Julius
Streicher
(1885-1946)
Julius Streicher was born on February 12, 1885, in Fleinhausen, Germany, Julius Streicher was the ninth child of a
Roman Catholic school teacher. He worshiped his mother, who he later called, „the
fortress of my childhood.“ At the age of 13, he entered a training institute to
become a teacher. After a five- year course, Streicher began teaching
elementary school children in January, 1904. By 1912, he joined the Democratic
Party and addressed their meetings in Nuremberg. He was a gifted orator and
quickly became very popular, receiving warm applause wherever he spoke.In 1913,
Streicher married Kunigunde Roth. Lothar, their first son, was born in 1915. He
would later write for Der Sturmer. A second son, Elmar followed in 1918.
World War One broke out in 1914 and Streicher enlisted in the infantry. He
saw heavy front- line fighting in France. Streicher sought out dangerous
missions and carried a crucial message though heavy enemy fire which prevented
an encirclement. For this, he became the first man in his company to win the
Iron Cross. He then was selected as a member of the elite Mountain Machine Gun
Detachment and was later accepted as an officer candidate. As a First
Lieutenant, he fought bravely on the Romanian and Italian fronts.At the time of
the Armistice in November, 1918, Streicher was back serving again on the French
front, winning the coveted Iron Cross First Class.After the war Streicher
returned to his old teaching position.
After his return to treaching , Streicher was given his first copy of
the Protocols of The Learned Elders of Zion.Streicher began speaking on
these new revelations .In 1919 Streicher helped to establish the
Nuremberg German Socialist Party, an anti-Semitic organization.In 1921Streicher
launched the Deutscher Volkswille, it became the voice of the party. In 1922
Streicher joined the NSDAP and shortly thereafter handed his own party over to
Hitler.
On April 20, 1923, the first copy of Der Stürmer („The Attacker“) was
published. The first few editions of the Nazi weekly lacked many of the central
elements that were to make Der Stürmer so popular and so notorious; they
consisted of four small pages, focused on Julius Streicher’s (the paper’s
founder and editor) political enemies (rather than against Jews), offered few
if any cartoons, and carried only a few ads. But Der Stürmer already had a
circulation of several thousand when it was forced to take a four month hiatus,
beginning in November 1923.
Streicher was a player in Hitler’s abortive attempt to seize power from the
Bavarian government during the Munich Putsch of November 9, 1923. Streicher was
made „Director of Propaganda“ and drove around Munich, speaking to street
corner crowds, announcing the revolution. Streicher marched with Hitler,
Himmler and General Erich Ludendorff through Munich to the Feldherrnhalle
monument, when police opened fire. Sixteen marchers were killed, dozens,
including Hermann Goering, were seriously wounded and the rest scattered. The „Beer
Hall Putsch“ had been quashed.Hitler was imprisoned at Landsberg for 14 months.
Streicher was luckier, receiving one month in jail. Streicher lost his teaching
job but due to his good record, was granted a pension at the age of 39.
Upon Streicher’s release, the paper was again published, beginning in March
1924. Only a month later, Der Stürmer published its first cartoon directed
against Jews. Streicher began an incessant, running battle with the
Establishment, extending through the Third Reich era. Editions of his paper
were banned or seized thirty times between 1923 and 1933 and in one eleven-day
period, he was hit with five lawsuits. He served a total of eight months in
prison for defying court orders to cease distribution of banned issues of Der Sturmer.
He was elected to parliament on April 6, 1924 and in the fall of 1924, he ran
for the Nuremberg City Council and won. He held two elected positions
simultaneously.That drawings all come up for
newspaper, they take up to December 19 1925 small parts. In this day first
cartoon Philippe Rupprecht, pen name „Fips“ is published in newspaper.
The Rupprecht’s Cartoons contain the satyr to anti-semitic themes.It drew the
jews with enormous hooked noses, releaseded eyes, unshaven, short and thick. It
often express them in the manner of parasites, snake and spiders. Rupprecht’s
Well drew the feminine forms denuded or half-naked. The Aryan women on
such cartoons emerge as victims of jews.
