Thirty-First Day:
Thursday, January 10th, 1946
[Page 149]
I ask you once more, what is at stake to-day? The Jew
seeks domination not only among the German people but
among all peoples. The Communists pave the way for him.
Do you not know that the God of the Old Testament ordered
the Jews to devour and enslave the peoples of the earth?
The Government allows the Jew to do as he pleases. The
people expect action to be taken. You may think about
Adolf Hitler as you please, but one thing you must admit.
He possessed the courage to attempt to free the German
people from the Jew by a national revolution. That was
action indeed."
And one further passage from this period. This is April,
1932, M-14, taken from the same book. He starts by saying:
[Page 155]
The boycott was agreed on and approved of by the whole
Government, as was shown in a document which is already
before you, 2156-PS, Exhibit USA 262, which was Goebbels'
diary.
Streicher was appointed the chairman of the central
committee for the organisation of that boycott, which
appears in Document 2056-PS, Exhibit USA 263. It was then
said that he started his work on Wednesday the 29th.
On that same day the central committee issued a proclamation
in which it was said that the boycott would start on
Saturday, at 10 a.m. sharp. "Jewry will realise whom it has
challenged." That short quotation appears in Document 3387-
PS, which is Exhibit USA 566, which is a volume of "Der
Sturmer." In actual fact, it is a copy of "Der Sturmer"
which is already before the Court.
I would refer the Tribunal to one short passage from an
article in the "Nationalsocialistische Partei Korrepondenz,"
which the defendant wrote on 30th March, 1933, before the
boycott was due to start. It is Document 2153-PS, and it
appears on Page 12 of the Tribunal's book, which becomes
Exhibit GB 166. There he writes, under the title, "Defeat
the Enemy of the World! - by Julius Streicher, official
leader of the central committee to combat the Jewish
atrocity and boycott campaign":
National Socialists! Defeat the enemy of the world. Even
if the world is full of devils, we shall succeed in the
end."
The committee stressed that no violence was to be employed
against the Jews on the occasion of that boycott, but not
perhaps for humane reasons; it was because, if there were no
violence employed, then Jewish employers would have no
grounds for discharging their employees without notice, and
no grounds for refusing to pay them any wages.
The Jews were also reported to be apparently transferring
businesses to German figureheads in order to alleviate the
results of this persecution, and the committee laid it down
that any property so transferred was to be considered as
Jewish for the purpose of the boycott.
I do not think I need go into that any further. It does show
that at that date Streicher was taking a leading part, and a
leading part under Government appointment, in the
persecution of the Jews.
I would now refer the Court again to a few further extracts
to show the form that this propaganda developed as the years
went on. At Page 18 of the document book, Document M-20, we
have an article in the New Year's issue of a new paper that
he had just founded. It was a semi-medical paper called "The
People's Health Through Blood and Soil," edited by himself,
and it is an example of the really remarkable lengths to
which he went in putting over this propaganda against the
Jews. I quote:
[Page 156]
The next document, also at the beginning of 1935, an extract
from his own paper, "Der Sturmer," entitled "The Chosen
People of the Criminals" -
And, my Lord, I think it unnecessary to quote from the next
document in the Tribunal's book. It is very much the same
type of thing. On Page 22 of the document book, M-6, there
is a leading article by Streicher in his "Der Sturmer " of
which I would refer only to the last half of the last
paragraph, where again he emphasises the part that he
himself has taken in this campaign.
The next document - I only include it in the document book
again to show the extraordinary length to which he went in
his propaganda, and it consists of a
[Page 157]
And although it is not at all clear from that photograph, I
think the meaning of that comment is that the cloud of smoke
in the air is in the shape of a Jewish face.
On the next page, Document M-4, is a speech he made in
September, 1937, at the opening of a bridge in Nuremberg. I
would quote only the last paragraph on Page 24. The bridge
in question is called the Wilhelm Gustloff bridge, and he
says:
Look at the road the Jewish people have been following
for thousands of years past; everywhere murder,
everywhere mass murder. Neither must we forget that
behind present-day wars there stands the Jewish financier
who pursues his aims and interests. The Jew always lives
on the blood of other nations; he needs such murder and
such victims. For us who know, the murder of Wilhelm
Gustloff is the same as ritual murder."
