“Dear Stürmer!
“Gau Leader Streicher has told us so much about the Jews that we hate them quite thoroughly. In school we wrote a composition under the title ‘The Jews are our Misfortune.’ I should like to see my composition in print.
“The Jews Are Our Misfortune
“Regrettably, there are still many people today who say: Even the Jews are creatures of God. Therefore you must respect them. But we say: Vermin are animals too, but we exterminate them just the same. The Jew is a mongrel. He has hereditary tendencies from Aryans, Asiatics, Negroes, and from the Mongolians. Evil always preponderates in the case of a mongrel. The only good thing the Jew has is his white color…. Jesus once said to the Jews, ‘Your father is not God but the Devil.’ The Jews have a wicked book of law. That is the Talmud. Furthermore, the Jews see the animal in us and treat us accordingly. They take away our property and our money with great cunning. In Gelsenkirchen, the Jew Grünberg sold us offal. They are allowed to do this, according to their book of law. The Jews instigated uprisings and urged us into War. They led Russia into misery. In Germany they gave the K.P.D. (Communist Party of Germany) money and paid all the murderers. We were standing at the edge of our grave. Then Adolf Hitler came. Now the Jews are in foreign countries and instigate everyone against us. But we are not to be led astray: we follow the Führer. We buy nothing from Jews. Every penny we give them kills one of our people.
“Heil Hitler!”
And, in a postscript, the Stürmer: “Like us, all readers of the Stürmer will rejoice at what Erna has to say in her school composition. The Stürmer has given Erna a little Christmas present.” For her “deeply Christian” composition!
Another child, nine-year-old Helga Gerbing, sends a letter dated Lenzing 29 (no one outside of Germany knows what the Nazi word for the month of May means, except that “Lenz” is a medieval word for spring). Helga encloses a composition, in the name of the Fourth Grade for girls, entitled The Cuckoo and the Jew.
“The cuckoo is the Jew among birds; for it is very like him in appearance and also in what it does. Its hooked beak reminds one of the hooked nose of the Jew. Its feet are small and weak, which is why it cannot walk easily on the ground.” (Note: As we know, the German eagle has an Aryan nose and marches like a champion!) “The same is true of the Jew, who also does not have a beautiful manner of walking. When this bird calls ‘Cuckoo! Cuckoo!’ It makes the same gesture as the Jewish merchant trying to show his politeness, so that the German shall buy from him. Both these Jews, the bird as well as the human one, are parasites, that is, they both desire to become rich and fat at the expense of others…. But we human beings are not so stupid as the birds. We won’t stand for this and we are expelling the impertinent ‘cuckoo’ from our country. We children in Roth help as much as we can toward this end. A number of our class often keep standing by the Baer warehouse; then when buyers wish to enter, the children call: ‘Aren’t you ashamed to buy from a Jew? Yah!’ and then the woman gets red in the face and goes away again.
“Heil Hitler!”
“Well, Stürmer, that pleases you, doesn’t it?” Helga adds. And it does. “Like teacher, like pupil,” the paper comments. “If little Helga of the Fourth Class for Girls, in Roth near Nuremberg, writes such excellent compositions, then we have her teacher, Hilde Palmedo, to thank, because she knows how to educate the young in the spirit of these new times.”