With 300 marks they tried to deprive me of my honor. Gentlemen, the receipt for 300 marks was produced here in this court. It was 2 years before someone betrayed him and the truth came out. I was called a bloodhound-a blood czar of Franconia my honor was attacked, a criminal was paid 300 marks to swear in this very hall that he had seen me, as an officer in France during the war, rape a Madame Duquesne, a teacher's wife in Atis, near Peronne. Destiny made of me what international propaganda thought it had made. ![]() In this way, Gentlemen of the Tribunal, I became involved in what brings me here today. Local branches of this organization were formed in all the large cities in Germany and fate willed that after I had again spoken at a gathering, a man came up to me and asked me to come to the Kulturverein (Cultural Society) in the Golden Hall and hear what they had to say there. The reaction among the middle classes in Germany manifested itself in the form of an organization known as Schutz und Trutzbund (Society for Protective and Offensive Action). In my native Bavaria the Minister President was a Polish Jew called Eisner-Kosmanowsky. Jews were in the Reich Cabinet and in all the provincial governments. In the November revolution of 1918 the Jews and their friends had seized the political power in Germany. I joined in the debate and I spoke on recent happenings in Germany. An inner voice sent me onto the platform and I spoke. At a meeting, when the speaker had finished, I asked to be heard as an unknown person. Then I saw the blood-red posters of revolution in Germany and for the first time I joined the raging masses of that time. I intended only to stay in private life and devote myself to my profession. When I had returned home, I had no desire to go into politics again. I returned home with both Iron Crosses, with the Bavarian Order, and the rare Austrian Cross of Merit attached to the Ribbon for Gallantry. Then I became an officer in a machine-gun unit. The World War came and I, too, went into the army as a lance corporal in an infantry regiment. I must therefore have been fated to become later on a writer and speaker on racial politics. I stress this point because at that time I had occasion to associate a good deal with Jews, even in the Democratic Party. ![]() The car put at my disposal was paid for by the banking firm of Kohn. ![]() He will win the Iron Cross and reach the rank of first lieutenant by the time of the Armistice.ġ913: Streicher weds Kunigunde Roth, the daughter of a baker, in Nuremberg.ġ914: Streicher joins the German Army at the outbreak of hostilities.ġ915: Kunigunde gives birth to a son, Lothar, who will later write for Streicher's anti-Semitic newspaper, Der Stuermer.ġ918: Kunigunde gives birth to another son, Elmar.ġ918: Streicher-having been awarded an Iron Cross and achieving the rank of lieutenant-leaves the German Army.įrom Streicher's IMT testimony: As a young democratic speaker, I spoke at the Reichstag election in 1919. 1909: Streicher accepts a position teaching in a municipal school in Nuremberg.ġ914: Streicher joins the German Army for the duration of World War One. I became a member of the Democratic Party. This experience led to my decision in 1911 to go into politics. Here I had the opportunity of contact with the families of the working-class children in the suburbs and of observing social contrasts. In 1909, after I had taught for several years in my native district, I was called to the municipal school in Nuremberg. I too became a teacher at an elementary school. My father was an elementary school teacher. Febru: Julius Streicher is born in Fleinhausen, Bavaria, the ninth child of the village schoolmaster Friedrich Streicher and his wife Anna (Weiss).įrom Streicher's IMT testimony: About my life: I was born on 12 February 1885 in a small village in Bavaria Swabia.
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