As has been indicated above, the Führer principle applies not only to the Führer of the Reich, Adolf Hitler, but to all the subordinate leaders of the party and the government apparatus. With respect to this aspect of the Führer 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 Führer-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 Führer-order.[59] The Führer 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 Führer 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 Führer, 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 be party members" ... The inner organization of the party must therefore bring the national life which is concentrated within itself to manifestation and development in all the fields of national endeavor in which the party is represented.[60] Gauweiler defines the relationship of the party to the state in the following terms: