Der Stuermer, the newspaper published at Nuremberg by Julius Streicher, one of the most notorious anti-Semitic leaders in Germany, marked the occasion of Christmas, the traditional season of “peace on earth, good-will to men,” with a vicious attack on the Jews of Germany which called on all Aryans to refrain from purchasing from “Jesus’s murderers.”
In its Christmas Eve issue, the paper which has been barred from circulating abroad as part of the plan to silence foreign criticism by preventing the circulation of matter on which it could be based, addresses a proclamation to “all Christians”.
“You Christians,” it declaimed, “all go to church, even today, and cry at the terrible end at Golgotha (scene of the crucifixion). You wish to be associated in spirit with the crucified” Jesus. Nevertheless, you pass by Christian stores to make Christmas purchases from Jesus’s murderers.”
In the same issue the Streicher organ, which is now the most violent anti-Semitic publication in the Reich, features a list of concerns controlled by Aryans which have been engaged in litigation in recent months and employed Jewish counsel to represent them. Because these firms made use of the Jewish attorneys who because of their war records have been permitted to resume practice, Der Stuermer exhorts its readers to boycott the concerns.
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