Command of the SA. SA, and knows full well that this was a semi-military organization of young men whose main mission was to get control of the streets, and to impost terror on oppositional elements of the conspiracy.
Our submission at this stage is that by virtue of Bormann's position on the staff of the Supreme Command of the SA, he shares responsibility for the illegal activities of the SA in furtherance of the conspiracy. Party, of which he became head. Through this fund he collected large sums for the alleged purpose of aiding the families of Party members who had been killed or injured while fighting for the Party. Party took over the Government of Germany. Shortly thereafter, in July 1933, Bormann was given the number three position in the Party, that of Chief of Staff to the Defendant Hess, the Deputy of the Fuehrer. At the same time, he was made a Reichsleiter, and, as the Tribunal knows, that makes him a member of the top level of the alleged illegal organization, the Leadership Corps of the Nazi Party. German publication, "The Greater German Reichstag", edition of 1943, The facts which I have recited in the foregoing sketch of Defendant Bormann's career are set forth on page 167 of that publication, the English translation of which appears in Document 2981-PS of the Document Book now before the Tribunal.
With respect to Bormann's conviction for political murder, I offer in evidence Document 3355-PS, USA Exhibit 682, which is the affidavit of Dr. Robert M.W. Kempner, and I quote therefrom briefly as follows:
"I, Robert M. W. Kempner, an expert consultant of the War Department, appeared before the undersigned attesting officer and, having been duly sworn, stated as follows:
"In my capacity as Superior Government Counsellor and Chief Legal Advisor of the pre-Hitler Prussian Police Administration, I became officially acquainted with the criminal record of Martin Bormann, identical with the Defendant Martin Bormann now under indictment before the International Military Tribunal in Hurnberg, Germany.
"The official criminal record of Martin Bormann contained the following entry:
"Bormann, Martin, sentenced on May 15, 1924, by the State Tribunal for the Protection of the Republic, in Leipzig, Germany, to one year in prison, for having been an accomplice in the commission of a political murder. Signed: Robert M. W. Kempner." End of quotation.
THE PRESIDENT: Lt. Lambert, I don't think it is necessary for you, in dealing with a document of that sort, to read the formal parts. If you state the nature of the document and read the material part, you needn't deal with the formal parts; for instance, "I, Robert Kempner, an expert consultant", and all that. Do you understand me?
LT. LAMBERT: Thank you very much, sir, for a very helpful suggestion.
As Defendant Hess' Chief of Staff, Bormann was responsible for receiving and channeling up to the Defendant Hess the demands of the Party in all fields of state action. These demands were then secured by the Defendant Hess by virtue of his participation in the legislative process, his power with respect to the appointment and promotion of government officials, and by virtue of his position in the Reich Cabinet. Defendant Bormann with the SD and the Gestapo. As Chief of Staff to the Defendant Hess, Bormann took measures to reinforce the grip of the Gestapo and the SD over the German civil population. I request the Tribunal to notice judicially a Bormann order of 14 February 1935, set forth in the official publication, "Decrees of the Deputy of the Fuehrer", Edicition 1937, page 257.
I quote merely the pertinent portions of that decree, the English version of which is set forth in our Document 3237-PS, which reads as follows. That is our Document 3237-PS.
THE PRESIDENT: If you can summarize it -- if it is a document of which we can take judicial notice, it is sufficient for you to summarize it without reading it.
LT. LAMBERT: I appreciate that, sir. This quotation is so succinct and so brief that we perhaps could avoid -
THE PRESIDENT: Very well, go on.
LT. LAMBERT: (quoting) "The deputy of the Fuehrer expects that Party Offices will now abandon all distrust of the SD and will support it wholeheartedly in solving the difficult tasks with which it has been entrusted in order to protect the Movement and our people.
"Because the work ofthe party is primarily benefited by the work of the SD, it is unadmissable that its expansion be upset by prejudiced attacks when individuals fail. On the contrary, it must be wholeheartedly assisted. Signed, Bormann, Chief of Staff to the Deputy of the Fuehrer." End of quotation. That is with respect to Bormann's support of the SD.