Now the next two documents in your document books are simply
extracts from the correspondence columns of "Der Sturmer,"
showing again one of the methods he employed in this
propaganda. I do not need to read them. The correspondence
columns of all his issues are full of letters coming in from
Germans saying that, for instance, some German has been
buying her shoes from a Jewish shop and so on, and in that
way assisting in the general boycott of the Jews. In other
words, they really are a weekly column of libels against the
Jews all over Germany.
I pass then to another and particular form of propaganda
that he employed, and which he called "Ritual Murder." The
Tribunal may well remember that some years ago, I think it
started in 1934, this "Der Sturmer" began publishing
accounts of Jewish ritual murder which horrified the whole
world to such an extent that the Archbishop of Canterbury
eventually wrote to "The Times" protesting, as indeed did
people from every country in the world, protesting that any
Government should allow matter like this to be published in
its national newspapers.
He takes his ritual murder, I understand, from a medieval
belief that during their Eastertide celebrations the Jews
were in the habit of murdering Christian children, and he
enlarges upon this and misrepresents this belief, this
medieval belief, to show that not only did they do it in the
Middle Ages, but that they are still doing it and still want
to do it. And if I might just quote one or two passages from
his newspapers and show one or two pictures which he
published in connection with his campaign of ritual murder,
it will illustrate to the Court the type of teaching and
propaganda that he was putting up. One Page 29 of the
Tribunal's document book, I will quote from the third but
last paragraph:
[Page 158]
And on the following page of the document book there is a
reproduction of a photograph taken from the "Der Sturmer" of
April, 1937, which illustrates three Jews ritually murdering
a girl by cutting her throat, and shows the blood pouring
out into a bucket on the ground. The caption underneath that
photograph is as follows: "Ritual murder at Polna. Ritual
murder of Agnes Hruza by the Jews Hilsner, Erdmann and
Wassermann (taken from a contemporary postcard)." That is
Exhibit USA 258. It is in a copy of "Der Sturmer," which
has already been put in.
There appears in the next page of the document book an
extract from that same "Der Sturmer," April, 1937. I will
not read it now, because it has been put in and has all been
read to the Court. It describes what happens when ritual
murder takes place, and the blood is mixed with the bread
and drunk by the Jews having their feast. The Tribunal will
remember that during the feast the head of the family
exclaims, "May all gentiles perish - as the child whose
blood is contained in the bread and wine."
That is already Exhibit USA 258, and it has been read in the
transcript (Page 381, Part 2).
THE PRESIDENT: Would that be a good time to break off?
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL GRIFFITH-JONES: If your Lordship pleases.
(A recess was taken until 14.00 hours.)
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(Part 5 of 10)
[LIEUTENANT-COLONEL BALDWIN continues]
"We know that Germany will be free when the Jew has been
excluded from the life of the German people."
I pass to the next document, which is M-12, on Page 4. The
first document was Exhibit GB 165. That is the book, I
understand, that is being given that number, so that the
next document, which is taken from the same book, will be
the same. Perhaps I might be allowed to read that short
extract. It is an extract from a speech:
"I beg you, and particularly those of you who carry the
cross throughout the land, to become somewhat more
serious when I speak of the enemy of the German people,
namely, the Jew. Not out of irresponsibility or for fun
do I fight against the Jewish enemy, but because I bear
within me the knowledge that the whole misfortune was
brought to Germany by the Jews alone.
The next short extract appearing on the next page is taken
from a speech in April, 1925:
"You must realise that the Jew wants our people to
perish. That is why you must join us and leave those who
have brought you nothing but war and inflation and
discord. For thousands of years the Jew has been
destroying the nations."
I ask the Tribunal to note now these last few words:
"Let us make a new beginning so that we can annihilate
the Jews."
My Lord, so far as I have been able to find, that is the
earliest expression of annihilation of the Jewish race.
Perhaps it gave birth to what was, fourteen years later, to
become the official policy of the Nazi Government.
"For 13 years I have fought against Jewry."
