Extracts from National Socialist

(USA 325)...........
Allocution of His Holiness Pope
Pius XII, to the Sacred College,
2 June 1945. (USA 356)......... V

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Geneva Convention of 1929 rela-
tive to treatment of Prisoners of
War...

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SD Inspector Bierkamp's letter,
12 December 1941, to RSHA en-
closing copy of secret decree signed
by Bormann, entitled Relationship
of National Socialism and Chris-
tianity. (USA 348). . . . . . . .
Circular, 15 March 1945, from
NSDAP Gauleitung Hessen-
Nassau to the "Kreis"-Leaders of
the Gau, concerning Action by the
Party to keep Germans in check
until end of the War. (GB 282)... VII
Letter from Hoffman, 25 Febru-
ary 1945, concerning action to be
taken against pilots who are shot
down. (USA 335).
"The Strategic Position at the Be-
ginning of the 5th Year of War", a

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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.