I deal now with Bormann's effort to support the work of the Gestapo.
THE PRESIDENT: Lt. Lambert, wouldn't it be sufficient to say that that document indicates the support Bormann promised to the SD?
LT. LAMBERT: I was anxious merely on one point, sir, that a document that was not in evidence unless it had neen quoted.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, you began by asking us to take judicial notice of it.
LT. LAMBERT: Yes, sir.
THE PRESIDENT: If we can take judicial notice of it
LT. LAMBERT: Then it needn't be quoted?
THE PRESIDENT: It needn't be quoted That is what I am saying.
LT. LAMBERT; Then with respect to Bromann's efforts to reinforce the grip of the Gestapo, I request the Tribunal to notice judicially a Bormann order of 3 September, 1935, calling on Party agencies to report to the Gestapo all persons who criticize Nazi institutions or the Nazi Party. This decree appears in the official Party publication, "Decrees of the Deputy of the Fuehrer", 1937, at page 190. The English translation is set forth in our Document 3239--PS. I shall summarize the effect of this document shortly. In its first paragraph it refers to a law of 20 December 1934. As the Tribunal will recall, this law gave the same protection to Party institutions and Party uniforms as enjoyed by the State; and in the first and second paragraphs of this decree it is indicated that whenever a case came up involving malicious or slanderous attack on Party members or the Nazi Party or its institutions, the Reich Minister of Justice would consult with the Deputy of the Fuehrer in order to take joint action against the offender;
and then, in the third paragraph, Bormann gives his orders to all Party agencies with respect to reporting to the Gestapo on individuals who criticized the Nazi Party or its institutions. I quote merely the last paragraph.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I took down what you said in your first sentence, which was that the document showed that he was ordering that a report should be made to the Gestapo for anyone criticizing the Party. Well, that is sufficient, it seems to me, and all that you said after that is irrelevant -not irrelevant, but cumulative.
LT. LAMBERT: There is, however, one brief point, if I may be permitted, which I should like to emphasize, about the last paragraph, because I think it is helpful to the Prosecution's case against the Leadership Corps of the Nazi Party. with respect to whether the Prosecution's evidence involved the rank and file of the Leadership Corps. In the last paragraph of this decree Bormann instructs the Ortsgruppenleiter to report to the Gestapo persons who criticize Nazi Party institutions. Now, an important point with respect to the tie-up between Bormann and the SS. The Tribunal has already received the evidence establishing the criminality of the SS. In this connection, I respectfully request the Tribunal to notice judicially the July 1940 issue of "Das Archiv" our Document 3234-PS. On page 399 of that publication, under date 21 July 1940, it is stated that the Fuehrer promoted Defendant Bormann from Major General to Lieutenant General in the SS. Accordingly, we respectfully submit that Bormann is chargeable and jointly responsible for the criminal activities of the SS. Defendant Bormann succeeded him as head of the Nazi Party under Hitler, with the title Chief of the Party Chancery. I request the Tribunal to take judicial notice of a decree of 24 January 1942, 1942 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, page 35. In our conception this is an extremely important decree, because by virtue of it the participation of the Party in all legislation and in government appointments and promotions had to be undertaken exclusively by Bormann. He was to take part in the preparation -- and we emphasize that -- as well as the enactment and promulgation of all Reich laws and enactments; and, further, he had to give his assent to all enactmentsof the Reich Lander, that is, the States, as well as all decrees of the Reich Governors.
All communications between State and Party officials had to pass through his hands. And, as a result of this law, we respectfully submit, Bormann is chargeable for every enactment issued in Germany after 24 January 1942, which facilitates and furthers the conspiracy. to take judicial notice of a decree of 29 May 1941, 1941 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, page 295. In this decree Hitler ordered that Bormann should take over all powers and all offices formerly held by the Defendant Hess. I request the Tribunal to take judicial notice of another very important decree, that of the Ministerial Council for the Defense of the Reich, 16 November 1942.
THE PRESIDENT: Are these documents set out in the document book?
LT. LAMBERT: Yes, sir.
THE PRESIDENT: You haven't given us the reference.
LT. LAMBERT: That is true, sir. I recall from memory, although I do not have it in my manuscript, that document, that important decree of 24 January 1942 is our document, I believe, 2001-PS. decree of the Ministerial Council for the Defense of the Reich, dated 16 November, 1942, 1942 Reichsgesetzblatt, fart I, page 649. Under this decree, all Gauleiter who were under Bormann by virtue of his position, Chief of the party Chancery, were appointed Reich Defense Commissars and charged with the coordination, supervision, and management of the aggressive Nazi war effort.
planning and conducting the aggressive Nazi war economy.
On 12 April 1943, as is shown in the publication "The Greater German Reichstag", 1943 Edition, page 167, our Document 2981-PS, Bormann was appointed Secretary of the Fuerher, and we submit that this fact testifies to the intimacy and incluence of the Defendant Bormann on the Fuehrer and enlarges his role in, and responsibility for, the conspiracy.
We now come to the important point of Bormann's executive responsibility for the acts of the Volksturm. I request the Tribunal to notice judicially a Fuehrer order of 18 October 1944, which was published in the official Voelkischer Beobachter, 20 October 1944 edition, in which Hitler appointed Bormann political and organizational leader of the Volksturm. This is set forth in our Document 3018-PS, In this decree, Himmler is made the military leader of the Volksturm, but the organizational and political leadership is entrusted to Bormann. The Tribunal will know that the Volksturm was an organization consisting of all German males between 16 and 60. By virtue of Bormann's leadership of the Volksturm, he was instrumental in needlessly prolonging the war, with a consequential destruction of the German and the European war economy, and a loss of life and destruction of property. with respect to persecution of the Church. The Defendant Bormann authorized, directed, and participated in measures involving the persecution of the Christian Church. The Tribunal, of course, has heard much in this proceeding concerning the acts of the conspiracy involving the persecution of the Church. We have no desire now to rehash that evidence. We are interested in one thing alone, and that is nailing on the Defendant Bormann his responsibility, his personal, individual responsibility, for the persecution of the Church. with respect to such persecution of the Christian Churches. and Christian Clergy in Germany and in German-occupied Europe. I shall refer the Tribunal, without quoting therefrom, to Document D-75, previously introduced in evidence as USA Exhibit No. 348, which contains a copy of the secret Bormann decree of 6 June 1941 entitled "The Relationship of National Socialism to Christianity."
In this decree, as the Tribunal will well recall, Bormann bluntly declared that National Socialism and Christianity were imcomptible, and he indicated that the ultimate aim of the conspirators was to assure the elimination of Christianity itself. previously put in as USA Exhibit No. 350. This is a letter from the Defendant Bormann to the Defendant Rosenberg, dated 22 February 1940, in which Bormann reaffirms the incompatibility of Christianity and National Socialism.
Now, in furtherance of the conspirators' aim to undermine the Christian Churches, Bormann took measures to eliminate the influence of the Christian Church from within the Nazi Party and its formations. I now offer in evidence Document 113-PS, as USA Exhibit 683. This is an order of the Defendant Bormann, dated 27 July 1938, issued as Chief of Staff to the Deputy of the Fuehrer, Hess, which prohibits clergymen from holding Party offices. I shall not take the time of the Tribunal to spread this quotation upon the record. The point of it is, as indicated, that Bormann issued an order forbidding the appointment of clergymen to Party positions.
THE PRESIDENT: Perhaps this would be a good time to break off for ten minutes.
(A recess was taken from 1120 to 1130 hours ) LT.
LAMBERT: May it please the Tribunal, we are dealing with the efforts of the Defendant Bormann to expel and exorcise from the Party all church and religious influence.
