The new circulation campaign of Julius Streicher’s weekly, Der Stuermer, self-described as “the greatest anti-Semitic weekly in the world,” is bearing fruit in the fertile Nuremberg area over which Streicher, by virtue of his position in the Nazi party and as member of the Bavarian cabinet, is virtual dictator and overlord.
A Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent who returned today from a special tour through the Nuremberg area found gigantic placards posted on all available wall space throughout the old cathedral city announcing the “startling revelations” of a Jewish murder plot directed against Hitler.
Facing the railroad station on all sides the posters attracted much comment among visitors and has had the effect on Franconian Nazis of stirring them to the high pitch noticeable just before the violent outbreaks against the Jews in Gunzenbausen and other points last month.
Der Stuermer’s latest advertising of its sensational May 1 issue announces that twenty pages will be devoted to the paper’s “expose” of Jewish ritual murder guilt and that it will include fourteen pictures of alleged ritual murders.
THE RITUAL MURDER CABAL
“This ritual murder number brings the most basic and most comprehensive proof that the murder of Adolf Hitler was decided upon by the Jews in kahal (meeting of Jewish leaders)” the new advertisements proclaim.
“This ritual murder number the paper claims, “is the worst blow ever struck against world Jewry. It will excite vast attention all over the Germany and abroad.”
The necessity for this type of propaganda, even in Franconia where anti-Semitism, thanks to Streicher and his years of incessant agitation, is most pronounced, is seen in that, despite repeated warnings and threats, large sections of the population continue to patronize Jewish stores and shops.
This state of affairs exists, curiously enough, although many of the residents here have put up the stereotyped notices in their windows, “The Jew is our enemy.” This they do in conformity with the orders of the local Nazi leaders as the easiest way to keep out of trouble and to avoid the accustion of being anti-Hitler.
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