Document No. 2344-PS

AUTHOR — International Military Tribunal

Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Volume IV

Document No. 2344-PS

TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2344-PS

RECONSTRUCTION OF A NATION \[Aufbau Einer Nation\] by Hermann Goering, 2nd Edition, Published by E. S. Mittler & Son, Berlin 1934, \[Page 89\].

Against the enemies of the State, we must proceed ruthlessly. It cannot be forgotten that at the moment of our rise to power, according to the official election figures of March 1933, six million people still confess their sympathy for Communism and eight million for Marxism . . . . Therefore, the concentration camps have been created, where we have first confined thousands of Communists and Social Democrat functionaries.

Source:<br>Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Volume IV<br>Office of the United States Chief Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality<br>Washington, DC : United States Government Printing Office, 1946