Julius Streicher

The International Military Tribunal acquitted Streicher of the conspiracy/aggression charge but found him guilty of crimes against humanity for his persecution and incitement to the extermination of Jews. He was hanged on 16 October 1946.

Attribution

Accused

Streicher founded Der Stürmer in 1923 and remained its publisher. For more than twenty years, the newspaper spread obsessive antisemitic propaganda, often in a sensationalist and sexualised form, reaching mass circulation in the 1930s.

State of the evidence

Documented

Attribution

Directly implicated

The Tribunal examined numerous Der Stürmer articles explicitly calling for the extermination of Jews. These calls continued during the war while Streicher possessed information about massacres in the East; the judgment held that his incitement to murder and extermination constituted criminal racial persecution.

State of the evidence

Established by a court

Attribution

Directly implicated

The Nuremberg judgment found Streicher responsible for demolition of the great Nuremberg synagogue in August 1938 and noted that he publicly supported the anti-Jewish pogrom of November 1938.

State of the evidence

Established by a court

Attribution

Directly implicated

As head of the central committee responsible for the campaign against alleged “Jewish atrocity propaganda”, Streicher participated directly in organising the boycott of Jewish businesses on 1 April 1933.

State of the evidence

Documented

Attribution

Directly implicated