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Extracts from a speech, indentifying Jews as "the cause of all misfortune" and praising the law for the safeguarding of German blood and honor

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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

Voelkischer Beobachter

Date: 06 October 1935

Literal Title: Extract from the newspaper "Voelkischer Beobachter" . . . Safeguard of German Blood and German Honour.

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-34

Citation: IMT (page 2495)

HLSL Item No.: 452571

Notes:For the law on German blood and honor, see document PS 2000.

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"Voelkischer Beobachter" South-German edition, 279 edition— 48th year Sunday 6th October 1935.
Safeguard of German Blood and German Honour Gauleiter Streicher speaks at a DAF [German Labour Front] mass-demonstration, for the Nürnberg laws.
Berlin, 5th October
Gauleiter Julius Streicher spoke in Berlin on Friday for the second time within a few weeks. * * *
Often interrupted by tempestuous applause he laid down in effect: "If the misfortunes are to be removed from the world, they must be torn out by the roots; the cause of all misfortune in the world, is after all, due to one people, which for centuries has carried on disorder in all other lands. The Jew has understood how to camouflage himself to such an extent, that even today, in so-called educated circles, there are some who do not understand the Jewish question, and still speak of so-called "decent" Jews. We have therefore, to unmask the Jew, and that is what I have been doing for the past 15 years! (Tempestuous applause.)
If one realizes, the Gauleiter continued, what enormous injury to peoples' property is caused by bastards, one will understand, why National-Socialism on the day of the Reichsparteitag of freedom, has created the law for the safeguarding of German blood and German honour. Is it not our just right to protect the German woman? Just in that way do we justify the culture, which the Jews for the very same reason, dishonestly wish to deny to us. In 100 or 200 years time the German people will have become a new people, just because we have kept from it all strange and bad blood."

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