeed a very different Day.
I now refer the Court to the final document on Raeder, an the document book, in the document D-653, Exhibit GB-232.
The first paragraph reads:
"Throughout Germany solemnities took place on the occasion of Hero Commemoration Day.
On March 12, 1939, these solemnities were rearm.
The day's chief event was the ceremony held in the Berlin State Opera House in Unter den Linden.
In the presence of Hitler Raeder made a speech, extracts of which are given below."
"National Socialism," says Raeder, "which originates from the German people as its ideology.
The German people follow the symbols also enables to make use of all the Nation's creative powers."
"This is the reason for the clear and unsparing summons to their strength, dedicated to construction and peaceful work at home to be disrupted by alien ideologies as by parasites of a foreign race."
Then a few sentences on:
"If later on we instruct in the technical handling of weapons, this task demands that the young soldier should also be taught National Socialist ideology and the problems of life. This part of the task, which becomes for us both a duty of honor and a demand which cannot be refused, can and will be carried out if we stand shoulder to shoulder and in sincere comradeship to the Party and its organization."
The next sentence:
"The armed forces and the Party thus became more and more united in attitude and spirit."
And then just two sentences on the next page:
"Germany is the protectors of all Germans within and beyond our frontiers. The shots fired at Almeria are proof of that." Almeria, carried out by a German naval squadron on the 31 May 1937 during the course of the Spanish Civil War. then a final sentence of the first paragraph of page 3:
"They all planted into a younger generation great tradition of death for a holy cause, knowing that their blood will lead the way towards the freedom of their dreams."
My submissions is that that speech of Raeder's is the final proof of his deep personal involvement in the Nazi conspiracy. There is the mixture of heroics and fatalism that led millions of Germans to slaughter. There are boasts of violence used on the people of Almeria. There is the lip service to peace by a man who planned conquest. "Armed forces and party have become more and more united in attitude and spirit" there is the authentic Nazi voice. There is the assertion of racialism. Finally, there is the anti-Semitic gesture, Raeder's contribution to the outlook that produced Belsen. Imbued with these ideas became an active participant on both the political and military level in the Nazi conspiracy to was wars of aggression and to wage them ruthlessly.
MR. ALBRECHT: May it please the Tribunal, the United States will continue with the presentation, showing the individual responsibility of the defendant von Schirach. It will be made by Captain Sprecher.
CAPTAIN SPRECHER: May it please the Tribunal, It is my responsibility to present the individual responsibility of the defendant Schirach for crimes against the peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity as they concern directly the common plan or conspiracy. having exercised a leading part in the Nazi conspiracy from 1925 until the Nazi downfall. Schirach may be grouped for purposes of convenience into three principal phases: (1) his early support of the conspirators over the period 19251929: (2) his leadership and direction of German youth over the period 1929-1945; (3) his leadership of the Reichgau Vienna as chief representative of the Nazi Party and the Nazi State in Vienna for the period July 1940 to 1945. This presentation will take up each of these principal phases after a brief listing of all the principal positions held by Schirach in both the Nazi Party and the Nazi State between 1928 and 1945. it is not intended immediately to describe the functions of each of these positions. Insofar as a description of the functions of any particular position is still felt necessary at this stage of the trial, it will be given later during the discussion of Schirach's conspiratorial acts as Nazi youth leader and as Nazi official in Vienna.
(DOCUMENTATION) this subject. The Document Book contains English translations of 29 documents. Although we feel that we have reduced the number of documents to the minimum, the document book is still large. But Schirach's subversion of German youth to the conspirators' purposes, even apart from his other acts, is indeed a large and important aspect of the conspiracy.
Most of these documents are from German publications, of which the Tribunal can take judicial notice. Therefore, in most cases, it is intended only to paraphrase from these documents unless the Tribunal requests fuller treatment in a particular instance. should be relatively short, even though Schirach's name has not thus far entered the earlier record as frequently as that of some other defendants. particularly to Major Hartley Murray, Lt. Fred Niebergall, and Mr. Norbert Heilpern for their assistance in research, analysis, translation, and organization of these materials.
