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entitled to subjugate

or even exterminate other races.

They said that the

German should be ruled

under the Fuhrer Principle

or leadership principle

by which each sub-leader

owed unconditional obedience

to his superior and so on

right up to Adolf Hitler.

They said that war was a noble

and necessary

activity of Germans.

And they said that

the Nazi Party alone

had the right to rule

Germany and the right

to destroy the party's enemies.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

Their rise to power

was based on fraud,

deceit, intimidation

and coercion,

culminating finally

in terror and flame.

Into that flame went the

Democratic constitution

of the Weimar Republic and the

freedom of the German people.

For the fire set by the Nazis

extended to the very Reichstag.

Hans Gisevius, a witness who

formerly held a high position

in the Berlin Police

Administration,

tells of his investigation

of the Reichstag fire.

(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

[NARRATOR] To speak briefly

and to state the facts.

First of all, we ascertain

that quite generally,

Hitler had stated the wish

for a large scale

propaganda campaign.

Goebbels took on the job of

making the necessary proposals

and it was Goebbels

who first thought

of setting the

Reichstag on fire.

A group of 10 reliable

S.A. men was made ready

and now Goering was informed

about every detail of the plan.

It was expected from Goering

and he gave his assurances

that he would do so, that the

police would be instructed,

while still suffering from

shock, to take up a false trail.

[NARRATOR] Using

the Reichstag fire

as a pretext for seizing power,

the Nazi conspirators

lost no time in tearing

Germany away from

a policy of peace.

Late in 1933, they

led their nation

out of the Disarmament

Conference,

quit the League of

Nations and embarked

on a course of

secret rearmament.

By 1934, the new armaments

program, designed by defendants

Goering, Schacht and Funk,

was going full blast.

German industry was again

turning out the tools of war.

The plants hummed and one year

later Goering could announce:

[NARRATOR] From

the strong foundation

of the National Socialist

Ideology today rises once again

the German Armed Forces.

[NARRATOR] A few days

later, General von Blomberg

announced the new law for

compulsory military service.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

The law was signed by

defendants Goering, Hess, Frank,

Frick, Schacht and Von Neurath.

The training began.

(MARCHING BAND MUSIC)

Finally, in the spring

of 1936, the Nazis

sent their new troops

marching into the Rhineland.

(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

[NARRATOR] Mein Fuhrer,

on March 7th, 1936,

soldiers of the army,

which was created

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