The Striker, Number 25, June 1937, 15th year 1937 Der Stürmer (Nuremberg, Germany) [Newspaper]
Creator(s)
- Peter Ehrenthal (Compiler)
- Julius Streicher (Publisher)
- Stürmer-Verlag (Publisher)
Biographical History
The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to the modern era, in Europe, Russia, and the United States. The collection was amassed by Peter Ehrenthal, a Romanian Holocaust survivor, to document the pervasive history of anti-Jewish hatred in Western art, politics and popular culture. It includes crude folk art as well as pieces created by Europe's finest craftsmen, prints and periodical illustrations, posters, paintings, decorative art, and toys and everyday household items decorated with depictions of stereotypical Jewish figures.
Julius Streicher was the founder of "Der Stürmer" and Gauleiter of Franconia. He was sentenced to death at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. [Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. Vol. 3-4. New York: MacMillan Publishing Company, 1995, pp. 1788.]
Archival History
The newspaper was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by the Katz Family.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Katz Family
Funding Note: The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Scope and Content
Issue of Der Stürmer, [The Stormtrooper], a viciously anti-Jewish newspaper published by Julius Streicher, an early Nazi Party member, from 1923-1945 in Germany. The newspaper's slogan was "Die Juden sind unser Unglück!" [The Jews are our misfortune]. The paper thrived on scandal, and preferred sensational stories of Jews committing disgusting, evil acts. It was also infamous for its antisemitic cartoons and staff cartoonist Fips. Streicher was arrested by the US Army in May 1945. He was tried by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, convicted, and executed per the ruling that his repeated articles calling for the annihilation of the Jewish race were a direct incitement to murder and a crime against humanity. The newspaper is one of the more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic artifacts and visual materials.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
23 issues available, Katz Ehrenthal Collection. v. : ill. ; 43 cm. (17.375 x 12.500 in.) Weekly Nr. 1 (1923)-Ceased in Feb. 1945. Notes: Subtitle varies. Editor: Julius Streicher.
Subjects
- Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945--Newspapers.
- Anti-Jewish propaganda--Germany--Sources.
- Jews--Press coverage--Germany--Periodicals.
- National socialism--Periodicals.
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany--Periodicals.
- Antisemitism in the press--Germany.
- Press and propaganda--Germany.
Genre
- Object
- Books and Published Materials
- Newspapers.