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Stuermer Demands Life Imprisonment for “race Defilement”

August 27, 1937
See Original Daily Bulletin From This Date

LIVE IMPRISONMENT FOR JEWS WHO “SOIL THE RACE” WAS DEMANDED BY DER STUERMER, ORGAN OF JULIUS STREICHER, THE HAVAS NEWS AGENCY REPORTED TODAY.

THE NEWSPAPER CALLED ON THE THIRD REICH’S LEGISLATORS TO TAKE SWIFTEST POSSIBLE MEASURES TOWARD THIS END, COMPLAINING THAT THE NUREMBERG LAWS HAD PROVED INADEQUATE TO WIPE OUT “RACE SOILING.”

“SO LONG AS A JEW REMAINS AMONG US, THE JEWS WILL CONTINUE TO BE RACE SOILERS,” DER STUERMER SAID. ” THE JEW IS A DEMON. TOWARD A DEMON IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO BE TOO SEVERE. THE ONLY WAY IS TO KEEP HIM IN PRISON ALL HIS LIFE.

THE NEWSPAPER ALSO ASKED THE GOVERNMENT TO CASHIER JUDGES WHO, BY SHOWING THEMSELVES “TOO INDULGENT TOWARD JEW RACE SOILERS,” PROVE ” THEY DO NOT YET UNDERSTAND THE JEW QUESTION,” AND THEREFORE ” WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO BECOME NATIONAL SOCIALISTS.”

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