that the Defendant Streicher made on 30 March, the day before the boycott was due to start. I beg your pardon; it is an article in the Nationalsocialistische Partei Korrespondenz. It is PS-2153, and it appears on page 12 of the Tribunal's book, which becomes GB-166. There he writes, under the title, "Defeat the Enemy of the World!--by Julius Streicher, official leader of the central committee to combat the Jewish atrocity and boycott campaign."
"Jewry wanted this battle. It shall have it until it realizes that the Germany of the brown battalions is not a country of cowardice and surrender. Jewry will have to fight until we have won victory.
"National Socialists! Defeat the enemy of the world. Even if the world is full of devils, we shall succeed in the end." outlined in detail the organization of the boycott in orders which the committee published on the 31st of March 1933, which is the next document in the book, PS-2154, GB-167. I can summarize those. against the Jews on the occasion of that boycott, but not perhaps for humanitarian reasons; it is because, if there is no violence employed, then Jewish employers will have no grounds for discharging their employees without notice, and they will have no ground for refusing to pay them any wages. businesses to German figureheads, in order to alleviate the results of this persecution, and the committee laid it down that any property so transferred was to be considered as Jewish for the purpose of the boycott.
I don't think I need go into that any further. It does show to show the form that this propaganda developed as the years went on.
At page eighteen of the document book we have an article in the New Year's issue of a new paper that he had just founded. It was a semimedical paper called "The People's Health Through Blood and Soil", edited by himself, and it is an example of the really remarkable lengths to which he went in putting over this propaganda against the Jews. I quote:
"It is established for all eternity: alien to albumen is the sperm of a man of alien race. The male sperm in cohabitation is partially or completely absorbed by the female, and thus enters her bloodstream. One single cohabitation of a Jew with an Aryan woman is sufficient to poison her blood forever. Together with the alien albumen she has absorbed the alien soul. Never again will she be able to bear purely Aryan children, even when married to an Aryan. They will all be bastards, with a dual soul and a body of a mixed breed. Their children will also be crossbreeds; that means, ugly people of unsteady character and with a tendency to illnesses. Now we know why the Jew uses every artifice of seduction in order to ravish German girls at as early an age as possible; whythe Jewish doctor rapes his patients while they were under anaesthetic. He wants the German girl and the German woman to absorb the alien sperm of the Jew. She is never again to bear German children. But the blood products of all animals right down to the bacteria like the serum, lymph, extracts from internal organs etc. are all alien albumen. They have a poisonous effect if directly introduced into the blood stream either by vaccination or by injection. By these products of sick animals the blood is ravished, the Aryan is impregnated with an alien species. The author and abettor of such action is the Jew. He has been aware of the secrets of the race question for centuries, and therefore plans systematically the annihilation of the nations which are superior to him. Science and authorities are his instruments for the enforcing of pseudoscience and the concealment of truth."
That becomes, my Lord, G.B. 168.
his own paper "Der Sturmer", entitled "The Chosen People of the Criminals" -"and all the same, or, let us say, just because of this, the history book of the Jews, which is usually called the Holy Scriptures, impresses us as a horrible criminal romance, which makes the 150 penny-dreadfuls of the British Jew, Edgar Wallace, go green with envy. This 'holy' book abounds in murder, incest, fraud, theft and indecency." remember that that was the month after the Nurnberg Decrees had been made -- he made a speech which is reported in the Voelkischer Beobachter and is entitled in that newspaper "Safeguard of German Blood and German Honor." I read the report in that article:
"Gauleiter Streicher speaks at a German Labor Front mass demonstration for the Nurnberg laws." Then the first line of the actual article says that he spoke for the second time within a few weeks. I quote only the last two lines of that first large paragraph.
"We have therefore to unmask the Jew, and that is what I have been doing for the past fifteen years." That remark apparently was met with tempestuous applause. That becomes GB 169. document in the Tribunal's book. It is very much the same type of thing. On page twenty-two of the document book, M-7, there is a leading article by Streicher in his "Der Sturmer" of which I would refer only to the last half of the last paragraph where again he emphasizes the part that he himself has taken in this campaign.
