| Abstract |
This document is a summary of an interrogation of Julius Streicher. In addition to the information it provides, this summary indicates that Streicher was in a real sense the Ur-Nazi, the prototype from which the later abomination took its shape. In his intemperate speeches, mass rallies, diabolical anti-Semitism, inhuman disregard for human life, and fanatical single-mindedness, Streicher established the attitude and demeanor of the goose-stepping, swastika-emblazoned storm trooper. This summary depicts Streicher as remorseless and unapologetic. The only sign of reflection is his judgment that "The program [for the elimination of Jews from Germany] as laid down in Mein Kampf is right, but the execution of the program, as it is known today, is not right" (p.3). He admits his chief concern was always race, not Lebensraum, although he denies ever having consigned anyone to a concentration camp (Himmler's Gestapo having overseen this nefarious business), and denies any knowledge "as the leader of the Party and the leading exponent of anti-Semitism . . . that more than two million Jews were killed in concentration camps" (p.3). All Streicher offers in mitigation is the vaguely invidious notion that "the question of the Jewish race should be taken care of the legal, international way" without, apparently, explaining what such an "answer" might comprise. This document is a typewritten copy on stable paper. The quality of the print varies from marginally adequate to poor; page three is almost illegible. |