ence has been made to the appointment of party members to
important state offices. Gauweiler (document 8, _post_ p. 204) points
out that the party insured the infusion of the entire structure
of the state with its ideology through the civil-service law
(_Beamtengesetz_) of January 26, 1937,[91] which provides that a
person appointed to a civil-service position must be "filled with
National Socialist views, since only thus can he be an executor of the
will of the state which is carried by the NSDAP. It demands of him
that he be ready at all times to exert himself unreservedly in behalf
of the National Socialist state and that he be aware of the fact that
the NSDAP, as the mouthpiece of the people's will, is the vital force
behind the concept of the German state."[92]

The infiltration of party members into the civil service has now
proceeded to such a point that early in 1942 Pfundtner, the Secretary
of State in the German Ministry of the Interior, could write in the
periodical _Akademie fuer deutsches Recht_:

The German civil servant must furthermore be a National
Socialist to the marrow of his bones and must be a member of
the party or of one of its formations. The state will
primarily see to it that the Young Guard of the movement is
directed toward a civil-service career and also that the
civil servant takes an active part in the party so that the
political idea and service of the state become closely
welded.[93]

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FOOTNOTES TO FIRST SECTION

[Footnote 8: Huber, _Verfassungsrecht des grossdeutschen Reiches_
(Hamburg, 1939), pp. 54-55.]

[Footnote 9: _Ibid._, pp. 153-155.]

[Footnote 10: _Ibid._, pp. 156-157.]

[Footnote 11: _Ibid._, p. 157.]

[Footnote 12: _Ibid._, p. 158.]

[Footnote 13: _Ibid._, p. 163.]

[Footnote 14: _Ibid._, p. 164.]

[Footnote 15: _Ibid._, pp. 165-166.]

[Footnote 16: Neesse, _Die Nationalsozialistische Deutsche
Arbeiterpartei--Versuch einer Rechtsdeutung_ (Stuttgart, 1935), p.
44.]

[Footnote 17: _Ibid._, p. 51.]

[Footnote 18: _Ibid._, p. 54.]

[Footnote 19: _Ibid._, p. 58.]

[Footnote 20: _Ibid._, pp. 54-56.]

[Footnote 21: _Ibid._, p. 59.]

[Footnote 22: _Ibid._, pp. 60-61.]

[Footnote 23: _Ibid._, pp. 65-66.]

[Footnote 24: Scurla, _Die Grundgedanken des Nationalsozialismus und
das Ausland_ (Berlin, 1938), pp. 10-11.]

[Footnote 25: _Ibid._, p. 9.]

[Footnote 26: _Ibid._]