"The Sturmer's fifteen years of work of enlightenment has already led an army of those who know -- millions strong -- to national socialism. The continued work of "The Sturmer" will help to ensure that every German down to the last man will, with heart and hand, join the ranks of those whose aim it is to crush the head of the serpent Pan-Juda beneath their heels. He who helps to bring this about helps to eliminate the devil, and this devil is the Jew."
to show the extraordinary length to which he went in his propaganda, and it consists of a photograph of the burning hull of the air-ship "Hindenburg" as it went on fire in June 1937 in America. Underneath it the caption includes the comment "The first radio picture from the United States of America shows quite clearly that a Jew stands behind the explosion of our airship Hindenburg. Nature has depicted clearly and quite correctly that devil in human guise."
Although it isn't at all clear from that photograph, I think the meaning of that comment is that the cloud of smoke in the air is in the shape of a Jewish face.
On the next page, a speech he made in September 1937 at the opening *---* of the bridge in Nurnberg.
I would quote only the last paragraph on page twenty-four. The bridge in question is called the Wilhelm Gustloff bridge, and he says, "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 a 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 needs such murder and such victims. For us who know, the murder of Wilhelm Gustloff is the same as ritual murder."
And then on the next page, "It is our duty to tell the children at school and the bigger ones what this memorial means."
I go to the next paragraph: "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." from the correspondence columns of "Der Sturmer", showing again one of the methods he employed in this propaganda. I don't need to read them. The correspondence columns of all his issues are full of letters coming in from Germans saying that some German has been buying her shoes from a Jewish shop, and so on, and in that way assisting in the general boycott of the Jews. In other words, they really are a weekly column of libels against the Jews all over Germany. employed, and which he called, "Ritual Murder". The Tribunal may well remember that some years ago, I think it started in 1934, this "Der Sturmer" began publishing accounts of Jewish ritual murder which horrified the whole world to such an extent that even the Archbishop of Canterbury eventually wrote to the Times protesting, as indeed did people from every country in the world, protesting that any government should allow matter like this to be published in their national newspapers.
during their Eastertide celebrations the Jews were in the habit of murdering Christian children, and he lodges upon this and misrepresents this belief, this medieval belief, to show that not only did they do it in the Middle Ages, but that they are still doing it and still want to do it. And if I might just quote one or two passages from his newspaper and show one or two pictures which he published in connection with his campaign of ritual murder, it will illustrate to the Court the type of teaching and propaganda that he was putting up. On page twenty-nine of the Tribunal's document book, I will quote from the third but last paragraph.
"This the French front-line soldier should take with him to France: The German people have taken a new lease of life. They want peace, but if anyone tries to attack them, if anyone tries to torture them again, if anyone tries to push them back into the past, then the world would see another heroic epic; then heaven will decide where righteousness lies -- hero, or where the Jew has the whiphand and where he instigates massacres, one could almost say the biggest ritual murders of all times. If the German people are to be slaughtered according to the Jewish rites, the whole world will be thus slaughtered at the same time."
And the last paragraph, "As you have drummed morning and evening prayers into your children's heads, so now drum this into their heads, so that the German people may gain the spiritual power to convince the rest of the world which the Jews desire to lead against us." of a photograph taken from the "Der Sturmer" of April 1937, which illustrates three Jews ritually murdering a girl by cutting her throat and shows the blood pouring out into a bucket on the ground. The caption underneath that photograph is as follows: "Ritual murder at Polna. Ritual murder of Agnes Hruza by the Jews Hilsner, Erdmann, and Wassermann," taken from a contemporary postcard. That was GB -- I am afraid I have rather run away from --M-2, which appeared on page twenty-nine of the document book was GB 172, and the illustration on page thirty is U.S. 258. It is already in a copy of the "Der Sturmer", which has been put in.
same "Der Sturmer", April 1937. I "will not read it now, because it has been put in, and that has all been read to the Court.
It describes what happens when ritual murder takes place, and the blood is mixed with the bread and drunk by the Jews having their feast. The Tribunal will remember that during the feast the head of the family explains, "May all gentiles perish as the child whose blood is contained in the bread and wine."
That is already U.S. 258, and it appears -- it has been read in the transcript at page 1437.
THE PRESIDENT: Would that be a good time to take off?
SIR GRIFFITH JONES: If my Lordship pleases.
(Whereupon at 1245 hours the hearing of the Tribunal adjourned to reconvene at 1400 hours.)
