We come now to a particularly important point, involving Bormann's tieup with the SA. Command of the SA. SA, and knows full well that this was a semi- [ ... ]
"I, Robert M. W. Kempner, an expert consultant of the War Department, appeared before the undersigned attesting officer and, having been duly sworn, s [ ... ]
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 [ ... ]
LT. LAMBERT: (quoting) "The deputy of the Fuehrer expects that Party Offices will now abandon all distrust of the SD and will support it wholehearte [ ... ]
and then, in the third paragraph, Bormann gives his orders to all Party agencies with respect to reporting to the Gestapo on individuals who criticize [ ... ]
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 [ ... ]
planning and conducting the aggressive Nazi war economy. On 12 April 1943, as is shown in the publication "The Greater German Reichstag", 1943 Editio [ ... ]
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 Nationa [ ... ]
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 an [ ... ]
this stage, we find that the question -- THE PRESIDENT (Interposing): Only short argument. LT. [ ... ]