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Letter to Reich Leader SS, 30 July
1941, concerning treatment of
church property in incorporated
Eastern areas. (USA 358)..
Letter from Chief of Staff of the
Reich Main Security Office
(RSHA) to Reich Leader SS, 30
March 1942, concerning confisca-
tion of church property. (USA
358)..
Himmler order of 10 August 1943
to all Senior Executive SS and
Police officers. (USA 333)..
Orders issued by Reich Commis-
sioner for the Consolidation of
German nationhood, 16 February

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*Chart No. 1

2)..

VIII

122

3. THE REICH CABINET

The Reich Cabinet, or Reichsregierung, unlike most of the other Nazi organizations, was not especially created by the Nazi Party to carry out or implement its purposes. The Reichsregierung had, before the Nazis came to power, a place in the constitutional and political history of the country. As with other cabinets of duly constituted governments, the executive power of the realm was concentrated in that body. The Nazi conspirators well realized this fact. Their aim for totalitarian control over the State could not be secured, they realized, except by acquiring, holding, and utilizing the machinery of the State. And this they did.