Cell 258 in the Nuremberg jail has been created a Nazi shrine. A tablet was unveiled at the door and the cell will hereafter remain unoccupied.
The reason for the special attention is that in 1926 Julius Streicher, Germany’s arch anti-Semite, was imprisoned there for three-and-a half months.
Attorney-General Doebig announced in connection with the celebration of Streicher’s fifty-first birthday, which occurred on Wednesday, that the cell would be decorated with his portrait “in recognition of the man who was responsible for the Nuremberg laws.”
Doebig said the portrait would remain hanging “forever” and that the tablet would serve as “a reminder of the necessity for fighting the Jews.”
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