Schirach agrees he held the following positions: They are found in two affidavits, and one affidavit of report dated December, 1945, which is Document 3302-PS, document book, page 110.
I want to offer that affidavit as USA Exhibit 665. The certificate, which I will only rely on for one point, is Document 2973-PS. It is already in evidence as. USA Exhibit 14.
Turning first to Document 3302-PS: This affidavit shows that Schirach was a member of the Party from 1925 to 1945; that he was a leader of the National Socialist Student League from 1929 to 1931; that he was leader of the Hitler Youth Organization from 1931 to 1940. In 1931 and 1932 Schirach was Reich Youth Leader on the staff of the SA Supreme Command, where at that time all Nazi youth organizations were centralized. Also, Schirach was Reich Youth Leader of the NSDAP from 1931 to 1940.
In 1932 Schirach became an independent Reich Leader (Reichsleiter) in the Party. Upon acquiring this relatively independent position, he no longer remained on the staff of the SA Supreme Command, since Nazi youth affairs thereafter, with the creation of the Reich Youth leadership, were directly subordinate to Hitler with Schirach at the helm. We had that kind of a condition existing in the Party where, under the leadership principle, at the pinnacle you had one man, Schirach, and you no longer had the youth affairs underneath the SA. However, within the SA, Schirach retained the rank and the title of a Gruppenfuehrer throughout the period from 1931 to 1941, and in that year, 1941, he was elevated to the rank of an SA Obergruppenfuehrer, a rank which Schirach continued to hold in the SA until the collapse. until the collapse. In other words, from before the Nasiz came to state power until the final downfall, this Defendant held the high position of a Reichsleiter, a Reich Leader, inside the Party. following positions in the Nazi state:
Reich Youth Leader, 1933 to 1940; Reich Governor (Reichsstatthalter) of the Reichsgau Vienna, 1940 to 1945 Reich Defense Commissioners of Vienna, 1940 to 1945.
the leadership of German youth in 1940, when he accepted these positions in Vienna, he still continued to hold after that time the Party position of Reich Leader for Youth Education in the NSDAP. Moreover, he was given a very special position Deputy to the Fuehrer for the Inspection of the Hitler Youth, the organization which he, of course, had held until 1940. He continued in these last two positions until the downfall. particular presentation is to show that Schirach was a member of the Reichstag from 1932 to 1945.
THE PRESIDENT: Captain Sprecher, you are going a little bit too fast for us to follow the documents.
CAPT. SPRECHER: Yes, sir. We next take up acts showing that Schirach actively promoted the NSDAP and its affiliated youth organizations before the Nazis seized power. Schirach was an intimate and a servile follower of Hitler from the year 1925. In that year, when he was only 18 years old, Schirach joined the Nazi conspirators by becoming a member of the Party. Upon special request of Hitler, he went to Munich to study Party affairs. He became active in converting students to National Socialism. I am paraphrasing there, your Honors, from par. 2 of Schirach's own affidavit, 3302-PS, found at page 110 of the Document Book. thereafter continued for two decades in a spirit of unbending loyalty to Hitler and to the principles of National Socialism. Hitler's early personal attentions to this Defendant bore fruit for the conspirators, and we find Schirach's stature in the Party circles rapidly growing through these early years. German Students League. He retained this position for two years, until 1931. Document 3464-PS, Document Book, page 121, is an extract from the 1936 Edition of the Party Manual, US Exhibit 666, which I would like to offer in evidence. This makes it clear that the purposes of the Nazi Students League were the ideological and political conversion of students in universities and technical schools to National Socialism.
After 1931 Schirach devoted his full time to Party work. Schirach was elected a Nazi member of the Reichstag. In 1932, and therefore he played his part in the unparliamentary conduct of the Nazi Reichstag members during the last months of the existence of the Reichstag as an independent instrument of government.
