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Julius Streicher (12 February 1885 – 16 October 1946) was a member of the Nazi Party, the Gauleiter (regional leader) of Franconia and a member of the Reichstag, the national legislature.
Streicher was a leading organizer of Nazi Germany's first official nationwide boycott of Jewish businesses in April 1933. Although Streicher had lost credibility in party circles by 1940, he continued to edit and distribute his antisemitic propaganda newspaper to hundreds of thousands of Germans.
Jun 6, 2024 · Julius Streicher (born February 22, 1885, Fleinhausen, Germany—died October 16, 1946, Nürnberg) was a Nazi demagogue and politician who gained infamy as one of the most virulent advocates of the persecution of Jews during the 1930s.
Julius Streicher, an early Nazi Party members, was an organizer of the anti-Jewish boycott of April 1933 and publisher of the virulently antisemitic Der Stürmer.
Julius Streicher: “Dirty Old Man” of the Prison. In the Allied prison at Nuremberg after the war, Streicher also soon established himself as the third most controversial prisoner, after Göring and Rudolf Hess, for his jailhouse antics.
The International Military Tribunal convicted Julius Streicher, the editor of the antisemitic newspaper Der Stürmer, of crimes against humanity. The court sentenced him to death, and he was subsequently hanged. The IMT ruled that Streicher knew of the mass killings of Europe’s Jews.
Nuremberg Trial Defendants: Julius Streicher. Through his words and his deeds Julius Streicher assumed for himself the unofficial title of "Jew-baiter Number One" of Nazi Germany. For the course of some twenty-five years, Streicher educated the German people in hatred and incited them to the persecution and to the extermination of the Jewish race.
Julius Streicher was one of the Nazi Party's earliest members. Among other efforts, he founded the violently antisemitic newspaper, Der Stürmer. At its height, the paper was circulated among hundreds of thousands of Germans. Der Stürmer could also be seen displayed in public spaces across Germany.
Jul 31, 2020 · Julius Streicher (1885-1946) was a German Nazi party member, political leader and propagandist. He is best known as the publisher of Der Sturmer, one of Nazi Germany’s most anti-Semitic newspapers.
Julius Streicher (12 Feb. 1885 – 16 Oct. 1946), a German newspaper publisher and National-Socialist politician, is most famous for his tabloid newspaper Der Stürmer – which translates to “The Striker” or “The Attacker.” This periodical is today most-renowned for its radical and at times vulgar anti-Jewish articles and cartoons.
