Julius Streicher, Governor of Franconia and Germany’s No. 1 Jew-baiter, is enjoying the best of health on his farm near Nuremberg, according to a statement by German authorities quoted in an Associated Press dispatch from Berlin today.
The statement was in reply to a Reuters (British news agency) report in which a well-informed German source claimed Streicher was dead.
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