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?
THE PRESIDENTS: Yes, perhaps; I haven't read it.
CAPTAIN SPRECHER: This document is an agreement between Schirach and Himmler. It was concluded in October 1938. It bears, I think, partial quoting:
"Organization of the Streifendienst.
"1. Since the Streifendienst in the Hitler Youth has to perform tasks similar to those of the SS for the whole movement, it is organized as a special unit for the purpose of securing recruits for the general SS. However, as much as possible, recruits for the SS Special Troops, for the SS Death Head Units, and for the officer candidate schools, should also be taken from these formations." red in your books "The selection of Streifendienst members is made according to the principles of racial selection of the Schutzstaffel.
The competent officials of the SS, primarily unit leaders, race authorities, and SS physicians, will be consulted for the admission tests."
Skipping to 5:
"To insure from the beginning a good understanding between Reich Youth Leadership and Reich SS Leadership, a liaison office will be ordered from the Reich Youth Leadership to the SS Main Office starting 1 October 1938. The appointment of other leaders to the SS sections is a subject for afuture agreement." Honor, 6:
"After the organization is completed, the SS takes its replacement primarily from these Streifendienst members. Admission of youths of German blood who are not members of the Hitler Youth is then possible only after information and advice of the competent Bann Leader." Jugend, and without his consent no one could go into the SS in the future after that agreement was made, which was in October 1938.
December 1938. It is found in our Document Book, No. 2567, page 98 of the Document Book. It is offered in evidence as USA Exhibit 674. It states that the Farm Service of the Hitler Youth "is, according to education and aim, particularly well suited as a recruiting agency for the SS, General SS and the armed section of the SS, SS Special Troops, and SS Death Head battalions." Youth who pass the SS admission tests will be taken over by the SS immediately after leaving the Hitler Youth Farm Service. Hitler Youth member who was in the Farm Service was obliged to go into the SS. And now, to come directly to the point you have been inquiring about, Your Honor: the launching of aggressive war, Schirach was actively engaged in militarizing German youth. From the beginning, the Hitler Youth was set up along military lines with uniforms, ranks, and titles. It was regimented and led in military fashion under the leadership principle. the Party Manual, and turn to the table, beginning with Table 54, and leaf through the book, you will see the very striking insignia of the Hitler Youth and how much it compares to what the normal military insignia were. You will further notice that one of the most prominent insignia is an "S" of the same type that the Nazis used with respect tothe SS. You will notice that part of the uniform was a long knife.
THE PRESIDENT: Isn't that all a part of what they are pleased to call the Nazi ideology? I mean, the Fuehrership principle, military training?
CAPTAIN SPRECHER: There is a relation between all of these things, perhaps, and the leadership principle, because the leadership principle dominated absolutely every aspect of German life.
However, Your Honors, I suggest that showing to you, in this graphic means, the similarity between the uniform of the Hitler Youth and military uniforms has some bearing upon the preparation foraggressive wars, about which I am further to speak in just a moment.
THE PRESIDENT: (interposing): One what?
CAPTAIN SPRECHER: Number 102. There is a whole book given over to just this question of the organization and the insignia of the Hitler Youth. or divisions which were very similar to military divisions.
That document is offered as USA Exhibit 675. I will refer no further to it. dropped some of the camouflage which surrounded their early military pre-parations for the wars which we have recently suffered, Hitler discussed the military training of the Hitler Youth in the Voelkischer Beobachter of the 21st of February, 1938. This is our document 2454-PS, found at page 97 of the Document Book. It is offered as USA Exhibit 676. ized trainin through the Hitler Youth in naval, aviation, and. motorized groups, and that over 7,000 instructors had trained more than one million Hitler Youth members in rifle shooting. That was February, 1938, shortly before the Anschluss. Note the progress of military training within the Hitler Youth between then and August 1939, just one month before the invasion of Poland. agreements, which many of these defendants like to make among themselves. It is Document No. 2398-PS, your Document Book page 72. It is offered as USA Exhibit 677. It is taken from "Das Archiv" which, in introducing the actual agreement, declared that this agreement was "the result of close cooperation" between Schirach and Keitel.
The agreement itself states, in part:
"While it is exclusively the task, of the Hitler Youth to attend to the training of their units in this direction, it is suitable, in the sense of a uniform training corr spending to the demands of the Wehrmacht, to support the leadership of the Hitler Youth for their responsible task as trainers and educators in all fields of training for defense by special courses." within the agreement: "A great number of courses are in progress." section on the aggressive war phase.
THE PRESIDENT: Very well.
