Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity | Der Stürmer

Julius Streicher has been known as the "Jew-Baiter Number One." He was not a career politician, but saw political parties as an efficient tool through which his racist propaganda could reach a larger audience. Streicher's initial political attempt was with the German socialist party (DSP), in which he was responsible for the publication of the Deutsche Sozialist, the DSP's journal. The DSP was not radical enough for his tastes, however. It would not let him use the party for mass propaganda against the Jews. This incited Streicher to join a new radical movement, the Deutsche Werkgemeinschaft (the first group to adopt the swastika), and to publish a new paper, the Deutscher Volkswille, to disseminate its propaganda. Three thousand copies of the Deutscher Volkswille were sold each week. Once again, however, Streicher's anti-Semitism was too strong for his ostensible allies. He lost influence among the movement's...