Streicher's speech on 5 September 1937 commemorating the opening of the Wilhelm-Gustloff-Bridge in Nürnberg. (Reported in the Fraenkische Tageszeitung 5 September 1937).
" * * * with the memorial which has just been unveiled we honour, in the town of the Reich-Party rallies, the fighter who was murdered by a member of the Jewish people. In a plain and simple way it says on the bronze plaque "Wilhelm Gustloff, 30th January 1895—4th February 1936. Murdered by a Jew."
I believe Nürnberg is the first town to have the courage to write on a monument "Here a man is honoured who was killed by a Jew."
The Legacy of Wilhelm Gustloff
This inscription should always remind us of our task of saying before the whole world: This monument was not only built to honour a murdered man of the movement. Nay, it must be a real admonition. All those who walk or drive over this bridge should cast their eyes upon this beautiful monument with a quiet prayer. Bring yoür children here and let them pray, not to saints of the Jewish people, but to those who were murdered by the Jewish people.
And this inscription should further admonish us not to tire in our work Of enlightenment that we began here 15 or more years ago. We told the workmen time and time again: Don't let the Jew lead you astray. The Jewish serpent tells the peoples: You are all equal. And millions believed the Jews and the disaster occurred.
We repeatedly said: Rid yourselves of that enormous fraud. It is not true that all peoples are equal. Nothing in nature is the same and men are not the same either. God created inequality in nature and men. But the inequality which the Jewish people introduced among the peoples by creating enormous wealth on one side and unspeakable misery on the other—that is unnatural. This inequality created by the Jews must be exterminated.
The man who murdered Wilhelm Gustloff had to come from the Jewish people, because the Jewish text-books teach that every Jew has the right to kill the non-Jew, and, indeed, that it is pleasing to the Jewish God to kill as many non-Jews as possible.
Look at the way the Jewish people have been following for thousands of years past; everywhere murder, everywhere mass murder. Neither must we forget that behind present-day wars there stands the Jewish financier who pursues his aims and interests. The Jew always lives on the blood of other nations; he
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needs such murder and such victims. For us who know, the murder of Wilhelm Gustloff is the same as ritual murder.
We must tell our children!
It is our duty to tell the children at school and the bigger ones what this memorial means. And to the many who today still do not know what it is all about we must explain: The security which we have now created for ourselves will only last for centuries if we never more lose the knowledge which we have made clear to the people.
The Jew no longer shows himself among us openly as he used to. But it would be wrong to say that victory is ours. Full and final victory will have been achieved only when the whole world has been rid of Jews. .
Every man or woman should be taken in to see the Anti-Bolshevist exhibition which has now been opened here, and then in front of this memorial. Then perhaps many would understand why we always say : The Jew is our misfortune.
We are here doing honour to a man who died bravely. You know that a Jew came into his house and shot him treacherously. When a German kills a German he has the whole nation against him. But when a Jew kills a non-Jew the whole Jewish people is on his side. All the Jews stood together and collected money for the defence of this murderer. This shows what sort of a people the Jews are and what we can still expect from this people.
We must leave this place with a sacred vow to be hard of heart. Peace has not come for us yet. Those who come after us may perhaps live to see it, if what we preached, hammered into people's heads, and planted in their hearts is never forgotten, if we who know plant hatred against the Jews in the hearts of youth, if we do not get soft any more but remain strong. Then we will overcome the dragon and crush beneath our heel the head of the serpent which has wound itself round the globe for many thousands of years. '
We want to stand together.
We have dedicated our lives to the fight against the murderers of Christ and we are proud that we did not spend the last years in idleness, but by hard fighting carried enlightenment into the German people and furthermore into the other nations. From this town enlightenment was carried into the world. In this place
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let us say to ourselves: We want to stand side by side in the towns with the men, under whose care it is, and we want to take it for granted that they are doing their job as it should be done; and we want to stand together in the Gau because we have to fulfil a task. This task is not yet completed but we will continue working in this spirit and belief to the last gasp. And if we always think of Adolf Hitler, then we cannot fail to receive strength and benediction from heaven.
Adolf Hitler also made this man, Wilhelm Gustloff, a follower of his, and Wilhelm Gustloff remained faithful to the Fuehrer unto death. We salute Adolf Hitler, the creator of the Third Reich, the Saviour of the German people."
Extract from a speech, on a memorial to Wilhelm Gustloff ("Murdered by a Jew"), the history of mass murder and ritual murder by Jews, and the victory that will be achieved "when the whole world has been rid of Jews"
Authors
Julius Streicher (publisher, propagandist)
Julius Streicher
German publisher, Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1885-1946)
- Born: 1885-02-12 (Fleinhausen)
- Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: journalist; politician; publisher
- Member of political party: German Socialist Party; Nazi Party
- Member of: Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund
- Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch
- Position held: member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany; member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
Date: 05 September 1937
Literal Title: Extracts from Streicher's speech on 5 September 1937 commemorating the opening of the Wilhelm-Gustloff-Bridge in Nuremberg.
Defendant: Julius Streicher
Total Pages: 2
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: M-4
Citation: IMT (page 2497)
HLSL Item No.: 452548