Military Tribunal, in the matter of: The
SIR GRIFFITH-JONES: May it please the Tribunal, if I might just refer to further copies of Der Sturmer on the subject of "ritual murder," the first of which appears on page 32 of the Document Book PS 2700. It is the copy in 260-US. It is an article in the "Der Sturmer" for July 1938.
"Whoever had the occasion to be an eye-witness during the slaughtering of animals or to see at least a truthful film on the slaughtering will never forget this horrible experience. It is atrocious. And unwillingly, he is reminded of the crimes which the Jews have committed for centuries on men. He will be reminded of the ritual murder. History points out hundreds of cases in which non-Jewish children were tortured to death. They also were given the same incision through the throat as is found on slaughtered animals. They also were slowly bled to death while fully conscious." matter to put before the world, he was in the habit of issuing special editions of his newspaper "Der Sturmer." Ritual murder was such a special subject that he issued one of these special editions dealing solely with it. The Tribunal will have a photostatic copy of the complete issue for May 1939. articles which appear in that edition. It is perhaps sufficient to look at the pictures, the illustrations, and for me to read the captions which appear underneath the photo; and I regret the translations of the captions have not been attached to the Tribunal's copy but perhaps I may be permitted to refer to the pictures and read the captions for the Tribunal.
The pages are marked in red pencil on the righthand corner. On one I see a picture of a child having knives stuck into its side, blood spurting from it, and below the pedestal on which it stands, are five presumably dead children bleeding on the ground.
The caption to that picture is as follows:
"In the year 1476 the Jews in Regensburg murdered six boys. They drew their blood and tortured them to death in an underground vault which belongs to the Jew Josfel. The judges found the body of the murdered boys; and blood stains are on an altar." The one at the top lefthand corner:
"For the Jewish Now Year celebrations in 1913, World Jewry published this picture. On the Jewish New Year and on the Day of Atonement the Jews slaughtered a so-called 'kapores' cock; that is to say, dead cock, whose blood and death is intended to purify the Jews. In 1913 the 'kapores' cock had the head of the Russian Czar Nicholas II. By publishing this postcard the Jews intended to say that Nicholas II Would be their next purifying sacrifice. On the 6th of July 1918, the Czar was "murdered by the Jew Jurowsky and Goloschtschekin." similar bird, "the 'kapores' cock which has the head of the Fuehrer. The Hebrew script says that one day Jews will kill all Hitlerites. Then they the Jews will be delivered from all misfortunes, but in due course the Jews will realize that they have reckoned without an Adolf Hitler." lot of previous articles on ritual murder with a picture of the Defendant Julius Streicher at the top. the caption:
"At the Passover Meal. The wine and Matzoh, unleavened bread contains non-Jewish blood. The Jew prays before the meal. He prays for death to all non-Jews." American newspaper articles and letters which had been received by those newspapers during the course of the last years, in protest to this propaganda on the subject of ritual murder; and in the center of it you will see the letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury, written to the editor of the Times in protest.
his throat cut; again the usual spurt of blood falling into a basin on the floor, and the caption to that picture is as follows: "The ritual murder of the boy Heinrich, in the year 1345; the Jews in Munich slaughtered a non-Jewish boy. The martyr was declared holy by the church."
On page 7 appears another photo-picture "The Holy Gabriel. This boy was crucified and tortured to death by the Jews in the year 1690. The blood was drawn off him."
I am sorry! The caption that I read then was in respect of the photograph on page 8 and not on page 7. The picture on page 7 is said to represent three ritual murders. Wallfahrts Chapel, and it represents the ritual murder of a boy Werner. It is a somewhat disgusting picture of the boy strung up by his feet and being murdered by two Jews.
Page 12 reproduces; another picture taken from the same place. The caption is:
"The embalmed body of Trient who was tortured to death by the Jews."
Page 13 has another picture; somebody else having a knife stuck into him, more blood coming out into a basin.
On page 14 are two pictures. The one at the top is said to be the ritual murder of the boy Andreas and the one at the bottom is the picture of a tombstone, the caption of which reads as follows;
"The tombstone of Hilsner." This is the memorial to a Jewish ritual murderer Leopold Hilsner. He was found guilty of two ritual murders and was condemned to death by hanging in two trials. The emporer was bribed and pardoned him. Masaryk, the friend of the Jews, liberated him from penal servitude in 1918. On his tombstone lying Jewry calls this twofold murderer an innocent victim." having her throat cut in the same way; and perhaps I might refer to page 17, which produces a picture of the Archbishop of Canterbury and a picture of him of an old Jewish man, and the caption says:
"Dr. Lang, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the highest dignitary of the English Church and his allies, a typical example of the Jewish Race." The last page, page 18 produces a picture called "Holy Simon who was tortured to death." incitement to the people of Germany who read it, an incitement to murder. It is filled with pictures of murder, murder alleged to be against the German people and is an encouragement to all who read if, and to avenge themselves in the same way. That document becomes GB-173.
