“My dear fellow countrymen, our magnificent SA and SS,
persecuted and insulted during a whole decade as the scum of the
German people, have carried through, supported, and sustained
this revolution with an unshakable discipline....”
Do you confirm this declaration?
SAUCKEL: Yes, but I request that I be shown the document in
cross-examination so that I can define my attitude in detail.
M. HERZOG: This document is taken from your own document book, which you
yourself submitted.
SAUCKEL: Yes, I remember it well.
M. HERZOG: Were the Nuremberg Laws concerning Jews in accordance with
your convictions?
SAUCKEL: I had no influence on legislation such as culminated in the
Nuremberg Laws. My conviction is that every nation and every race has
the right to exist and to demand respect and protection through itself.
What I demand and have demanded for my own people is exactly the same.
M. HERZOG: Did you see to it that the Nuremberg Laws were strictly
applied in the Gau of Thuringia?
SAUCKEL: The Nuremberg Laws could apply to Thuringia only insofar as my
authority to appoint or dismiss employees was involved; and, of course,
according to German law, it was my duty to carry out the law. The
carrying out of this law by me entailed neither ill-usage nor any other
inhuman treatment.