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establishing compulsory military service.
41
Frick
drafted, signed, and administered
numerous laws that abolished all opposition parties. He was also largely responsible
for the legislation which suppressed the Trade Unions, the Church and the Jews.
42
Political preparation
to war was in the hands of
Ribbentrop
and
Rosenberg
. The
last one, as a head of the Office of Foreign Affairs of the NSDAP was largely responsible
for Romania’s joining the Axis.
43
Ribbentrop
actively participated in the aggressive plans
against Czechoslovakia. In particular, in 1938 he gave instructions to the Sudeten
German Party which resulted in transfer of the Sudetenland to the Reich.
44
One of the main actors of
economical preparation
to the Second World War
was
Funk
. He received a post of Minister of Economics and Plenipotentiary General
for War Economy in 1938. One year later, he also took the office of President of the
Reichsbank.
45
The Minister of Economics was responsible for a gigantic increase in
armaments.
Schacht
played an important role in the vigorous rearmament programme
which was adopted, using the facilities of the Reichsbank. In its traditional capacity,
the Reichsbank acted as a financial agent for the German Government. It floated
long-term Government loans, the proceeds of which were used for rearmament. In
view of this, Schacht was active in organising the German economy for war.
46
The other important method in which the Nazis prepared for the war was
educational support
. This kind of preparation is connected to the name of
von
Schirach,
the Reich’s Youth Leader of the Nazi Party. He controlled all Nazi youth
organisations, including the Hitler Jugend. Von Schirach used them to educate
German young people in the spirit of National Socialism, which envisaged an
intensive programme of Nazi propaganda. Actually, he was a person who established
the Hitler Jugend as a source of replacements for the Nazi Party formations. In 1938
von Schirach agreed with Himmler that members of the Hitler Jugend who met SS
standards would be considered as the primary source of replacements for the SS.
47
The last kind of preparation for the aggressive war, according to the present research,
is
media or propagative
.
Fritzsche
was best known as a radio commentator, responsible
for propaganda in the Reich. Fifty years later his experience was utilised in Rwanda as a
means for invoking genocide.
48
The radio programme titled ‘Hans Fritzsche Speaks’ was
a source of encouraging hate and violence. Being a head of the Home Press Division,
Fritzsche also supervised the German press of 2,300 daily newspapers.
49
Moreover, he
41
Judgement: Hess. URL:
<http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/judhess.asp> [cit. 2015-08-11].
42
Judgement: Frick. URL:
<http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/judfrick.asp> [cit. 2015-08-11].
43
Judgement: Rosenberg. URL:
<http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/judrosen.asp> [cit. 2015-08-11].
44
Judgement: Ribbentrop. URL:
<http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/judribb.asp> [cit. 2015-08-11].
45
Judgement: Funk. URL:
<http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/judfunk.asp> [cit. 2015-08-12].
46
Judgement: Schacht. URL:
<http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/judschac.asp> [cit. 2015-08-12].
47
Judgement: von Schirach. URL:
<http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/judschir.asp> [cit. 2015-08-12].
48
Hate radio. URL:
<http://www.rwandanstories.org/genocide/hate_radio.html> [cit. 2015-08-12].
49
Judgement: Fritzsche. URL:
<http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/judfritz.asp> [cit. 2015-08-12].