f the party and the government apparatus. With respect to
this aspect of the Fuehrer principle, Huber (document 1, _post_ p.
155), says:

The ranks of the public services are regarded as forces
organized on the living principle of leadership and
following: The authority of command exercised in the labor
service, the military service, and the civil service is
Fuehrer-authority ... It has been said of the military and
civil services that true leadership is not represented in
their organization on the principles of command and
obedience. In reality there can be no political leadership
which does not have recourse to command and force as the
means for the accomplishment of its ends. Command and force
do not, of course, constitute the true nature of leadership,
but as a means they are indispensable elements of every
fully developed Fuehrer-order.[59]

The Fuehrer principle is officially recognized by the party, and the
party interpretation thereof is set forth in the _Party Organization
Book_ (document 7 and charts 1 and 1-A, _post_ pp. 186, 488, 489).

There are also included herein, as charts 2 and 2-A and 3 and 3-A
(_post_ pp. 490, 491, 492, 493), photostatic copies and translations
of two charts from _Der nationalsozialistische Staat_ (_The National
Socialist State_) by Dr. Walther Gehl, published in 1935. These charts
clearly show the concentration of authority in the Fuehrer and the
subordinate relation of the minor leaders in both the state and the
party.

The Party: Leadership by an Elite Class

_1. Functions of the Party_

The third pillar of the Nazi state, the link between _Volk_ and Fuehrer,
is the Nazi Party. According to Nazi ideology, all authority within the
nation is derived ultimately from the people, but it is the party
through which the people expresses itself. In _Rechtseinrichtungen und
Rechtsaufgaben der Bewegung_ (_Legal Organization and Legal Functions of
the Movement_) (document 8, _post_ p. 204), published in 1939, Otto
Gauweiler states:

The will of the German people finds its expression in the
party as the political organization of the people. It
represents the political conception, the political
conscience, and the political will. It is the expression and
the organ of the people's creative will to life. It
comprises a select part of the German people for "only the
best Germans should