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Extract from a letter in Der Stuermer, calling for the "ruthless destruction" of "the Jewish pest"

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Recknagel (letter in Der Stuermer (1940))

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Stuermer, Der (Streicher periodical)

Date: February 1940

Literal Title: From a letter in Der Sturmer No. 5. February 1940.

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-144

HLSL Item No.: 452613

Notes:The exhibit number is given in document D 839.

Trial Issues

Education, propaganda, and youth programs (IMT) Extermination of the Jews (IMT, NMT 4, 9)

From a letter in "DER STURMER"
No. 5. February 1940.
The Jews were for Poland, in the literal sense of the word, a Pest; swarms of locusts, as described in the Old Testament, couldn't have ravaged the country more terribly than these parasites from the banks of the Jordan. Yet, just as there exists only one effective way of dealing with swarms of locusts—namely, by exterminating them . completely—there only exists one way of combatting the Jewish pest, too: ruthless destruction. Heil Hitler.
[Signed] Uffz. Recknagel.

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