In 1927 circulation was only 14,000 copies. By
1933 it rose to 25,000 in 1934, 113,800 and jumped to two million by 1940. By
then, some 300 people worked for Der Sturmer including one Jew named Jonas
Wolk. The Goring report noted that Wolk was paid a „good salary“ and wrote some
of the paper’s most anti-Jewish articles. It was now a publication of
international prominence and one most feared by the Jews. By 1941 Der Sturmer
had opened branch offices in Vienna, Prague and Strasbourg and in Denmark an
edition was launched.
Goring, Himmler, Hess and others
sought to have Der Sturmer banned as being „too anti-Semitic and an
embarrassment. Despite the efforts of these influcencial Nazis, Hitler usually
sided with his old party comrade Streicher. He once defended Streicher saying, „If
I let Streicher fall and banned the Sturmer, world Jewry would howl with glee.
I will not give them the pleasure.“Goring, Hess and the others demanded that
Hitler take action to silence Streicher. Hitler did take firmer action to
silence Streicher. Hitler ordered him to „retire“ to his country estate outside
Nuremberg. He also forbade him from speaking at party meetings.
Streicher’s wife died in 1943. Several weeks before the war’s end, he
married his life-long secretary Adele. They then fled their home to the alps
before the advancing U.S. Army. On May 23, 1945, a Jewish U.S. Army Major Plitt
recognized Streicher and took him into custody.
The only newspaper in Germany,
yes, in the whole world, which often screams the accusation of ritual murder
into the Jewish face, is Der Stürmer. For more than ten years Der Stürmer has
led a gigantic battle against Judaism. This has caused Der Stürmer to be under
constant attack by the Jews. Dozens of times it has been confiscated and
prohibited. Its workers and, most of all, its editor, Julius Streicher, have
been dragged into court hundreds of times. They were convicted, punished and
locked into prisons. Der Stürmer has come to know the Jew from the confession
which Dr. Conrad Alberti-Sittenfeld, a Jew, wrote in 1899 in No. 12 of the
magazine Gesellschaft:
“One of the most dangerous Jewish
qualities is the brutal, direct barbaric intolerance. A worse tyranny cannot be
practiced than that which the Jewish clique practices. If you try to move
against this Jewish clique, they will, without hesitating, use brutal methods
to overcome you. Mainly the Jew tries to destroy his enemy in the mental area,
by which he takes his material gain away, and undermines his civil existence.
The vilest of all forms of retaliation, the boycott, is characteristically
Jewish.”
Der Stürmer has not been
stopped. Just in Nuremberg alone there have been fought dozens of Talmudic and
ritual murder cases in the courts. Because of the Jewish protests the attention
of the whole world was focused on these cases. Thereafter heavy convictions followed.
At first no judge had the guts to expose the Jewish problem. Finally, in 1931
(a court case lasting from Oct. 30th to Nov. 4th) Der Stürmer won its first
victory. The jury found the following:
1. Der
Stürmer is not fighting against the Jewish religion; but against the Jewish
race.
2. The
Talmud and Schulchan Aruch are not religious books. They have no right to be
protected under the religious statutes.
3. The
laws of the Talmud, which are quoted and published in Der Stürmer are exact
quotations from the Talmud.
4. The laws of the Talmud are in harsh
contradiction to German morals.
5. The Jews of today are being taught
from the Talmud.
With this verdict Der Stürmer
brought about the first big breech in the Jewish-Roman Administration of
justice, which was given the job before the National Socialist Revolution to
protect Judaism and its government. The Jews, of course, became greatly
agitated about it all. But for Der Stürmer this success was an omen of the
victory yet to come. Of course, Der Stürmer does not stop half way. It knows
what must be done. It is our duty to frustrate the gigantic murder plot of
Judaism against humanity! It is our duty to brand this nation before the whole
world, to uncover its crimes and to render it harmless! It is our duty to free
the world from this national pest and parasitic race!
Der Stürmer will fulfill its
mission. It will light up the darkness with the truth that shall rule the
world. And it will always direct itself according to the following proverb: „He
who knows the truth and does not speak it truly is a miserable creature.”