Some of the best evidence concerning Schirach's support of the conspiracy in its early stages comes from Schirach's own words in his book "The Hitler Youth," Excerpts from this book are found in Document No.1458-PS, Document Book page 1. It is offered in evidence as USA Exhibit 667. Now, since this book, your Honors , covers many years and many topics, I shall be required to refer to it occasionally later on.
An example of Schirach's servile loyalty to Hitler during the early years is found at page 17 of this book, page 12 of your Document Book. He writes of his early years of Party activity as follows:
"We were not yet able to account for our conception in detail. We simply believed. And when Hitler's book, 'Mein Kampf', was published, it was our bible, which we almost learned by heart in order to answer the questions of the doubters and superior critics. Almost everyone today who is leading youth in a responsible position joined us in those years." summoning German youth to membership in the Hitler Youth. When the Hitler Youth and the waring of its uniform were forbidden by law, Schirach continued his activities by illegal means. Of this period he himself writes, at page 26 of his book on "The Hitler Youth", pages 16 and 17 of your Document, Book, as follows :
#At this time the HJ (the Hitler Jugend) gained its best human material. Whoever came to us daring this illegal time, boy or girl, risked everything.
With pistols in our pockets we drove through the Ruhr district while stones came flying after us. We jumped every time we heard a bell ring, because we lived in constant fear of arrests and expected our houses to be searched."
At page 27 of the same book, page 18 of your Honors' Document Books, Schirach indicates that in the early intra-Party fight between Hitler and Strasser, Schirach clung steadfastly to the Hitler clique, and then, in discussing Strasser, he exchanged his confidences only with the Defendant Streicher. It is hardly necessary to argue that such an intimate of the Fuehrer himself was advised from the beginning of the general purposes, plans, and methods of the conspiracy. note, took place in Schirach's apartment in Munich, and that Hitler used to come there occasionally. youth organizations and in building the Nazi youth movement. In connection with this point, the attention of the Tribunal is invited to the brief of the United States Chief of Counsel entitled "The Reshaping of Education: Training of Youth", which was written for the United States Chief of Counsel by Major Hartley Murray, and to the documents cited therein under the section headed "b". "The Nazi conspirators Supplemented the School System by Training Youth through the Hitler Jugend." These documents were offered in evidence in Document Book "D" in the earlier phase of this trial. The attention of the Tribunal is also called to the motion picture "The Nazi Plan", which was shown before the Tribunal on the 11th of December, insofar as that film involved the Defendant Schirach and his Hitler Youth organization. Occasions when Schirach's activities are shown in this film are noted in Document No.3054-PS, the index and the guide to this film, which is already in evidence as US Exhibit 167. generations by poisoning the minds of youth with Nazi ideology and preparing youth for aggressive war. This poisoning will long outlive the defendant. Indeed, one of the principal purposes of this exposure must be to bring to those German youths who survived the Nazi-created catastrophe a true picture of this man whom Nazi propaganda presented as a great youth hero; a man against whom the living breath of free criticism and the truth itself could make no answer before German youth or before the German people for more than ten years.
Again from Schirach's own hand in his book, "The Hitler Youth", we have crystal-clear evidence concerning the methods and the tactics employed by this defendant in his destruction of independent youth organizations and their incorporation into the Hitler Youth. At page thirty-two, pages nineteen and twenty of Your Honors' document books, Schirach states that in 1933 the new cabinet ministers were too over-burdened to solve the youth question by their own initiative; that therefore he, Schirach, then leader ofthe Hitler Youth, commissioned confederates to lead fifty members of the Berlin Hitler Youth in a surprise raid on the Reich Committee of German Youth Organizations. This raid resulted in destroying the Reich Committee, and in its absorption within the Hitler Youth. This raid was closely followed by a second surprise raid of like success upon the Youth Hostels Organization, page thirty-three "The Hitler Youth", found at pages twenty and twenty-one of the document book.
