Contents
Memorandum
by Gauleiter
Party Member Julius Streicher
Enclosure 1: First memorandum by Gauleiter Deputy, Party Member Karl Holz, with postscriptum.
Enclosure 2: Second memorandum by Gauleiter Deputy, Party Member Karl Holz, with postscriptum.
Appendix 1: Case Sandreuter
Appendix 2: Case Ritter
Appendix 3: Case J.M. Lang
MEMORANDUM
BY GAULEITER
PARTY MEMBER JULIUS STREICHER
Action against the Jews on 9/10 November 1938.
I was no longer present at the traditional fellowship congregation in the old town-hall in Munich on the evening of 9 November 1938 when a speaker, who claimed to have higher authority, made it known that the party was launching an action against the Jews during the night of 9/10 November 1938. I was informed of this fact by the party members Obergruppenfuehrer von Obernitz and Obergruppenfuehrer Litzmann around midnight of 9 November 1938. I declared to both these party members that I myself did not approve of an action involving arson of synagogues and destruction of goods but that I would raise no objections, of course, if this action had been sanctioned by the party. Therefore, what was done to the Jews during the night of 9/10 November 1938 happened without my direct or indirect assistance.
The consequences arising from the action against the Jews.
The action against the Jews of November 1938 was not a spontaneous one emanating from the population, and therefore was incomprehensible to many party members also as to its effects. Units of the components of the Party had been ordered to carry out the action against the Jews. If there is evidence now that in isolated cases party members with immaculate police records have appropriated goods during this action it should not be over-looked in judging such incidents that the appropriation was committed in an instant, where all goods were being destroyed in accordance with the orders given.