Julius Streicher – Tainted Images, Stolen Lives
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John J. Michalczyk
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Funded by:
Boston College
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Preface by:
Michael Bryant
About this book
In Leni Riefenstahl's propaganda film of 1934 Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg (Triumph of the Will), Julius Streicher proclaims: “A people which does not hold with the purity of its race will perish!” This belief will consume Streicher’s life until his death on the gallows in 1946. Streicher, a devoted disciple of Hitler from 1923 at the time of the aborted Beer Hall Putsch, held some of the most anti-Semitic beliefs of the Nazi Party. After Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment, Streicher became perhaps the next highly established propagandist in the Nazi Party, although berated for his crude and simplistic means of spreading the hatred of Jews. In his diary, Joseph Goebbels himself decried Streicher’s outlandish caricatures. From 1923 to 1945, Streicher published his infamous anti-Semitic weekly newspaper Der Stürmer. The newspaper, filled with vulgar stereotypes of Jews, at times bordering on the semi-pornographic, emanated from Julius Streicher'spublishing house and was read religiously in the popular display cases throughout Germany. In 1936, following the pedagogical guidelines of “education” of children in the Nazi ideology, Streicher’s publishing house originated and distributed three anti-Semitic children’s books: Trust No Fox on His Green Heath and No Jew on His Oath, The Poisonous Mushroom and The Mongrel. The propagandistic goal of the books was to teach children at an early age to hate Jews, seen as the scourge of the German Aryan population. A detailed analysis of the images by various illustrators such as Willi Hofmann and Philipp Rupprecht (Fips) reveal the Jew as “The Other”, which helped reinforce the hatred of Jews, leading to the tragedy of the Holocaust.
A most valuable contribution to this volume was made by the foremost specialist in Streicher and Rupprecht's images, Ralph Keysers, who graciously contributed previously unpublished images.
Author / Editor information
John Michalczyk, Ph.D. is Professor and Director of Film Studies at Boston College. His numerous books and documentary films deal with historical events such as World War II and the Holocaust, as well as themes of conflict resolution, moral compromises, and social justice. He has been teaching at Boston College since 1974 after completing doctoral studies at Harvard University.
Topics
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Frontmatter
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Dedication
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Acknowledgements
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Foreword
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Contents
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Prologue
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Introduction
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Chapter One The Shaky Foundation of Julius Streicher’s Anti-Semitic Propaganda
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Chapter Two Stormy History and Vile Content of Der Stürmer
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Chapter Three Detailed Analysis of Anti-Semitic Imagery in Der Stürmer
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Chapter Four Misguided Pedagogical Guidelines in Anti-Semitic Education in Nazi Germany
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Chapter Five A Nod to Martin Luther – Trust No Fox Nor Jew/Trau keinem Fuchs auf grüner Heid und keinem Jud bei seinem Eid
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Chapter Six Toxic Reading – The Poisonous Mushroom/Der Giftpilz (1938)
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Chapter Seven “Bastard” Narratives – The Mongrel/Der Pudelmopsdackelpinscher (1940)
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Chapter Eight The Fate of Julius Streicher at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg
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Epilogue Anti-Semitism Re-Dux with White Supremacist Andrew Anglin’s Website, The Daily Stormer
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Bibliography
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About the Author
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Index
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