Sturmer, Der

(The Stormer)

   The anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda weekly published by Julius Streicher that sought to inflame public opinion in Germany against the Jews. The journal included stories about ritual murder, Jewish pornography, excerpts from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and repellent photographs of Jews. The Sturmer Publishing House also circulated the Poisonous Mushroom, a primer for schoolchildren. Included in this vile anti-Semitic “text” is this couplet: “from a Jew’s appearance, Evil Satan speaks to us. The Devil, who in every land is known as a terrible plague.” Der Sturmer, the most radical of the Nazi anti-Semitic publications, sought to guarantee that the next generation of Germans would recognize the Jew as the nation’s archenemy. Streicher, a radical in regard to resolving Germany’s “Jewish problem,” was tried and hanged in the aftermath of the Nuremberg Trials in 1946.