I quote the last paragraph only:
"We know that the Jew, whether he is baptised as a
Protestant or as a Catholic, remains a Jew. Why can you
not realise this, you Protestant clergymen, you Catholic
priests, you who have scales before your eyes and serve
the God of the Jews, who is not the God of Love but the
God of Hate. Why do you not listen to Christ, who said to
the Jews: 'You are the children of the Devil'."
That, then, was the kind of performance he was putting up
during those early years. When the Nazi Party came to power,
they officially started their campaign against the Jews by
the boycott of 1st April, 1933. Now, of that
"Jewry wanted this battle. It shall have it until it
realises that the Germany of the brown battalions is not
a country of cowardice and surrender. Jewry will have to
fight until we have won victory.
As head of the central committee for that boycott, Streicher
outlined in detail the organisation of the boycott, in
orders which the committee published on the 31st March,
1933, which is the next document in the book, 2154-PS,
Exhibit GB 167. I can summarise those.
"It is established for all eternity: alien albumen is the
sperm of a man of alien race. The male sperm in
cohabitation is partially or completely absorbed by the
female, and thus enters her bloodstream. One single
cohabitation of a Jew with an Aryan woman is sufficient
to poison her blood for ever. Together with the alien
albumen she has absorbed the alien soul. Never again will
she be able to bear purely Aryan children,
That becomes, my Lord, Exhibit GB 168.
"And all the same, or, let us say, just because of this,
the history book of the Jews, which is usually called the
Holy Scriptures, impresses us as a horrible criminal
romance, which makes the 150 shilling-shockers of the
British Jew, Edgar Wallace, grow pale with envy. This
'holy' book abounds in murder, incest, fraud, theft and
indecency."
On the 4th of October, 1935 - and the Tribunal will remember
that that was the month after the Nuremberg Decrees had been
made - he made a speech which is reported in the "Volkischer
Beobachter" and is entitled in that newspaper, "Safeguard of
German Blood and German Honour." I read the report in that
article:
"Gauleiter Streicher speaks at a German Labour Front mass
demonstration for the Nuremberg Laws."
Then the first line of the actual article says that he spoke
for the second time within a few weeks. I quote only the
last two lines of that first large paragraph:
"We have therefore to unmask the Jew, and that is what I
have been doing for the past fifteen years."
That remark apparently was met with tempestuous applause.
That Document M-34 becomes Exhibit GB 169.
"'Der Sturmer's' fifteen years of work of enlightenment
has already led an army of those who know - millions
strong - to National Socialism. The continued work of
'Der Sturmer' will help to ensure that every German down
to the last man will, with heart and hand, join the ranks
of those whose aim it is to crush the head of the serpent
Pan-Juda beneath their heels. He who helps to bring this
about helps to eliminate the devil, and this devil is the
Jew."
That document becomes Exhibit GB 170.
"The man who murdered Wilhelm Gustloff had to come from
the Jewish people, because the Jewish text books teach
that every Jew has the right to kill a non-Jew, and
indeed, that it is pleasing to the Jewish God to kill as
many non-Jews as possible.
And then on the next page:
"We must tell our children that it is the duty of German
children at school, and the bigger ones, to learn what
this memorial means."
I go to the next paragraph:
"The Jew no longer shows himself among us openly as he
used to. But it would be wrong to say that victory is
ours. Full and final victory will have been achieved only
when the whole world has been rid of Jews."
That becomes Exhibit GB 171.
"This the French front-line soldier should take with him
to France: The German people have taken a new lease of
life. They want peace, but if anybody tries to attack
them, if anyone tries to torture them again, if anyone
tries to push them back into the past, then the world
would see another heroic epic; then Heaven will decide
where righteousness lies here, or where the Jew has the
whip hand and where he instigates massacres, one could
almost say the biggest ritual murders of all times. If
the German people are to be slaughtered according to the
Jewish rites, the whole world will be thus slaughtered
at the same time."
And the last paragraph:
"As you have drummed morning and evening prayers into
your children's heads, so now drum this into their
heads, so that the German people may gain the spiritual
power to convince the rest of the world which the Jews
desire to lead against us."
That document is M-2, Exhibit GB 172.