“For Streicher it would surely be an inspiring thought that this 50th anniversary meant to him not only the turn of a half century, but also of a thousand years of German history. He had in Streicher a comrade of whom he could say that here in Nuremberg was a man who would never waver for a single second and who would unflinchingly stand behind him in every situation.”
That is Document M-8 and becomes Exhibit GB-182.
The next document (M-22) is a letter from Himmler published in _Der Stürmer_ of April 1937. That edition is already Exhibit USA-258.
“When in future years the history of the reawakening of the German people is written and the next generation is already unable to understand that the German people were once friendly to the Jews, it will be recognized that Julius Streicher and his weekly paper _Der Stürmer_ contributed a great deal toward the enlightenment regarding the enemy of mankind.”—Signed—“The Reichsführer SS, H. Himmler.”
That is Exhibit USA-258. A number of these documents are already in evidence in the bound volumes.
Lastly, we have a letter from Baldur von Schirach, the Reich Youth Leader, published in _Der Stürmer_ of March 1938 (Document M-45, Exhibit USA-260):
“It is the historical merit of _Der Stürmer_ to have enlightened the broad masses of our people in a popular way as to the Jewish world danger. _Der Stürmer_ is right in not carrying out its task in a purely aesthetic manner, for Jewry has shown no regard for the German people. We have, therefore, no reason for being considerate toward our worst enemy. What we fail to do today, the youth of tomorrow will have to suffer for bitterly.”
My Lord, it may be that this defendant is less directly involved in the physical commission of the crimes against Jews, of which this Tribunal have heard, than some of his co-conspirators. The submission of the Prosecution is that his crime is no less the worse for that reason. No government in the world, before the Nazis came to power, could have embarked upon and put into effect a policy of mass extermination in the way in which they did, without having a people who would back them and support them and without having a large number of people, men and women, who were prepared to put their hands to their bloody murder. And not even, perhaps, the German people of previous generations would have lent themselves to the crimes about which this Tribunal has heard, the killing of millions and millions of men and women.