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NSDAP proclamation supporting Rosenberg's plan for twice-yearly community schools representing all party organizations

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Richard-Walther Darre (agriculture minister)

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Richard-Walther Darré

Nazi SS General (1895-1953)

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  • Born: 1895-07-14 (Buenos Aires Belgrano)
  • Died: 1953-09-05 (Munich)
  • Country of citizenship: Argentina
  • Occupation: agronomist; politician; writer
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party
  • Member of: Schutzstaffel (series ordinal: 6882; since: 1931-02-25)
  • Military rank: general
  • Military branch: Imperial German Army

Konstantin Hierl (Reich Labor Service)

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Konstantin Hierl

German politician (1875-1955)

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  • Born: 1875-02-24 (Parsberg)
  • Died: 1955-09-23 (Heidelberg)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: politician
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party
  • Military rank: colonel
  • Position held: Reichsarbeitsdienst; member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany; member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
  • VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/18016835

Heinrich Himmler (Reichsfuehrer-SS and Chief of Police; Minister of Interior)

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Heinrich Himmler

German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS and main architect of the Holocaust (1900-1945)

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  • Born: 1900-10-07 (Munich)
  • Died: 1945-05-23 (Lüneburg)
  • Country of citizenship: German Empire (period: 1900-10-07 through 1918-01-01); Nazi Germany (since: 1923-01-01); Weimar Republic (period: 1915-01-01 through 1937-01-01)
  • Occupation: farmer; laboratory technician; occultist; politician
  • Member of political party: Bavarian People's Party (period: 1919-01-01 through 1923-01-01); National Socialist Freedom Movement; Nazi Party
  • Member of: Academy for German Law (since: 1933-01-01); Altreichsflagge (until: 1926-01-01); Artaman League; Bund Reichskriegsflagge
  • Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch (date: 1923-11-09); Nazi human experimentation (role: administrator); Night of the Long Knives
  • Significant person: Rudolf Brandt (role: secretary, stenographer; since: 1934-01-01)

Robert Ley (Dr., Reichsleiter of German Labor Front)

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Robert Ley

German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)

Robert Ley na jaře 1933
  • Born: 1890-02-15 (Niederbreidenbach)
  • Died: 1945-10-25 (Nuremberg Court Prison)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: aircraft pilot; chemist; politician
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party
  • Member of: Sängerschaft zu St. Pauli Jena
  • Military rank: lieutenant
  • Position held: Member of Landtag of Prussia; member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany; member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic

Viktor Lutze (chief of staff of Storm Troops (SA) (1934-))

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Viktor Lutze

SA Stabschef (1890-1943)

Лютце през 1938 г.
  • Born: 1890-12-28 (Bevergern)
  • Died: 1943-05-02 (Potsdam)
  • Country of citizenship: Nazi Germany
  • Occupation: military officer; politician
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1926-03-22)
  • Member of: Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund; Sturmabteilung
  • Military rank: captain
  • Military branch: Imperial German Army; Sturmabteilung

Baldur Schirach, von (Nazi youth leader; governor of Vienna)

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Baldur von Schirach*

German Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1907-1974)

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  • Born: 1907-05-09 (Berlin)
  • Died: 1974-08-08 (Kröv)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: autobiographer; politician; screenwriter
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party
  • Member of: Sturmabteilung
  • Military branch: Wehrmacht
  • Position held: member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany; member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic

NSDAP (Nazi Party as an organization)

Date: July 1934

Literal Title: From: "The Third Reich" . . . NSDAP Community Schools.

Defendant: Alfred Rosenberg

Total Pages: 1

Language of Text: English

Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)

Evidence Code: PS-3528

Citation: IMT (page 2424)

HLSL Item No.: 452196

Trial Issue

Education, propaganda, and youth programs (IMT)

Document Summary

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PS-3528: Declaration signed by DarrÉ, Himmler, hierl, Lutze and Schirach, July 1934, showing agreement with Rosenberg's attempt to unite the whole Nsdap ideologically and politically by means of so-called "communal schools"

THE THIRD REICH [Das dritte Reich] by Gerd Ruehle, Second Year 1934, Page 297.
NSDAP Community Schools
But the unity of all the National Socialist organizations was demonstrated particularly forcibly when at the suggestion of Reichsleiter and party member Alfred Rosenberg (whose whole task with regard to ideology and training we have already dealt with on January 24th in section 2) the following joint proclamation was issued:
We support the request of the Fuehrer's Commissioner for the supervision of the whole spiritual and ideological training and instruction of the NSDAP, Party member Alfred Rosenberg, to organize community schools of all organizations of the NSDAP twice a year, in order to show by this common effort the ideological and political unity of the NSDAP and the steadfastness of the National Socialist will.
Berlin, July 1934
signed: R. Walther Darre, Reich Farmers' Leader, Minister of the Reich.
signed: Konstantin Hierl, Reich Labor Service Leader, Secretary of State.
signed: Heinrich Himmler, Reichsfuehrer of the SS. signed: Dr. Robert Ley, Director of the "P. 0." signed: Viktor Lutze, Chief of Staff of the SA. signed: Baldur von Schirach, Youth Leader for the German Reich.
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