![]() ![]() Unlike Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels, who focused on a number of policy issues besides anti-Semitism, Streicher's career was single-minded in its devotion to rousing hatred against the Jews. Julius Streicher was the most visible and prolific anti-Semitic propagandist for the Nazi Party. Streicher's incitement to murder and extermination at the time when Jews in the East were being killed under the most horrible conditions clearly constitutes persecution on political and racial grounds in connection with war crimes, as defined by the Charter, and constitutes a crime against humanity.Nazi Party's primary anti-Semitic propagandist With knowledge of the extermination of the Jews in the Occupied Eastern Territories, this defendant continued to write and publish his propaganda of death. As early as 1938 he began to call for the extermination of the Jewish race. But it was not only in Germany that this defendant advocated his doctrines. "For his 25 years of speaking, writing, and preaching hatred of the Jews, Streicher was widely known as 'Jew-Baiter Number 1.' In his speeches and articles, week after week, month after month, he infected the German mind with the virus of anti-Semitism, and incited the German people to active persecution. Streicher with Hitler in Nuremberg in 1933.Įxcerpts from the judgment of the International Military Tribunal against Julius Streicher: As long as I stand at the head of the struggle, this struggle will be conducted so honestly that the eternal Jew will derive no joy from it." It was left to our Movement to expose the Jew as a mass murderer. "Never since the beginning of the world and the creation of man has there been a nation which dared to fight against the nation of blood-suckers and extortioners who, for a thousand years, have spread all over the world. "The Jewish rabble will be exterminated like the weeds and vermin so that it can never again disturb the bloodily fought for peace of the European peoples." November, 1940įrom a speech delivered by Julius Streicher on April 1, 1933. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch." March, 1940 ![]() "At the end of this Jewish war the extermination of the Jewish people will have been brought about." February, 1940 Then the plague of pests would have disappeared in Poland also at one stroke." September, 1939 "The Jewish people ought to be exterminated root and branch. ![]() He who helps bring this about helps to eliminate the devil, and the devil is the Jew." "The continued work of Der Sturmer will help to ensure that every German down to the last man will, with heart and hand, join the ranks of those whose aim it is to crush the head of the serpent Pan-Juda beneath their heels. Some previous quotes from Julius Streicher from before and during the war:įrom articles in his newspaper, Der Sturmer. Do not pronounce a judgment which would imprint the stamp of dishonor upon the forehead of an entire nation." Your Honors, fate has given you the power to pronounce any judgment. I have one for the German people from whom I come. Your Honors! Neither in my capacity as Gauleiter nor as political author have I committed a crime, and I therefore look forward to your judgment with a good conscience. in the same way as they are repudiated by every decent German. Hitler wanted to punish the Jews because he held them responsible for unleashing the war and for the bombing of the German population. ![]() These actions of the leader of the State against the Jews can be explained by the attitude toward the Jewish question, which was thoroughly different from mine. The prosecution neither offered nor submitted any proof of this assertion. "The prosecution had asserted that mass killings could not have been possible without Streicher and his Sturmer. Excerpts from Julius Streicher's final statement prior to sentencing: ![]()
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