I offer in evidence Document 838-PS, as USA Exhibit 684. I shall not burden the record with extensive quotation from this exhibit, but merely point out that this is a copy of a Bormann decree dated 3 June 1939, which laid it down that followers of Christian Science should be excluded from the Party. previously introduced in evidence as USA Exhibit 355. The Tribunal will recall that this was a Bormann decree of 14 July 1939, referring with approval to an earlier Bormann decree of 9 February 1937 in which the Defendant Bormann ruled that in the future all Party members who entered the clergy or who undertook the study of theology were to be expelled from the Party. circular directive of the Defendant Bormann dated 17 June 1938, addressed to all Reichsleiters and Gauleiters, top leaders of the Leadership Corps of the Nazi Party, transmitting a copy of directions relating to the nonparticipation of the Reich Labor Service in religious celebrations. The Reich Labor Service, the Tribunal will recall, compulsorily incorporated all Germans within its organization.
DR. BERGOLD (Counsel for Defendant Bormann): The member of the Prosecution just mentioned a number of documents as proof, in which he proved that, as caused by Bormann, members of the Christian religion were excluded from the Party, or affiliated members, and I beg the High Tribunal to tell the member of the Prosecution how and why his activity, that is, the exclusion of Christian members from the Party, can be a war crime. I cannot gather this evidence from the trial brief. The Party is regarded as the conspiracy. Is it a crime to exclude certain people from membership in a criminal organization Is that considered a crime or why was this exclusion of certain members from the Party considered a crime?
THE PRESIDENT: Counsel will answer you.
LT. LAMBERT: If the Tribunal will willingly accomodate argument at this stage, we find that the question --
THE PRESIDENT (Interposing): Only short argument.
LT. LAMBERT: Yes, sir. --- admits of a short, and, as it seems to us, easy answer. is that Bormann had a hatred and an enmity and took oppositional measures towards the Christian Church. The Party was the repository of political power in Germany. To have power one had to be in the Party or subject to its favor. By his efforts, concerted, continuing and consistent, to exclude clergynen, theological students or any persons sympathetic to the Christian religion, Bormann could not have chosen a clearer method of showing and demonstrating his hatred and his distrust of the Christian religion and those who supported it.
THE PRESIDENT: Counsel for Bormann can present his argument upon this subject at a later stage. The documents appear to the Tribunal to be relevant.
LT. LAMBERT: With the Tribunal's permission, I had just put in Document 107-PS and pointed out that it transmitted directions relating to the nonparticipation of the Reich Labor Service in religious celebrations. I quote merely the fourth and fifth paragraphs of page 1 of the English translation of Document 107-PS, which reads as follows:
"Every religious practice is forbidden in the Reich Labor Service because it distrubs the comrade-like harmony of all working men and women.
"On this behalf, every participation of the Reich Labor Service in churchly that is religious, arrangements and celebrations is not possible". put in as USA Exhibit No. 349. The Tribunal will recall that this was a Letter from Bormann's office to Defendant Rosenberg, dated 25 April 1941, in which Bormann declared that he had achieved progressive success in reducing and abolishing religious services in schools, and in replacing Christian prayers with National Socialist mottoes and rituals. In this letter, Bormann also proposed a Nazified morning service in the schools in place of the existing confession and morning service. Bormann authorized, directed, and participated in measures leading to the closin reduction, and suppression of theological schools, faculties and institutions.
The attention of the Tribunal is invited to Document 116-PS, USA Exhibit No. 685, which I now offer in evidence. This is a letter from the Defendant Bormann to the Defendant Rosenberg, dated 24 January 1939, enclosing, for Rosenberg's cognizance, a copy of Bormann's letter to the Reich Minister for Knowledge and Education. In the enclosed letter, Bormann informs the Minister as to the Party's position in favor of restricting and suppressing theological faculties. Bormann states that owing to war conditions it had become necessary to reorganize the German high schools, and in view of this situation he requested the Minister to restrict and suppress certain theological faculties. of Document 116-PS, which reads as follows:
"I would appreciate it very much if you would restrict the theological faculties in so far as they cannot be wholly suppressed in accordance with the above statement. I request in this instance the omission of any expressed declaration to the churches to other places, as well as avoiding of a public announcement of these measures. Complaints and the like must be announced, if they are to be replied to, in the fashion that these measures are being executed in the course of the economic plan of re-organization and that similar things are happening to other faculties. I would appreciate it very much i f professorial chairs thus vacated can be then turned over to the newly created fields of inquiry of the last years, such as national research, archeological studies, etc.