1. Jews concentrate in certain
occupations such as doctors, lawyers, money-lenders, merchants, entertainers,
etc. Thus they gain a disproportionate share of the wealth. They control the
large monopoly department stores thus putting the independent Gentiles out of
business.
2. Jews pay low wages often forcing poor
workers into crime and some women into part-time prostitution.
3. Jews are not true creators of wealth.
They avoid physical labor and are rarely farmers, masons, factory workers, etc.
Their religion teaches that it is shameful.
4. Jews hate Jesus Christ but have turned
His birthday int a source of great profits. As Rabbi Jacob Wise said: „It is
better to have Christmas than smallpox. Besides, if the crucified one had a
brother born in the summertime it would have given us two such profitable
holidays.“
5. Jews exploit sex for financial gain
through their control of the theater and publications.
6. Jews are parasites who secretly gain
wealth by exploiting the unwary host people.
7. Jews gain power by first pleading for „tolerance
and brotherhood.“ They coddle political leaders of a nation by making
themselves useful - ingratiating themselves until they become the power behind
the throne.
8. Jews give to charities in order to
gain respectability.
9. Even if a Jew undergoes Christian
Baptism he remains a Jew because they are a race.
10. Jews concentrate themselves in the
large cities where they promote socialism and decadence.
Julius Streicher’s favorite saying:
„He who knows
the truth and does not speak it is a miserable coward.“
Streicher’s wife died in 1943. Several weeks before the war’s end, he
married his life-long secretary Adele. They then fled their home before the
advancing U.S. Army. On May 23, 1945, a Jewish U.S. Army Major Plitt recognized
Streicher and took him into custody. He was hailed as a hero and flown back to
New York City where an official „Major Plaid Day“ was declared. Jews celebrated
in the streets, cheering the arrest of the man they called, „The World’s No. 1
Jew Baiter.“
Streicher passed a note to his lawyer, Dr. Hans Marx, describing how Jews
and Negroes had tortured him in his cell. A photograph backed up his charges,
showing him standing naked with black and blue marks and a sign around his neck
proclaiming, „Julius Streicher, King of the Jews.“
The note read:
„Two niggers undressed me and tore my
shirt in two. I kept only my pants. Being handcuffed, I could not pull them up
when they fell down. So now I was naked. Four days! On the fourth day, I was so
cold that my body was numb. I couldn’t hear anything. Every 2 - 4 hours (even
in the night!) Niggers came along under command of a White man and hammered at
me. Cigarette burns on the nipples. Fingers gouged into eye-sockets. Eyebrows
and chest hair pulled out. Genitals beaten with an oxwhip. Testicles very
swollen. Spat at. „Mouth open“ and was spat into. When I refused to open, my
jaws were pried apart with a stick and my mouth spat into. Beaten with a whip -
swollen, dark-blue whelps all over the body... Photographed naked! Jeered at
wearing an old army greatcoat which they hung round me.“
When Her Marx protested the mistreatment of Streicher to the court, the
inquisitors erupted with outrage. They immediately ordered that the motion be
struck from the trial record as „highly improper.“ Streicher twice brought up
his being tortured and rather than ask for an investigation, the judges ordered
his statements deleted from the record. They held him in contempt of court for
even revealing the matter.
Telford Taylor, a member of the U.S. prosecution staff at the trials,
published his The anatomy of The Nuremberg Trials in 1992. In
this 700-page book, he writes that many among the prosecution staff questioned
the legality of trying Streicher because he was a publisher of a
privately owned newspaper not connected with the government. Streicher had
nothing to do with military decisions and had been a political nonentity since
1940. He had been an important force in sowing the seeds of anti-Semitism but
was that an international crime?“
British prosecutor Sir. Hartley Shawcross is quoted by Taylor as
stating:
„I and many others thought Streicher’s
case was the most debatable.“
Taylor
further stated that the Streicher case presented the court with their most
serious problem because „there was no accusation that Streicher himself
had participated in any violence against Jews.“ During Streicher’s
two-day cross-examination, he was questioned only about articles and cartoons
from Der Sturmer!
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