CAPTAIN SPRECHER: Whereas Hitler, in February, 1938, mentioned that 7,000 Hitler Youth leaders were engaged in training Gernan youngsters in rifle shooting, Schirach and Keitel, in their agreement of august, 1939, note the following:
"Thirty thousand Hitler Youth leaders are already being trained annually in field service. The agreement with the Wehrmacht gives the possibility of roughly double that number. The billeting and messing of "Hitler Youth leaders is done, recording to the regulations for execution already published, in the barracks, drill grounds, etc., of the Wehrmacht, at a daily cost of 25 pfennigs." recruits for organized banditry and the commission of atrocities, so also he dealt with the head of the Wehrmacht in furnishing young men as human grist for the mill of aggressive war. an important central thread. It is one of the manifestations of Nazism which has shocked the entire civilized world. The principal responsibility for the planning and execution of the Nazi youth policy falls upon this defendant. Document No. 3302-PS, so that there can be no doubt before this Tribunal or before the world, indeed, as to this defendant's own feeling of responsibility:
"I feel myself responsible for the policy of the youth movement in the Party and later within the Reich." I underline the phrase "I feel myself responsible." discussion of Schirach's connection to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
THE PRESIDENT: Very well.
(Whereupon, at 1700 hours the hearing of the Tribunal adjourned, to reconvene at 1000 hours on 16 January 1946).
CAPTAIN SPRECHER: May it please the Tribunal, I now pass to activities which involve Schirach in the commission of crimes against humanity as they bear directly on Count 1. The presentation of all specific acts will deal with the Reichsgau Vienna, but first allow me to refer back to two important points in the previous proof, which will show that Schirach bears responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity which bring in the whole of Europe. Through his agreements with Himmler he provided, through the Hitler Youth, many if not most of the SS men who administered, in the main, the concentration camps, and whose war crimes and crimes against humanity throughout Europe generally are notorious. mentioning one more thing, that he cannot escape responsibility for implanting in youth the Nazi ideology generally, with its tenets of a master race, "sub-human" peoples, and "Lebensraum" and world domination. For such notions were the psychological prerequisites for the instigation and for the toleration of the atrocities which zealous Nazis committed throughout Germany and the occupied countries.
To present Schirach's responsibilities for crimes committed within the Reichsgau Vienna, where Schirach was Gau Leader and Reich Governor from July 1940 until the downfall, the general basic functions of these two offices must be held in mind.
The first document I refer to is Document No. 1893 PS. This is an extract from the party manual of 1943 and therefore catches Schirach in midstream in his activities in the Reichsgau Vienna. That is page 42 of the Document Book, at pages 70, 71, 75, 98, 136 and 140b of the party manual, extracts from each of those pages appearing in your document book.
The following highlights Concerning the Gau leader's functions will appear, and I propose only to paraphrase. Since your Honors may take judicial notice of the party manual, you may check at your leisure unless you wish me to read from any one of these specific orders. These orders make it appear that the Gau leader was the highest representative of Hitler in his Gau, that he was the bearer of sovereignty, the top "Hoheitstraeger", and that he had sovereign political rights. Beyond that he was responsible for the entire political situation in his Gau. He could call -- and we believe this is important -- upon SR and SSleaders as "needed in the execution of a political mission." leaders of the affiliated Party organizations within his Gau, and this of course will include the SS. The position of Reich Governor in Vienna was somewhat special. After the Anschluss the State of Austria was abolished and Austria was divided into 7 administrative Reich Gaus. The most important was the Reichsgau Vienna, of which Schirach was governor. Reference to any statistical manual or the like at this time will establish that at that time Vienna had a population of over two million people. Therefore it was certainly one of the principal cities of the Reich. The Tribunal is asked to take judicial notice of the decree, 1939 *GBl., Part I, p.777, our Document No.3301-PS, found at page 107 of the Document Book. This is basic law on the administrative reorganization of Austria, enacted in April 1939, a little more than a year before Schirach became Reich Governor. This law shows that Schirach, as Governor, was the lieutenant of the head of the German State, Hitler; that he could issue decrees and orders within limitations set by the Supreme Reich authorities; that he was specially under the administrative supervision of the defendant Frick, Reich Minister of the Interior; and that he was also first mayor of the city of Vienna. For the same period that Schirach was Gau leader and Reich Governor of Vienna, he was also Reich Defense Commissioner: of Vienna, and after 1940, of course, the Reich was engaged in war.