DR. MARX: (Counsel for Defendant Streicher): The Defendant, Julius Streicher, called my attention this very moment to the fact that he has not been given the opportunity to prove from where these pictures, which have been referred to just now, have been taken from. It is, in the opinion of the Defense, necessary that the origin of these pictures should be clarified before the Tribunal, otherwise one could think that these pictures had been especially prepared for the "Die Sturmer" without any source. Streicher, however, points out that these pictures originate from recognized sources of history, I would therefore like to suggest that the Prosecution should submit all its material as to sources from the articles of the "Die Sturmer" which have been referred to. I think that these articles should prove the sources from which Streicher got these pictures.
THE PRESIDENT: Do the articles show the sources? Do the articles themselves indicate the sources?
DR. MARX: Yes
THE PRESIDENT: According to Streicher?
DR. MARX: Yes.
SIR GRIFFITH-JONES: I should have said so. There wasn't any intention to misrepresent the matter, that these pictures are taken from original pictures. These were not invented by the newspaper and in some cases the sources are shown in the caption. This is a collection of medieval pictures and frescoes dealing with this matter. In actual fact the papers show in almost all cases where they come from.
DR. MARX: Thank you.
SIR GRIFFITH-JONES: I beg the Court's pardon. I have the actual facts, although they do show on the face of them the origin.
THE PRESIDENT: You already stated the alleged date of the pictures and, therefore, they are sketched with the origin. SIR GRIFFITH-JONES: Yes, sir, I have.
THE PRESIDENT: What I said was, that you have already given us the dates of them which stated they were medieval.
SIR GRIFFITH-JONES. That is so. My Lord, in January 1938 -- and it will be remembered that in 1938 the persecution of the Jews became more and more severe -- in January 1938, for some reason or another, another special issue of the "Der Sturmer" was published. If the Tribunal would look at page 34 of their Document Book I will quote a short passage from the leading article in that part, an article written by the Defendant.
"The supreme aim and highest task of the state is therefore to conserve people, blood and race. But if this is the supreme task, any crime against this law must he punished with the supreme penalty. The Sturmer takes therefore the view that there are only two punishments for the crime of polluting the race:
"1. Penal servitude for life for attempted race pollution.
"2. Death for committing race pollution." this was, if the Tribunal will turn over to the next page you will see the headlines set out for some of the articles that are contained in that edition:
"Jewish race polluters at work." The next one:
"Fifteen years old non-Jewess ravaged." The next one:
"A dangerous race polluter. He regards German women as fair game for himself." The next one:
"The Jewish sanatorium. A Jewish institution for the cultivation of race pollution." The next one:
"Rape of a feeble-minded girl." And lastly:
"The Jewish butler. He steals from his Jewish masters and commits race pollution." lines. It is an article appearing in "Der Sturmer," and it is trye that it is not an article actually written by the Defendant Streicher but by his editor, Karl Holz:
"The revenge will break loose one day and will exterminate Jewry from the surface of the earth."
And again on page 37, in September 1938, the "Der Sturmer" has written an article in which the last two lines read as follows: This is a reference to the Jews:
"A parasite, an enemy, an evil-dooer, a disseminator of diseases who must be destroyed in the interest of mankind." anda for the persecution of the Jews, this is propaganda for the extermination of Jews, for the murder not of one man but of millions.
The next document in Document Book, on page 38, has already" been put in evidence and read to the Tribunal. It is US 260. It appears in the Document Book and was read into the transcript at page 1438. This is a short article appearing in December 1938, No. 50 of the "Der Sturmer."
I would draw the Tribunal's attention again to the next document which is a picture taken from that same copy. It shows the upper part of a girl's body being strangled by the arms of a man with his hands around her neck and the shadow of the man's face is shown against the background, quite obviously with Jewish features. The caption under that picture is as follows:
"Castration for Race Polluters.