"Martin Bormann". "Please close down the religious faculties and substitute in their place Nazi faculties and university chairs, with the mission of investigating racism, cultism, Nazi archeology," the sort of thing done in the Hohe Schule, which was so clearly demonstrated in the Prosecution's case against the plundering activities of the Einsatzstab Rosenber. viously put in as USA Exhibit No. 362. The Tribunal will recall that 122-PS is a letter from the Defendant Bormann to the Defendant Rosenberg, dated 17 April 1939, transmitting to Rosenberg a photostatic copy of the plan of the Reich Minister of Science, Education and Training for the combining and dissolving of certain specified theological faculties.
In his letter of transmittal, Bormann requested Rosenberg to take "cognizance and prompt action" with respect to the proposed suppression of religious institutions.
I next offer in evidence Document 123-PS, USA Exhibit 686. This is a confidential letter from the Defendant Bormann to the Minister of Education, dated 23 June 1939, in which Bormann sets forth the Party's decision to order the suppression of numerous theological faculties and religious institutions. The Tribunal will note that the letter lists 19 separate religious institutions with respect to which Bormann ordered dissolution or restriction. with the various theological faculties, Bormann stated as follows -- and I quote from the next to last paragraph of page 3 of the English translation of Document 123-PS, which reads as follows:
"In the above I have informed you of the Party's wishes after thorough investigation of the matter with all Party offices. I would be grateful if you would initiate the necessary measures as quickly as possible, in regard to the great political significance for the Gau concerned, which will be the result of every single case of such a combination." Exhibit 687. In summary, without quotation therefrom, this is a letter from the Defendant Bormann to the Defendant Rosenberg, dated 12 December 1939, relating to the suppression of seven professorships in the near-by University of Munich. confiscation of religious properties and cultural property. Bormann used his paramount power and position to cause the confiscation of religious property and to subject the Christian churches and clergy to a discriminatory legal regime.
I offer in evidence Document 099-PS, USA Exhibit 688. This is a copy of a letter from Bormann to the Reich Minister for Finance, dated 19 January 1940, in which Bormann demanded a great increase in the special war tax imposed on the churches.
I quote from the first two paragraphs of page 2 of the English translation of Document 099-PS, which read as follows:
"As it has been reported to me, the war fund of the churches has been specified from the 1 November 1939 on, at first for the duration of three months at RM 1,800,000 per month, of which RM 1,000,000 are to be paid by the Evangelical church, and RM 800,000 by the Catholic church per month. The establishment of such a low amount has surprised me. I construe from numerous reports that the political communities have to raise such a large war fund that execution of their tasks, partially very important, for example, in the field of public welfare, is endangered. In consideration of that, a larger quota from the churches appear to be absolutely appropriate."
The question may arise: Of what criminal effect is it to demand larger taxes from churchly institutions? Taking this demand of Bormann's by itself, the prosecution would not suggest that it had criminal effect, but when viewed within the larger frame of Bormann's demonstrated hostility to the Christian Church and his efforts, not merely to circumscribe but to eliminate it, we suggest that this document has probative value in showing Bormann's hostility and his concrete measures to effectuate that hostility against the Christian churches and clergy. USA Exhibit No. 360. The Tribunal will recall that this was a latter from Bormann to Reichsleiter Amann, dated 8 March 1940, in which Bormann instructed Amann, Reichsleiter of the Press, to make a sharper restriction in paper distribution against religious writings in favor of publications more acceptable to the Nazi ideology.
I next offer in evidence Document 066-PS, as USA Exhibit 689. This is a letter from the Defendant Bormann to the Defendant Rosenberg, dated 24 June 1940, transmitting a draft of a proposed discriminatory church law for Danzig and West Prussia. This decree on the states is a direct abridgement of religious freedom, for in paragraph 1 -- I do not quote but briefly and rapidly summarize -- the approval of the Reich Deputy for Danzig and West Prussia is required as a condition for the legal competence of all religious organizations.
organizations and congregations to state or municipal subsidies and prohibited religious organizations, from exercising their right of collecting dues without the approval of the Reich Deputy. organizations was made subject to the approval of the Reich Deputy. All credit rights acquired by religious organizations prior to January 1, 1940 were required to be ratified by the Reich Deputy in order to become actionable.
I now offer in evidence Document 1600-PS, USA Exhibit 690. This comprises correspondence of Bormann during 1940, and 1941 relating to the confiscation of religious art treasures. I quote the text of the second letter set forth on page 1 of the English translation of Document 1600-PS, which is a letter from the Defendant Bormann to Dr. Posse of the State Picture Gallery in Dresden, dated 16 January 1941, which reads as follows, and I quote:
"Dear Dr. Posse:
"Enclosed herewith I am sending you the pictures of the altar from the convent in Hohenfurther near Kruman. The convent and its entire property shall be confiscated in the immediate future because of the attitude, hostile towards the state, of its inhabitants. It shall be up to you to decide whether the pictures shall remain in the convent at Hohenfurther or be transferred to the museum at Linz after the latter shall be completed.
"I shall await your decision in the matter.
"Bormann."
The Tribunal may know that in what is described as Hitler's last will and testament, he makes a bequest of all the art treasures he had in the museum at Linz, and from a legal point of view-he uses the euphemism "art treasures which I have bought."
properties, the cultural art treasures in the museum at Linz were acquired. armed forces, the defendant Bormann took measures to exclude and exorcise all religious influence from the troops. The attention of the Tribunal is invited to Document 101-PS, previously put in as USA Exhibit No.361. The Tribunal will recall that this is a letter from the Defendant Bormann dated 17 January 1940, in which Bormann pronounced the Party's opposition to the circulation of religious literature to the members of the German armed forces. In this letter Bormann stated that if the influence of the church upon the troops was to be effectively fought, this could only be done by producing, in the shortest possible time, a large amount of Nazi pamphlets and publications.
I now offer in evidence Document 100-PS, as USA Exhibit No.691. This is a letter from the Defendant Bormann to Rosenberg, dated 18 January 1940, in which Bormann declares that the publication of Nazi literature for army recruits as a counter-measure to the circulation of religious writings was the "most essential demand of the hour."
I forebear from quoting from that document. Its substance is indicated. publication entitled "Decree of the Deputy of the Fuehrer", edition of 1937, and I quote from pare 235 of this Volume, the pertinent and important decree issued by the Defendant Bormann to the Commissioner of the Party Directorate, dated 7 January, 1936, the English version of which is set forth in the English translation of our Document 2346-PS. In this one sentence Bormann aims and directs the terror of the Gestapo against dissident church members, who crossed the conspirators, and I quote:
"If parish priests or other subordinate Roman Catholic leaders adopt an attitude of hostility towards State or Party, it shall be reported to the Secret State police (Gestapo) through official channels. (Signed) Bormann." the Defendant Bormann for the persecution of the Jews. Again, the Prosecution seeks not to rehash the *--* copious evidence in the record on the persecution of the Jews, but rather to limit itself to evidence fastened on the Defendant Bormann, his individual responsibility for the persecution of the Jews. Bormann shares the deep guilt of the Nazi conspirators for their odious program in persecution of the Jews. It was the Defendant Bormann, we would note, who was charged by Hitler with the transmission and implementation of the Fuehrer's orders for the liquidation of the so-called Jewish problem. November, 1938, in the course of which a large number of Jews were killed and harmed and Jewish shops pillaged and wrecked, and synagogues set ablaze all over the Reich; the Defendant Bormann, on orders from Hitler, instructed the Defendant Goering to proceed to the "final settlement of the Jewish question" in Germany. That is Hitler to Bormann, Bormann issuing the instructions to Goering. put in as U.S.A. Exhibit 261. The Tribunal is well acquainted with this document. It has frequently been referred to. The Tribunal knows the Document 1816-PS is the minutes of a conference on the Jewish question, held under the direction of Goering on the 12th of November 1938.
