| Abstract |
This document is a summary of an interrogation of Julius Streicher. In attempting to provide some sort of reckoning of Streicher's role in inciting violence against the Jews, the summary quotes from a number of his anti-Semitic articles, the majority of which appeared in Streicher's newspaper, Der Stuermer (circulation approximately 300,000). Presumably intending to elicit explanations and clarifications, the interrogator apparently received from Streicher a defensive babble of evasion, illogic, contradiction, and special pleading; indeed, the awkward, marginally coherent quality of significant portions of the summary evidently reflect the nature of the witness's response. Streicher attempts to thwart the pointed questions pertaining to his grossly anti-Semitic writings—and thereby to obfuscate his responsibility for Nazi anti-Semitism—by denying the manifest meanings of words like "exterminate" and "liquidate," as well as by defending his animus against the Jews with allusions to the "Jewish menace," the "Jewish problem," and so forth. At the same time, Streicher says that he is "not ashamed of anything he preached, thought or wrote about the Jews" (p.1). This document is a typewritten copy on browning, fragile paper. The quality of the print, however, is good. |