The first main task of the party, which is in keeping with its organic nature, is to protect the National Socialist idea and to constantly renew it by drawing from the depths of the German soul, to keep it pure and clear, and to pass it on thus to coming generations:  this is predominantly a matter of education of the people.

The second great task, which is in keeping with its organizational nature, is to form the people and the state into the unity of the nation and to create for the German national community forms which are ever new and suited to its vital development:  this is predominantly a matter of state formation.  These two tasks, one of which deals with substance and the other with function, belong together.  It is as impossible to separate them as it is to split up the party into organism and organization, form and content.[65]

Huber (document 1, post p. 155) describes the tasks of the party in similar terms.  He states that the party is charged with the “education of the people to a political people” through the awakening of the political consciousness of each individual; the inculcation of a “uniform political philosophy,” that is, the teaching of Nazi principles; “the selection of leaders,” including the choice and training of especially promising boys to be the Fuehrers of the future; and the shaping of the “political will of the people” in accordance with the Fuehrer’s aims.[66]

The educational tasks of the party are stressed by Beck, who develops the idea that the Volk can be divided into three main groups, “a supporting, a leading, and a creative class."[67] It is the duty of the leading class, that is, the party, from which the creative class of leaders is drawn, to provide for the education of the supporting class.

Every member of the body of the people must belong to the politically supporting class, that is, each one who bears within himself the basic racial, spiritual, and mental values of the people ...  Here no sort of leading or creative activity is demanded but only a recognition of the leading and creative will ...  Only those are called to leadership in political life who have recognized the community-bound law of all human life in purest clarity and in the all-embracing extent of its validity and who will place all the powers of their personal lives with the help of a politically moral character in the service of the formation of community life ...  From the politically leading class arise the politically creative personalities.  These are the mysterious elemental forces which are beyond all explanation by human reason and which through their action and by means of the living idea within them give to the community of the people an expression which is fresh, young, and eternal.  Here is the fulfilment of the highest and purest political humanity ...  The education of the socialist personality is essentially the forming of the