I quote only the first sentence of Document 1816-PS, which fastens the responsibility open Bormann and which reads as follows:
"Goering: (speaking) Today's meeting is of a decisive nature. I have received a letter written on the Fuehrer's orders by the Chief of Staff of the Fuehrer's Deputy, Bormann, requesting that the Jewish question be now, once and for all, coordinated and solved one way or another." actions taken in this conference that constituted the so-called "settlement of the Jewish question." measures were issued and adopted by the Nazi conspirators. I offer in evidence Document 069-PS, U.S.A. Exhibit 589. This is a decree of Bormann, dated 17 January, 1939, in which Bormann demands compliance with the new anti-Jewish regulations, stemming and flowing from the Goering conference just referred to, under which Jews were denied access to housing, travel, and other facilities of ordinary life. I quote the Bormann order, which appears at page one of the English translation of Document 069-PS, which reads as follows:
"After a report of General Field Marshal Goering, the Fuehrer has made some basic decisions regarding the Jewish question. The decisions are brought to your attention in the enclosure. Strict compliance with these directives is requested. (Signed) Bormann," temptation to quote extensively from the enclosed order in Bormann's letter of transmittal. In effect, the crux of it is that Jews are denied sleeping compartments in trains, the right to give their trade to certain hotels in Berlin, Munich, Nurnberg, Augsburg and the like. They are banned and excluded from swimming pools, certain public squares, resort towns, mineral baths and the like. The stigma and the degradation and inconvenience in the ordinary affairs of life promoted by this decree is plain on its face. 1938, 1938 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, page 1709, well familiar to this Tribunal, for it was the decree which excluded Jews from economic life. This decree forbade Jews to operate retail shops and it was a decree which went far to eliminate the Jews from German economic life.
economic existence of large sections of the Jewish population. In that respect I request the Tribunal to notice judicially the authoritative Nazi publication entitled. "Decree of the Deputy of the Fuehrer", edition of 1937, our Document 3240-PS. At page 383 of this publication there appears a decree of the Defendant Bormann, dated 8 January, 1937, reproducing an order of the Defendant Frick, issued at Bormann's instigation, denying any financial assistance to government employees who employed the services of Jewish doctors, lawyers, pharmacists, morticians and other professional classes. I shall forbear from quoting the text of that decree. Its substance is as given.
Bormann decreed, quoting a Frick decree, issued at Bormann's instigation, government employees who employ the services of Jewish professional classes will get no reimbursement or compensation. The decree is signed by Bormann. intensity and brutality. If I may intrude, if it please the Tribunal, for the aid of the translators may I state I am now discussing from page 25 of the manuscript.
intensity and brutality. Thus, the Defendant Bormann participated in the arrangements for the deportation to Poland of 60,000 Jewish inhabitants of Vienna, in cooperation with the SS and the Gestapo. I have no doubt that the Tribunal received this document in connection with the case against von Schirach. It is our Document 1950-PS and on its face it points out and Lammer says -- Bormann has informed me and von Schirach of your proposal to bring about the deportation. I limit myself to pointing out that single, solitary fact. Chancery, he used his vast powers in such a way that he was a prime mover in the program of starvation, degradation, spolioation and extermination of the Jews, and we use those terms advisedly, subject to the draconian rule of the conspirators. Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, page 297, which was signed by the Defendant Bormann and which extended the discriminatory Nurnberg laws to the an nexted Eastern Territories. I request the Tribunal to notice judicially the Eleventh Ordinance under the Reich Citizen Law of 25 November, 1941, Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, page 722, signed by the Defendant Bormann, which ordered the confiscation of the property of all Jews who had left Germany voluntarily or who had been deported.
I request the Tribunal to notice judicially an order of Bormann's dated 3 October, 1941.
THE PRESIDENT: You have not given us the PS numbers of either the 31 of May, 1941 or the one after that.
LT. LAMBERT: I confess delinquency of duty there. These decrees, in translated form, are all in the Document Book. I do not have, in my manuscript, their PS citation. However, in the brief now filed with, or soon to be delivered to the Tribunal, these decrees are given with their PS numbers opposite.
THE PRESIDENT: C-354 PS and 3241 PS.
LT. LAMBERT: That is very good of you sir, thank you.