Disgust with Julius Streicher’s Nuremburg weekly, Der Stuermer, was expressed yesterday in the London press, which summarizes Der Stuermer’s stories in this week’s special edition devoted to ritual murder charges against the Jews.
The German government had forbidden export of copies of this edition of the Stuermer, on the front page of which, in red letters an inch high, there is an account of the “Discovery of a Jewish Murder Plan Against Non-Jewish Humanity.” A picture of two villainous-looking Jews, one holding a sacrificial knife and the other a plate into which blood is dripping from the throats of eight blonde women and children, shown with their heads hanging down, accompanies the article.
“RITUAL MURDER” LIST
The Stuermer, in another article entitled “Murder People,” gives extracts, supposedly from the Talmud, setting forth eleven incidents of the “bloody history of Judah.”
An alleged ritual murder list occupying eight pages is accompained by a photograph of a small boy named Karl Kessler, “slaughtered March 17, 1929, near Manau shortly before the Jewish Passover.”
A hundred and thirty-one “recorded ritual murders” are summarized in the pages of the Stuermer, the list ending with an account of the “murder” of a woman near Paderborn on March 18, 1932.
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