The fact that Julius Streicher has been appointed by the Nazi Party to supervise the so-called campaign of reprisals against German Jewry is occasioning no less anxiety among Jews here than is the threatened campaign itself.
Julius Streicher is recalled as previously the leader of the local Nazi group in Nurenburg and editor of “Der Stuermer”, a Nazi paper published in Nurenburg, which has gained notoriety throughout Germany for its bestiality, its vile anti-Jewish denunciations and the lengths to which it has gone in besmirching the name of Jewry. Its columns, which have been described as a mess of pornography and slander, extending even to the charge of ritual murder against Jews, stand out even among the many Nazi newspapers, whose hands are far from clean, in this respect.
In November, 1929, Streicher was sentenced by a Nurenburg court to three and a half years’ imprisonment for spreading the ritual murder libel against Jews. The court based its decision at the time on the expert evidence of the Christian theologian, Professor Goettesberger of Munich. Streicher had declared that the Jewish code permitted murder.
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