Now, after these successful showings of force and terror Schirach's star climbed higher. He was appointed youth leader of the German Reich in June 1933 in a solemn ceremony before Hitler. Concerning his next steps, Schirach writes at pages thirty-five and thirty-six of his book, page twenty-two of the document book, as follows:
"The first thing I did was to dissolve the Greater German League. Since I headed all German youth organizations and I had the right to decide on their leadership, I did not hesitate for a moment to take this step which was for the Hitler Youth the elimination of un unbearable state of affairs." organizations by orders which he issued and signed as youth leader of the German Reich. This is shown by the orders contained in Document No. 2229-BS, your document book, page sixty-five, which is offered in evidence as U.S. Exhibit 66.
THE PRESIDENT: You must go more slowly; the translation isn't coming through as quickly. If you could pause at the end of those sentences in order to let the translation come through.
CAPTAIN SPRECHER: Yes, sir. including the Boy Scout movement. destroyed and absorbed by the Hitler Youth. Schirach accomplished the absorption of the Protestant youth organization by agreement with the Hitlerappointed Reich Bishop Ludwig Mueller, page thirty-eight of "The Hitler Youth", page twenty-four of the document book. Schirach's objective in forcing all German youth into the Hitler Youth was finally accomplished in December 1936 by the basic law on the Hitler Youth.
document No. 1392-PS is a decree, 1936, Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, page 993, of which, of course, the Tribunal may take judicial notice. This law declared in part, and Your Honors, I read from this because it shows so clearly the future tasks of what was to happen and what was already happening in German youth under Schirach.
THE PRESIDENT: Is it set out in the document book?
CAPTAIN SPRECHER: Yes, sir.
THE PRESIDENT: What page?
CAPTAIN SPRECHER: It is Document No. 1392-PS. It is at page six of your document book.
"The future of the German nation depends on its youth, and German youth shall have to be prepared for its future duties. All of the German Youth in the Reich is organized within the Hitler Youth. The German youth, besides being reared within the family and school, shall be educated physically, intellectually, and morally in the spirit of National Socialism to serve the people and the community through the Hitler Youth. The task of educating the German youth through the Hitler Youth is being entrusted to the Reich Leader of German Youth in the NSDAP." Youth was issued on the 25th of March 1939. If you refer to page forty of your Document Books --. This decree, 1939, Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, page 709, among other points confirms the exclusive nature of Schirach's responsibility concerning German youth. I will quote only one sentence.
"The Youth Leader of the German Reich is solely competent for all missions of the physical, ideological, and moral education of the entire German youth outside of the house of the parents and the school."
THE PRESIDENT: Captain Sprecher, I think you have told us enough now to satisfy us that von Schirach was in charge of the ideological education of German youth and completely in charge of it.
CAPTAIN SPRECHER: Yes, sir.
THE PRESIDENT: And we don't desire to hear any more of it.
CAPTAIN SPRECHER: I understand.
naturally relied on the common technics of the Nazi conspirators, including the leadership principle, the nature of which has already been established before this Tribunal. The Tribunal will find a galling glorification and explanation of the leadership principle as it was applied to German youth in Schirach's book, "The Hitler Youth", at page sixty-eight, translated at page thirty-two of the document book. I won't read from that.
In his affidavit, document No. 3302-PS, paragraph five, Schirach states:
"It was my task to educate the youth in the aims, ideology, and directives of the NSDAP, and beyond this to direct and to shape them." apparatus to accomplish a thorough-going poisoning of the minds of German youth. Document No. 3349-PS, your Document Book page 149, offered in evidence as U.S. Exhibit 666.
THE PRESIDENT: Page 149?
CAPTAIN SPRECHER: Yes, sir.
THE PRESIDENT: I have only got page 124.
CAPTAIN SPRECHER: I am sorry; it is 114. It is a typographical error. the Party Manual. This document will show that the Reich Youth leadership, Reichsjungendfuehrung, of the NSDAP, prepared and published numerous periodicals ranging from a daily press to monthly magazine. This document also shows that the propaganda office of the Hitler Youth maintained through liaison agents a political and ideological connection, with a propaganda office of the NSDAP and with the Propaganda Ministry, both of which of course were headed by the conspirator Goebbels.
