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Streicher Admits Destruction of Nuremberg Synagogue; Repeats Anti-semitic Slanders

April 30, 1946
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Calmly admitting that he had ordered the destruction of Nuremberg’s main synagogue during the Nov., 1938 pogroms, because it was “architecturally offensive,” Julius Streicher today continued his defense before the International Military Tribunal.

Streicher produced an uproar in the court on several occasions when he rebuked his counsel for failing to introduce anti-Semitic documents, which, he charged, would support his charges of Jewish ritual murders. He denied that he had persuaded Hitler to order the extermination of Jews, asserting that Hitler could not be influenced.

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