The Bulletin’s Day Book

Posters, flowing with brilliant red ink, have been appearing throughout the Reich, announcing startling disclosures of horrendous Jewish plots against Hitler to be published in the May Day issue of Dr. Julius Streicher’s weekly sheet, the storming Der Stuermer.

The paper, which flaunts the boast under its masthead that it is the “greatest anti-Semitic newspaper in the world,” has promised to expose the naughty Jews who had been planning to assassinate Adolf Hitler. The posters announce too, that revelations of the intimate secrets of Jewish ritual murders and Jewish secret laws will be published to regale gullible readers of Streicher’s organ.

Dr. Streicher, Jew baiter and pornographer extraordinary, has long been a hero in Naziland for his attacks on the “non-Aryans.” Ever since his sentence to two months in jail in November, 1929, for having published anti-Jewish libels, based on misquotations from the Talmud, in his Stormer, he has been regarded as a martyr to the holy cause of Jew-hating.

For that reason, it is interesting to remember that only a few months ago he told Pat McGrady, then in Germany, that he had nothing at all against the Jews personally. He even recounted an incident as proof of his great friendship for the Jews.

One day several years ago, said the good Doctor, a “non-Aryan” had the astounding temerity to attack a Nazi Storm Trooper in the street. The reason for the attack has been lost to historians, but even the most militant pro-Nazi will admit that the Jew’s life wasn’t worth very much when once the mob had its hands on him. Dr. Streicher, who happened to be present, waded through the crowd, like the American marines in the nickelodeon movies, and saved the man’s life. He even took the Jew to his home, and had his wounds nursed.

Thus did Herr Streicher tell of his love–purely personal, of course–for the Jews. And then he went on to tell of the reason for his (purely personal) hatred for them. The Jews, he believes, are too smart. For he has another story to tell.

One day, Herr Streicher decided that he needed some furniture. He didn’t have the wherewithal to pay in full for the dining-room sets and bedroom sets and all the other sets. This was, you see, before poor Deputy Streicher had become “Political Commissioner of the Bavarian State Government.” So he went to a Jewish firm–yes, Julius Streicher went to a Jewish firm– and bought the furniture on the installment plan.

After the furniture came to his home, Streicher amused himself by carving his initials on all the various pieces of furniture he had bought (on the installment plan). Thus, all the world could see that these dining-room and bedroom sets and all the other sets belonged to him, J. S., pornographer, initial-carver and political commissioner.

But alas! evil days fell upon the Streicher fortunes. He had not yet become political commissioner. It became more and more difficult to make the regular payments. So Herr Streicher had to return his furniture, initials and all, to the Jewish firm from which he had deigned to receive credit.

Came the day when Jew-baiting was a profitable undertaking. Came, too, jingling of coin in Herr Streicher’s hitherto lean purse. And back trekked Streicher to purchase–for straight cash–a new batch of dining-room sets and bedroom sets and all the other sets. From the same Jewish firm the furniture came, all shiny and clean-looking in their newness. Herr Streicher was very pleased with his new furniture.

A few days later, after he had arranged the furniture very neatly in the correct places, Streicher noticed something. He looked closely. Yes, there on each piece furniture that he had bought–strictly for cash–were the initials J. S!

And that may be one of the chief reasons for the Jew-baiting orgy to be presented in the May Day issue of his official organ, the Stormer. For him, perhaps, the Jewish plot against Hitler is simply the direct result of the Jewish plot (strictly for cash) against Streicher.