Because of his far-reaching responsibilities and authority in these positions, the prosecution contends that Schirach must be held guilty, specifically, of all the crimes of the Nazi conspirators in the Reichsgau Vienna, on the ground that he either initiated, approved, executed or abetted these crimes. Specific examples follow which in fact demonstrate that Schirach was actively and personally engaged in Nazi crimes and that when he became boastful, a characteristic never lacking in a number of these defendants, he himself admitted his own involvement in acts which are crimes within the competence of this Tribunal. industries of an important city like Vienna. The general nature of this program and the crimes flowing therefrom has in part been set before you by Mr. Dodd and the Soviet prosecution will present further acts later on. Document No. 3352-PS, found at P. 116 of the Document Book which I would like to offer as U.S. Exhibit 206, gives extracts from a number of orders from the Party Chancellory which bear on the Gau Leader's responsibility for manpower placement and utilization in Germany. They prove quite simply and in unmistakeable language that the Gau Leaders under the direction of the experienced old Gau Leader Sauckel, who was then Plenipotentiary for Manpower after March 1942, became the supreme integrating and coordinating agents of the Nazi conspirators in the entire manpower program. At page 508 of the original volume of orders (page 116 of the Document Book), the defendant Goering is shown to have agreed, as leader of the Four-Year Plan, to Sauckel's suggestion that the Gau Leaders be utilized to assure the highest efficiency in manpower. At page 511 (page 117 of the Document Book), Sauckel in July 1942 makes the Gau Leaders his special plenipotentiaries on manpower within their Gaus, with the duty of establishing a harmonious cooperation of all interests concerned. In effect the Gau Leader became the supreme arbitrator for all the conflicting interests that exist during wartime with respect to claims upon manpower. Under this same order the Provincial Labor Offices and their staffs were ''directed to be at the disposal of the Gau Leaders for information and advice and to fulfill the suggestions and demands of the Gau Leader for the purpose of improvements in manpower."
At page 567 of the Party Chancellory Order (p. 118 and 119 of the Document Book), the defendant Sauckel ordered that his special plenipotentiaries, the Gau Leaders, familiarize themselves with the general regulations on Eastern Workers. He stated that his immediate objective was "to avoid that politically inept factory heads -
THE PRESIDENT: Where is this?
CAPTAIN SPRECHER: That is at pages 118 and 119.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, but when you are quoting you might draw our attention to the part of the page you are quoting from.
CAPTAIN SPRECHER: It is ever on the next page, 119, your Honor.
THE PRESIDENT: Very well; go on.
CAPTAIN SPRECHER: Towards the end of the entire document:
He stated that his immediate objective was "to avoid that politically inept factory heads give too much consideration to the care of the Eastern workers and thereby cause justified annoyance among the German workers." to concern himself in such manpower details as concern over the alleged annoyance of German workers for the consideration given Eastern workers, it is unnecessary to press further into the detailed workings of the manpower program to establish Schirach's connection and responsibility to the Slave Labor Program in the Reichsgau Vienna. was chief Nazi youth leader has already been noted. In March 1941 two letters, one from the defendant Bormann, the other from the conspirator Hans Lammers-
THE PRESIDENT: Captain Sprecher, have you any other evidence which connects von Schirach with the problem of manpower?
CAPTAIN SPRECHER: I planned to present nothing further, your Honor. I felt that in view of the fact that our Soviet colleagues are going further with the details of the manpower program, particularly in the East, the main objective under Count I should merely be to show the general responsibil of the defendant Schirach for the Slave Labor Program.
The question of specific acts will have to be inferred from the other proof that is in the record and that which will come into the record later.
THE PRESIDENT: Very well.
CAPTAIN SPRECHER: There is just one further point: When I come to treat of the Jews in a few minutes, there will be one or two specific examples.
THE PRESIDENT: You are now going to deal with the persecution of churches, is that right?
CAPTAIN SPRECHER: Yes, sir. Book. This is offered as U.S. Exhibit 678. this document, in view of our common anxiousness to pass rapidly on; but perhaps I may paraphrase it and if you are not satisfied I will read it. Vienna Schirach and two other officials raised with the Fuehrer a complaint that the confiscations of church properties in Austria, made on various pretexts, should be made in favor of the Gaus rather than of the Reich, and later the Fuehrer decided the issue in favor of the position which had been taken by Schirach, namely, in favor of the Gau. I use this merely to connect Schirach with the persecution of the churches, concerning which there has been a great deal of evidence before this time.
THE TRIBUNAL (By Mr. Biddle): None of it is in evidence yet. You haven't put anything in evidence. We can't take judicial notice of something unless you ask us to.
CAPTAIN SPRECHER: Your ruling is that this wouldn't be in evidence unless I read it?
THE TRIBUNAL (By Mr. Biddle): I am not making any ruling; I was merel pointing out to you that we have nothing in evidence on the last document.
CAPTAIN SPRECHER: I think, under the circumstances I had better read the document.