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Extract from a speech on Jews as a threat, calling for "a new beginning today so that we can annihilate the Jew"

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Julius Streicher (publisher, propagandist)

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Julius Streicher

German publisher, Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1885-1946)

Julius Streicher durant els Judicis de Nuremberg
  • Born: 1885-02-12 (Fleinhausen)
  • Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: journalist; politician; publisher
  • Member of political party: German Socialist Party; Nazi Party
  • Member of: Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund
  • Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch
  • Position held: member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany; member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic

Date: 03 April 1925

Literal Title: Streicher's Speech in Nurnberg, 3 April 1925.

Defendant: Julius Streicher

Total Pages: 1

Language of Text: English

Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)

Evidence Code: M-13

Citation: IMT (page 2490)

HLSL Item No.: 452556

Trial Issues

Persecution of political, religious, and ethnic ("racial") groups (IMT, NM… Extermination of the Jews (IMT, NMT 4, 9)

STREICHER'S SPEECH IN NÜRNBERG, 3 April 1925 Taken from "Kampf dem Weltfeind," p. 42
"You 'must realize that the Jew wants our people to perish. That is why you must join us and leave those who have brought you nothing but war inflation and discord. For thousands of years the Jew has been destroying the nations. Let us make a new beginning today so that we can annihilate the Jew."

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