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JII!IIblli!Illi llil?illillllffiillillill Nazi Editor of the Notorious Anti-Semitic Newspaper Der Sturmer Randall L. Bytwerk by with a new afterword Eer Square Press First Cooper Square Press Edition 2001 This Cooper Square Press paperback edition of Julius Streicher is an unabridged republication of the edition published in New York in 1983, with fifty textual emendations and the addition of a new afterword by the author. It is reprinted by arrangement with the author. Copyright© 1983 by Randall L. Bytwerk New afterword copyright© 2001 by Randall L. Bytwerk All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. Published by Cooper Square Press An Imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 150 Fifth Avenue, Suite 817 New York, New ¥ork 10011 Distributed by National Book Network Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bytwerk, Randall L. Julius Streicher :Nazi Editor of the notorious anti-Semitic newspaper Der Sttlrmer I Randall L. Bytwerk.-1 st Cooper Square Press ed. p. em. Originally published: New York: Stein and Day, 1983. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 978-0-8154-1156-7 I. Antisemitism-Germany. 2. Streicher, Julius, 1885-1946. 3. Stermer. 4. Germany Ethnic relations. I. Title. DS146.G4 898 2001 305.892'4043-dc21 2001028990 8"" The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSUNISO Z39.48-1992. Manufactured in the United States of America. TO Sharon Van Haitsrna Bytwerk, "Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight" Julius Streicher (far left) and Adolf Hitler at the 1927 Nuremberg Rally. Contents Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix I: The Making of an Anti-Semite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II: The Bloody Czar of Franconia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 III: Der Sturmer: "A Fierce and Filthy Rag" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 IV: The German Anti-Semitic Tradition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 V: Children of the Devil: Streicher's Image of the Jew ....... 101 VI: Fraud, Conspiracy, and Murder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 VII: The Worst Crime: Racial Defilement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 VIII: Solutions: Final and Otherwise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 IX: A Poisoned Nation: The Impact of Der Sturmer . . . . . . . . . 171 X: The lllusion of Immunity .......................... 183 Afterword to the Cooper Square Press Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 Appendix I: Three Sturmer Articles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Appendix II: Two Children's Stories from The Poisonous Mushroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Notes ............................................ 221 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 Index ............................................. 243 Illustrations between pages 77 and 100 Preface Why did the Germans kill six million Jews? There are dozens of books on what one might call the technology of the Holocaust, the operation of the death camps, but far fewer on the forces that led a civilized nation to commit, condone, or ignore genocide. Most Ger mans, of course, had no part in the death camps, indeed did not know that Jews were being annihilated by the millions. Yet almost all Germans had seen the intensifying persecution of the Jews that began in 1933. Few Germans had protested. Few Germans had been inter ested in knowing where all the Jews had gone. This book looks at part of what persuaded Germans to stand by while their Jewish fellow citizens were persecuted-the anti-Semitic propaganda of Julius Streicher, "World Jew-baiter No. 1," the most vicious and prolific of the Nazi anti-Semites. Streicher and his like did not persuade all or even most Germans to hate Jews. But they did establish an attitude of indifference toward Jews without which the Holocaust could not have occurred. I owe thanks to many people who have helped me to write this book. Professor Robert D. Brooks first interested me in the subject and has given much help over the years. Professor David Zarefsky had valuable advice. Northwestern University and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale gave travel support. My colleagues of the Department of Speech Communication at SIU made my work easier by their example and good cheer. The book was finished during a sabbatical semester provided by Southern Illinois University. Librarians and archivists have made their usual quiet but essential contributions. I owe particular thanks to the splendid staff at the Wiener Library, and to the late Dr. Arnd Muller of Nuremberg, whose guide to the Stiirmerarchiv saved me much work. The Hoover Institution at Stanford University provided many ofthe illustrations. Jim Jennings helped out with photography. The editors of the Wiener Library Bulletin and Journalism History gave permission to incorporate material into this book that originally appeared in their journals, and the editor of the Christian Vanguard allowed me to use material from his newspaper. Jiilllbiiilllli llilYillillii~IIIillill

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The Nazis put a remarkable amount of effort into anti-Semitic propaganda, intending to bring ordinary Germans around to the destructive ideology of the Nazi party. Julius Streicher (1885-1946) spearheaded many of these efforts, publishing anti-Semitic articles and cartoons in his weekly newspaper, D
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