Schirach shares with the conspirator Dr. Robert Ley, Reichs organizationsleiter of the NSDAP, the responsibility for the establishment and general administration of the Adolf Hitler Schools. This is shown by a joint statement of Ley and Schirach in the year 1937, which is found in the Document Book at page 100.
It is our document 2653-PS, offered in evidence as U.S.A. Exhibit 669. This document shows that these Adolf Hitler Schools were open free of charge to outstanding and proven members of the Young Folk, the junior section of the Hitler Youth organization. It further shows that the object of these schools was the building of youthful leadership for the Nazi Party and the Nazi State apparatus. law and the legal profession even though these fields were principally under the control of the Defendant Frank. Proof is found in document No. 3459-PS, page 120 of the document book. This is a one-page extract from an account of the Congress of German Law in 1939. It is offered as U.S. Exhibit 670. This document shows that beyond purely technical education in law it was considered by the conspirators to be the task of the Party to exorcise influence upon the ideological conceptions of the Young Law Guardians League. This league was a junior organization of the National Socialist Law Guardians League, a Nazi-controlled organization of lawyers.
Youth Law Guardians required that ignorance of the simplest legal principles could best be fought within the Hitler Youth and that therefore the legal eduction program of the Hitler Youth was to receive the broadest support. and who in 19140 was to succeed him as leader of the Hitler Youth, was at that time -- namely, May, 1939 -- appointed the chairman of a Youth Legal Committee for the establishment of the Youth Law. He was appointed by the Defendant Frank.
THE PRESIDENT: Captain Sprecher, I don't think I made it quite clear -that the Tribunal is not really interested in these details by which the Defendant, von Schirach, acquired his power over the German Youth. You have told us sufficient to establish in our minds, so far at any rate, that he managed to get absolute command over the German Youth. The only think that seems to me to be pertinent at the pres ent stage is whether or not you can show us any direct evidence that the Defendant, Schirach, was a party to the aggressive aims of the Reich leaders or to any war crimes or to any crimes against humanity. Unless you can show us that, your address to us is really not useful to us at this stage.
CAPTAIN SPRECHER: I plan to take up directly, your Honor, the question of the militarization of youth. I did want to make one reference at this point to the relation of the Hitler Youth to the League for Germandom Abroad, it that is satisfactory to your Honor.
THE PRESIDENT: The League for Germandom Abroad?
CAPTAIN SPRECHER: Yes, sir.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, that may bear on the aggressive aims of the Reich Leaders.
CAPTAIN SPRECHER: Schirach extended the influence of the Hitler Youth beyond the borders of Germany by means of cooperation between the Hitler Youth and the League for Germandom Abroad, the VDA. This is proven by an agreement made in 1933 between Schirach and leaders of the VDA which is contained in Document L-360-H, Document Book page 3. This is offered in evidence as U.S. Exhibit 671.
Now, Schirach discusses in his book, "The Hitler Youth," under the chapter heading, "Work Abroad" (that is Chapter 4. of the book, pages 34 to 38 of the Document Book) some of the connections of the Hitler Youth with such Nazi ideas as lebensraum, colonial policy.
I won't read from that, since it also covers to a certain extent -
THE PRESIDENT: Did it talk about "lebensraum"?
CAPTAIN SFRECHER: It actually used the word, "lebensraum. At page 36 of the document there is reference made to the "Ostraum," space in the East -
THE PRESIDENT: I thought the document you were dealing with was L-368 on page 3.
CAPTAIN SPRECHER: I am sorry. I had gone on from there, to speak about Schirach's book.
THE PRESIDENT: Oh.
CAPTAIN SPRECHER: Document 1458, PS, and I had mentioned that at pages 34 to 38 of that book there were references concerning the Nazi ideas of colonial policy and lebensraum, and that this book by Schirach indicated that the Hitler Youth received its funds for spreading those ideas.
