Contents
Memorandum by Gauleiter
Party Member Julius Streicher
Enclosure 1: First memorandum by Gauleiter Deputy, Party Member Karl Holz, with postscriptum.
Enclosure 2: Second memorandum by Gauleiter Deputy, Party Member Karl Holz, with postscriptum.
Appendix 1: Case Sandreuter Appendix 2: Case Ritter Appendix 3: Case J. M. Lang
MEMORANDUM BY GAULEITER '
PARTY MEMBER JULIUS STREICHER
Action against the Jews on 9/10 November 1938.
I was no longer present at the traditional fellowship congregation in the old town-hall in Munich on the evening of 9 November 1938 when a speaker, who claimed to have higher authority, made it known that the party was launching an action against the Jews during the night of 9/10 November 1938. I was informed of this fact by the party members Obergruppen-fuehrer von Obernitz and Obergruppenfuehrer Litzmann around midnight of 9 November 1938. I declared to both these party members that I myself did not approve of an action involving arson of synagogues and destruction of goods but that I would raise no objections, of course, if this action had been sanctioned by the party. Therefore, what was done to the Jews during the night of 9/10 November 1938 happened without my direct or indirect assistance.
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The consequences arising from the action against the Jews.
The action against the Jews of November 1938 was not a spontaneous one emanating from the population, and therefore was incomprehensible to many party members also as to its effects. Units of the components of the Party had been ordered to carry out the action against the Jews. If there is evidence now that in isolated cases party members with immaculate police records have appropriated goods during this action it should not be overlooked in judging such incidents that the appropriation was committed in an instant, where all goods were being destroyed in accordance with the orders given. April 14, 1939
Memorandum on the planning of the November 1938 anti-Jewish action by the party, and thefts committed by Nazis during it
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: Date Unknown
Literal Title: Contents[:] Memorandum of Gauleiter Party Member Julius Streicher
Defendant: Julius Streicher
Total Pages: 3
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: PS-406
HLSL Item No.: 451023
Notes:The memo is not dated. This document was not entered as evidence in the trial.
Trial Issues
Persecution of political, religious, and ethnic ("racial") groups (IMT, NM… Plundering of private property and occupied territories (inc. Reinhardt Ac…
Document Summary
PS-406: The Document is an attempt at vindication for Gaul-eiter Streicher, Deputy Gauleiter Holz, Party Member Konig, Party Mem-ber Sandreuter, Ritter, and J. M. Lang - re certain actions against Jews