Here was one who could wrest out of the German spirit and the German heart the power to break the chains of slavery. Then I knew that in this Adolf Hitler was someone extraordinary. they shouted, 'Heil Hitler! Heil Hitler!'. 'Hitler is coming!' Thousands of men and women jumped to their feet as if propelled by a mysterious power. Everyone seemed tense with excitement, with anticipation. I sat unknown in the large hall of the Bürgerbräuhaus. When asked about that moment, Streicher stated: He visited Munich in order to hear Adolf Hitler speak, an experience that he later said left him transformed. He would later claim that because his political work brought him into contact with German Jews, he 'must therefore have been fated to become later on, a writer and speaker on racial politics'. In 1921, Streicher left the German Socialist Party and joined the Nazi Party, bringing with him enough members of the DSP to almost double the size of the Nazi Party overnight. Meanwhile, Streicher's rhetoric against the Jews continued to intensify to such a degree that the leadership of the Deutsche Werkgemeinschaft thought he was dangerous and criticized him for his obsessive 'hatred of the Jews and foreign races.' Nazism Streicher sought to move the German Socialists in a more virulently antisemitic direction – an effort which aroused enough opposition that he left the group and brought his now-substantial following to yet another organisation in 1921, the Deutsche Werkgemeinschaft (German Working Community), which hoped to unite the various antisemitic völkisch movements.

īy the end of 1919, the DSP had branches in Düsseldorf, Kiel, Frankfurt am Main, Dresden, Nuremberg and Munich. Julius Streicher founded his local branch in 1919 in Nuremberg. Its leading members included Hans Georg Müller, Max Sesselmann and Friedrich Wiesel, the first two editors of the Münchner Beobachter. The DSP had been created in May 1919 as an initiative of Rudolf von Sebottendorf as a child of the Thule Society, and its program was based on the ideas of the mechanical engineer Alfred Brunner (1881–1936) in 1919, the party was officially inaugurated in Hanover. In 1920 Streicher turned to the Deutschsozialistische Partei ( German Socialist Party, DSP), a group whose platform was close to that of the Nazi Party, or Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei (National Socialist German Workers' Party or NSDAP). Such groups fostered the view that Jews and Bolsheviks were synonymous, and that they were traitors trying to subject Germany to Communist rule. In February 1919, Streicher became active in the antisemitic Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund (German Nationalist Protection and Defense Federation), one of the various radical-nationalist organizations that sprang up in the wake of the failed German Communist revolution of 1918. Streicher was heavily influenced by the endemic antisemitism found in pre-war Germany, especially that of Theodor Fritsch. Upon his return, Streicher took up another teaching position there but something unknown happened in 1919, which turned him into a 'radical anti-Semite'. Following the end of World War I, Streicher was demobilised and returned to Nuremberg. For his outstanding combat performance during the First World War, he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd Class, as well as earning a battlefield commission as an officer ( lieutenant), despite having several reported instances of poor behaviour in his military record, and at a time when officers were primarily from aristocratic families. Streicher joined the German Army in 1914. They had two sons, Lothar (born 1915) and Elmar (born 1918). In 1913, Streicher married Kunigunde Roth, a baker's daughter, in Nuremberg. He worked as an elementary school teacher, as his father had. Streicher was born in Fleinhausen, in the Kingdom of Bavaria, one of nine children of the teacher Friedrich Streicher and his wife Anna (née Weiss). Streicher was the first member of the Nazi regime held accountable for inciting genocide by the Nuremberg Tribunal. Specifically, he was found to have continued his vitriolic antisemitic propaganda when he was well aware that Jews were being murdered. Īfter the war, Streicher was convicted of crimes against humanity at the end of the Nuremberg trials.

The publishing firm was financially very successful and made Streicher a multi-millionaire. He was the founder and publisher of the virulently antisemitic newspaper Der Stürmer, which became a central element of the Nazi propaganda machine. 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.

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