The most
notorious of the Nazi anti-Semitic newspapers was Der Sturmer (The
Attacker). It began in 1923 as a political paper, but as the Nazis
gained in influence, the paper became more and more anti-Semitic. By the
time Hitler took power in 1933, the paper was strongly anti-Semitic and
was a very popular Nazi publication.
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Der
Sturmer Ritual Murder Issue
May 1, 1934
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"For thousands of years the Yid has spilled
Man's blood, his sacred rites to build;
Upon our necks the fiend still sits,
It's up to you to see he flits.
THE JEWS ARE OUR DOWNFALL!" |
 It
specialized in selling the idea that the Jews were
the worst enemy of the Germans, with the slogan "Die
Juden sind unser Ungluck" (The Jews are our misfortune).
It was advertised with displays on the street which attracted
a lot of attention.
Like
other Nazi propaganda its style was simple and repetitive.
One of its most popular features were the regular
anti-Semitic cartoons of Philip Rupprecht.
Jews  were
portrayed with huge hooked noses, bulging eyes, large
ears, swollen lips, unshaven beards, long hairy arms
and hands, and short crooked legs. The dominant characteristics
were swindling and sexual perversion.
As
the Jews disappeared from Germany, the circulation
of the paper dropped, but it continued to publish
until the end of the war.
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