"Only heavy penalties will preserve our womenfolk from a tighter grip from ghastly Jewish claws.
"The Jews are cur misfortune."
I pause for the moment from, the "Der Sturmer" to a particular incident that occurred, in which the Defendant Streicher took a leading part. It will be remembered that the organized demonstrations against the Jews took place the 9th and 10th of November 1938. All this propaganda, as I say, was becoming fiercer and more ferocious. In the autumn of that year the Defendant Streicher organized the breaking up of the Nurenberg synogogues on the occasion of a meeting of press representatives in Nurnberg. That incident has in fact been referred to previously in this case and the documents in connection with it are PS-1724, which was put in as US 266 and was referred to and read in the transcript at page 1443.
crane in motion with which the Jewish symbols will be torn down from the synagogue; and another document which was also put in, PS-2711, which became US 267, and was read in the transcript on page 1443 also. I quote two lines from it:
"***the Synagogue is being demolished: Julius Streicher himself inaugurates the work by a speech lasting more than an hour and a half. By his order. By his order then - so to speak as a prelude of the demolition - the tremendous Star of David came off the cupola." stration of that year. I do not suggest that he was responsible for the idea of them. The evidence against him is confined only to the part that he took in his Gau in Franconia. demonstrations as they were reported in the Fraenkische Tageszeitung which, of course, was his paper, on the 11th of November. I quote:
"In Nurnberg and Furth it resulted in demonstrations by the crowd against the Jewish murders. These lasted until the early hours of the morning. Far too long had one watched the activities of the Jews in Germany.
And then I go to the last three lines of that paragraph:
"After midnight the excitement of the populace reached its peak and a large crowd marched to the synagogues in Nurenberg and Furth and burned these two Jewish buildings, where the murder of Germans had been preached.
"The fire-brigades, which had been notified immediately, saw to it that the fire was continued to the original outbreak. The windows of the Jewish shopkeepers, who still had not given up hope of selling their junk to the stupid Goims, were smashed. Thanks to the disciplined behaviour of the SA men and the police, who had rushed to the scene, there was no plundering."
Streicher's speech on the 10th of November, the day of the demonstration. I will quote two paragraphs from that page, or rather, starting in the middle of the first paragraph:
"From the cradle, the Jew is not being taught, like we are, such texts as, 'Though shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, or 'If you are smitten on the left cheek, offer then your right one'. No, he is told: With the non-Jew you can do whatever you like.' He is even taught that the slaughtering of a non-Jew is an act pleasing to God. For 20 years we have been writing about this in the 'Steurmer', for 20 years we have been preaching it throughout the world and we have made millions recognize the truth."
I go to the last paragraph:
"The Jew slaughtered in one night 75,000 people; when he emigrated to Egypt he killed all the first-born, i.e. a whole future generation of Egyptians. What would have happened if the Jew had succeeded in driving the nations into war against us, and if we had lost the war? The Jew protected by foreign bayonets, would have fallen on us and would have slaughtered and murdered us. Never forget what history has taught us." in the Gau of Franconia in connection with the organized Aryanization of Jewish property. Aryanization of Jewish property was, of course, regulated by the State, and under a decree it had been laid down that the proceeds or any proceeds that there might be from taking over Jewish properties and giving them to Aryans, all such proceeds were to go to the State. What apparently happened in Franconia was that a good deal of the proceeds never found their way as far as the State, and as a result Goering set up a commission to investigate what had taken place.
We have the report of that commission, and I would refer the Tribunal to certain short passages in it. On page 45, we see from that report exactly what had been taking place in this Defendant Streicher's Gau. I quote from under the words "the 9th and 10th November, 1938", or perhaps from the paragraph before that, opposite of where it says "page 13": -
DR. HANS MARK (Counsel for Defendant Streicher): I am Dr. Marx, Counsel for Julius Streicher. The prosecutor intends to refer as proof of irregularities which -- well, as far as Aryanization of shops in Nurnberg is concerned -- he wants to refer for that purpose to a book which the Deputy Gauleiter Holz, in his examination, has given to the prosecution. I would like to protest against the use of this report. Between Streicher and his Deputy Gauleiter Holz there existed a considerable difference of opinion, if not enmity. His Deputy Gauleiter Holz was exactly the person because of whom these measures were taken. It is not at all proof that Streicher had anything to do with these measures. It is rather to be assumed that Holz, in order to cover himself, has made statements here which he himself couldn't stand for if he would appear as a witness here today. Therefore, it is here with this report a question of statements of a man who was involved in this matter, a man who participated in these deeds, and of a man who was an enemy of Streicher, the defendant. Holz incriminated Streicher on account of the fact that Streicher didn't cover him up as against the commission which had been instituted by Goering at the time. Therefore I do not think that this report should and could be used.