THE PRESIDENT: That is page 36?
CAPTAIN SPRECHER: Yes, page 36 of the Document Book.
He uses the word, "ostraum" in speaking of space in the East, and he discusses German Youth organizations abroad and the German schools in these countries. And then I wish particularly to point out on page 37 the following sentence, since you have asked about this -- it is near the bottom of page 37; typewritten page 24 of the original document, if that helps -
THE PRESIDENT: Page 37 or -
CAPTAIN SPRECHER: It is page 37 of the Document Book which is not consecutive all the way through, but page 24 of this document 1258, in the English translation.
"(Reading) It will be taken into consideration concerning this schooling that the Guardian Line of German population policy which aims at the utilization of the space in the East will not be violated."
Hitler Youth, I would like to ask your indulgence while I make a short quotation from that master ideological leader, the Defendant, Alfred Rosenberg, found in Document 130-PS, your Document Book page 122, which is offered as U.S. Exhibit 672. Rosenberg was making an answer to some inquiries of the Defendant, Bormann, about the expediency of initiating some legal proceedings against the Churches in 1939. Rosenberg replied apparently in closing an article which he had written the year before, and it is from this article that I wish to quote:
"We have made quite some progress in .carrying the N.S. ideology to German Youth. What there is still left of Catholic Youth are only small groups, which will be absorbed as time goes on. The Hitler Youth is the absorbing sponge which nobody can resist. Furthermore, our program for education in all categories of our schools has been built up already with such an anti-Christian and anti-Jewish tendency that the generation growing up now will be safe from the black "swindle."
That is on pages 122 and 123. The quotation is from page 123. The document begins at page 122 -- all underlined in red. I use that extract, your Honor, in connection with the expectancy of these conspirators themselves with respect to the Hitler Youth and what it was to do to the mind of young Germans. of their scheme of things by selecting and training successors for Nazi leadership, selecting and training and acquiring active Nazis for the rank and file of the NSDAP and its affiliated organizations, including the SA and the SS which are alleged here to be criminal organizations. "Successor Problems," show the dominant part assumed by Schirach and his Hitler Youth in this field. Our Document No. 3348-PS, Selections from Volume I of the Decrees, Regulations and Announcements of the Party Chancellory, already marked in evidence as U.S. Exhibit 410, contains some of these orders, which I won't take the time to read. However, they are all contained in page 113 of your Document Book.
admitted to the Party. Nazi leaders were directed to absorb full-time Hitler Youth leaders into their staffs so as to offer them practical experiences and thus secure necessary successors in the Leadership Corps. This pivotal and central functions of the Hitler Youth in the domination of German life by the Party is also shown at pages 80 and 81 of the 1938 Party Manual, U.S. Exhibit 430, found at page 74 of the Document Book.
THE PRESIDENT: That last page, page 113, does that refer to any of the matters to which I drew your attention? It is simply the organization of the youth; it has nothing to do with any criminal aims.
CAPTAIN SPRECHER: Your Honor, it certainly is the contention of the Prosecution that any man who took an active part in furnishing, for these criminal organizations, young members committed a crime.
THE PRESIDENT: I quite understand that, and that is why I told you that we were satisfied that so far you had shown--subject, of course, to what the Defendant von Schirach might be able to show--that he has acquired and was the leader of the German youth. The only things we want to hear about at this stage is whether he was a party to the schemes for aggressive war, to war crimes, or to crimes against humanity. That is what we want to hear, and we don't want to hear anything else.
CAPTAIN SPRECHER: Your Honors, may I pass, then, to the connection of the Hitler Youth to the SS. Document 2396-PS, which is found at page 69 of the Document Book--which is offered as USA Exhibit 673--has a quotation in it concerning the Streifendienst of the Hitler Youth, the Streifendienst being the patrol service, a type of self-police organization of the Hitler Youth. The quotation which I intend to read will indicate how this organization became the principal supplier of the SS. Hitler Youth as the main source of the SS?