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The Congress during which Hitler proclaimed the
three laws was called the Congress of Liberty to underscore that the Reich had
reassumed its military sovereignty (March 1935) by proclaiming obligatory
military service. On the other hand, the naval agreement with England implied
the expansion of its rearmament. As for the domestic situation, the opposition
forces were practically mastered by 1935. Far from appeasing him, this
situation incited Hitler at the Congress to particularly emphasize his
resolution to strike out harshly at the slightest sign of opposition. He
declared during the opening speech:
"This spirit of decision to stamp out
certain dangers in all circumstances, and even those still in the bud, will not
hesitate either, should the situation arise, to transfer functions which are
not fitting to the State because they are foreign to its very essence to
organizations better adapted to the execution of this task."
(18) Here Hitler denounced
the weakness of the professional police, who were still too influenced by
considerations of a careful respect of legality to act with full efficiency in
a field such as that of the Jewish question. Nevertheless, when the time for
the anti-Jewish action arrived, it was the Gestapo which detained the central
responsibility. But Heydrich had by that time integrated members of the SD with
his executives. As for the "organizations better adapted" evoked by Hitler to
rigorously apply a policy of repression, he gave at this same congress a
further detail, but a fundamental one, precisely on the subject of the
anti-Jewish policy.
We know that at this Congress of the Party he
convoked the Reichstag at Nuremberg in order to submit the laws already
mentioned. In the speech presenting them, Hitler let loose against the
anti-Nazi influence of Jews abroad, but also against the agitation which,
according to him, they maintained inside the Reich. He proclaimed:
"The third (law) is the attempt at a
legislative regulation of a problem which, in case of a new failure, must be
entrusted to the National Socialist Party for the definitive solution. Behind
the three laws stands the National Socialist Party and with it and behind it
the Nation. I ask that you accept these laws." (19) Hitler spoke in the opening discourse of
adequate "organizations" which would act in place of the State. Now he spoke of
the Party. But within the Party, among the organizations of repression, the SA
was already emasculated. What was left was the SS with its SD. As for the Party
as such, in 1938 it attempted to take in hand the economic Aryanization in
Austria. At a meeting on October 14, 1938, concerning the Four Year Plan,
Goering denounced (PS-1301) the savage acts of members of the Party designated
administrators of temporary enterprises. He also rejected the thesis according
to which Aryanization was a Party affair, it being exclusively an affair of the
State. It was precisely during this period that the process of integration into
the Gestapo of specialists of the Jewish question of the SD began in Austria,
annexed to the Reich.
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