beitsdienst) under which young men and women between 18 and 25 years of age were conscripted for labor service under the administration of the Reich Minister of Interior, Frick. (1389-PS) After war had been declared, the Nazi conspirators openly admitted the objectives of the Nazis' control over labor. A publication of the Scientific Institute of the German Labor Front declared that it had been difficult to make the German people understand continuous renunciations in social conditions because all the nation's strength had been channeled into armaments (Wehrhaftigkeit) for "the anticipated clash with an envious surrounding world" (2276-PS). Addressing workers five days after the launching of war on Poland, Ley admitted that the Nazis had mobilized all the resources and energies of Germany for seven years "so as to be equipped for the supreme effort of battle" and that the First World War had not been lost because of cowardice of German soldiers, "but because dissension and discord tore the people asunder" (1939-PS). Ley's confidence in the Nazis' effective control over the productive labor capacity of Germany in peace or war was declared as early as 1936 to the Nurnberg Party Congress: "The idea of the Factory Troops is making good progress in the plants, and I am able to report to you, my Fuehrer, that security and peace in the factories has been guaranteed, not only in normal times, but also in times of the most serious crisis. Disturbances such as the munitions strikes of the traitors Ebert and confederates, are out of the question. National Socialism has conquered the factories. Factory Troops are the National Socialist shock troops within the factory, and their motto is: THE FUEHRER IS ALWAYS RIGHT." (2283–PS) LEGAL REFERENCES AND LIST OF DOCUMENTS RELATING TO DESTRUCTION OF THE FREE TRADE UNIONS AND ACQUISITION OF CONTROL OVER THE PRODUCTIVE LABOR CAPACITY IV 190 614-PS 1389-PS *1678-PS 1770-PS *1814-PS 1817-PS 1818-PS 1861-PS *1913-PS Proclamation of the Action Com- Law creating Reich Labor Service, 1933 Speech of Dr. Robert Ley. Docu- Law on the regulation of National 343 IV 411 IV 457 1939-PS Speech by Ley published in Forge 581 2050-PS *2224-PS 2225-PS 2226-PS 2228-PS The Constitution of the German 662 864 IV 868 869 *2330-PS 1038 IV 1039 *2331-PS 2332-PS *2333-PS Order of Protective Custody, Po- Death certificate, Flossenburg IV 1040 IV 1040 |