At the beginning of 1935, the following extract, entitled “The Chosen People of the Criminals,” appeared in “Der Stuermer”:
“* * * and all the same, or, let us say, just because of this, the history book of the Jews, which is usually called the Holy Scriptures, impresses us as a horrible criminal romance, which makes the 150 penny-dreadfuls of the British Jew, Edgar Wallace, go green with envy. This ‘holy’ book abounds in murder, incest, fraud, theft, and indecency.” (2697-PS).
In a speech on 4 October 1935 (the month following the proclamation of the Nurnberg Decrees) Streicher made a speech which is reported in the Voelkischer Beobachter and is entitled in that newspaper “Safeguard of German Blood and German Honor.” The report in that article reads in part:
“Gauleiter Streicher speaks at a German Labor Front mass demonstration for the Nurnberg laws.”
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“We have therefore, to unmask the Jew, and that is what I have been doing for the past fifteen years.” (M-34).
In a leading article in “Der Stuermer” Streicher again emphasized the part which he himself had taken in this campaign:
“The ‘Stuermer’s’ 15 years of work of enlightenment has already led an army of those who know—millions strong—to National Socialism. The continued work of the ‘Stuermer’ will help to ensure that every German down to the last man will, with heart and hand, join the ranks of those whose aim it is to crush the head of the serpent Pan-Juda beneath their heels. He who helps to bring this about helps to eliminate the devil, and this devil is the Jew.” (M-6).
The extraordinary length to which Streicher went in his propaganda is illustrated by the publication in “Der Stuermer” of a photograph of the burning hull of the airship “Hindenburg,” which caught fire in June 1937 in America. The caption beneath the picture includes the comment:
“The first radio picture from the United States of America shows quite clearly that a Jew stands behind the explosion of our airship Hindenburg. Nature has depicted clearly and quite correctly that devil in human guise.”