THE PRESIDENT: Have you said what you wished to say?
DR. MARX: Yes, sir.
THE PRESIDENT: The Tribunal considers that this document, being an official document, is admissible under Article 21, and that the objections which you have made to it are not objections which go to its admissibility as evidence, but go to its weight; and as to that, you will have an opportunity to develop your objections at a later stage when you come to speak. The Tribunal rules that the document is admissible.
LT. COL. GRIFFITH-JONES: My Lord, I read from the center of that page 45 of the document book:
"Following upon the November demonstrations, the Deputy Gauleader Holz, took up the Jewish questions. His reasons can be given here in detail an the basis of his statement of the 25th of March, 1939:
"The 9th and 10th of November, 1938.
"In the night of the 9th and 10th November and on the 10th of November, 1938, events took place throughout Germany which I" -- and I emphasize that that is Holz speaking -- "considered to be the signal for a completely different treatment of the Jewish question in Germany. Synagogues and Jewish schools were burnt down and Jewish property was smashed both in shops and in private houses. Besides this, a large number of particular Jews were taken to concentration camps by the police. Towards midday we discussed these events in the Gauleiter's house. All of us were of the opinion that we now faced a completely new state of affairs on the Jewish question. By the great action against the Jews, carried out in the night and morning of the 10th of November, all guiding principles and all laws on the subject had been made illusory. We were of the opinion (particularly myself) that we should now act on our own initiative in this respect. I proposed to the Gauleiter that in view of the great existing lack of housing, the best thing would be to put the Jews into a kind of internment camp. Then the houses would become free in a twinkling, and the housing shortage would be relieved, at least if part. Besides that, we would have the Jews under control and supervision. I added 'The same thing happened to our prisoners of war and war internees.' The Gauleiter said that this suggestion was for the time being impossible to carry out. Thereupon I made a new proposal to him. I said to him that I considered it unthinkable that, after the Jews had had their property smashed, they should continue to be able to own houses and land. I proposed that these houses and this land ought to be taken away from them, and declared myself ready to carry through such an action. I declared that by the Aryanization of Jewish land and houses a large sum could accrue to the Gau out of the proceeds. I named some million of marks. I stated that, in my opinion, this Aryanization could be carried out as legally as the Aryanization of shops.
The Gauleiter's answer was something to this effect: 'If you think you can carry this out, do so. The sum gained will then be used to build a Gau school.'" I go down now to opposite whereit says "Page 18":"The Aryanization was accomplished by the alienation of properties, the surrender of claims, especially mortgage claims, and reductions in buying price.
"The payment allowed the Jews was basically 10% of the nominal value or nominal sum of the claim. As a justification for these low prices, Holz claimed, at the Berlin meeting of the 6th of February, 1939, that the Jews had mostly bought their property during the inflation period for a tenth of its value. As has been shown by investigating a large number of individual cases selected at random, this claim is not true." part of this report, and that part of the report is really the part containing the findings of the commission. I quote from the top of the page, page 48 of the document book.
THE PRESIDENT: Is this still part of the report?
LT. COL. GRIFFITH-JONES: This is still part of the report. It is, in fact, the findings of the commission.
"Gauleiter Streicher likes to beat people with a riding whip but only if he is in the company of several persons assisting him. Usually the beatings are carried out with sadistic brutality.
"The best known case is that of Steinruck whom he beat bloodily in the prison cell, together with Deputy Gauleiter Holz and SA Brigadier General Koenig. After returning from this scene to the 'Deutscher Hof' he said: 'Now I am relieved. I needed that again!' Later he also stated several times that he needed, another Steinruck case in order to 'relieve' himself.
"In August 1938, he beat Editor Burker at the District House together with District Office Leader Schoeller and his Adjutant, Koenig.
"On the 2nd of December 1938 he asked to have three youthful criminals (15 to 17 years old) who had been arrested for robbery brought to the room of the director of the Criminal Police Office in Nurnberg-Furth.