Background: These are cover cartoons from Julius Streicher’s Der Stürmer. Streicher, one of Hitler’s earliest followers, published the paper from 1923 to 1945. I also include two promotional flyers from the 1930s. During the Third Reich, Stürmer display cases were found all over Germany. Streicher was a thoroughly unsavory character, unpopular even with many fellow Nazis. Another page on the GPA has caricatures from before 1933.
For more information, see my book on Julius Streicher. I also have an essay looking at symbolic violence in Nazi anti-Semitic propaganda that uses some of these images.
Caricatures from Der Stürmer: 1933-1945
Title: Away with Him
The long arm of the Ministry of Education pulls a Jewish teacher from his classroom.
March 1933 (Issue #12)
This cartoon was published five months after Hitler took power. The title is “Revenge.” The Nazi who shoves the Jew over the cliff says: “Go where you wanted me to go, you evil spirit.”
June 1933 (Issue #22)
Title: Pan-Jewry
Caption: “A frog sat in the green grass. He didn’t do this, he didn’t do that, he didn’t do anything at all. Blinded by the glitter of gold, everyone flew into his mouth. Taken loosely from Boozmann.”
June 1933 (Issue #25)
Title: Rescue Expedition
Caption: Good God, let’s try to find one corner of the earth where no one reads Der Stürmer.
May 1934 (Issue #18)
This is the cover to the most infamous issue of Der Stürmer, the 1934 issue accusing Jews of practicing ritual murder to secure the blood of Christians to use in Jewish religious rituals. The headline reads: Jewish Murder Plan against Gentile Humanity Revealed. The issue actually got banned by the Nazis after it had been out for a while, not because of anti-Semitic content, but because it compared alleged Jewish ritual murder with the Christian sacrament of communion. A full English translation of the issue was published in the United States in 1976 by a group in the “Christian Identity” tradition.
Special Issue: May 1934
Title: Jewish Congress
Caption: “Let the Goyim believe that we can be Americans, Englishmen, Germans, or French. When our interests are at stake, we are always Jews, and nothing but.”
July 1934 (Issue #34)
Title: Brood of Serpents
Caption: “The Jew’s symbol is a worm, not without reason. He seeks to creep up on what he wants.”
September 1934 (Issue #40)
Title: The Curse in the Blood
Caption: “Every little Jewish baby grows up to be a Jew.”
November 1934 (Issue #45)
Title: Don’t Let Go!
Caption:
Do not grow weary, do not loosen the grip,
This poisonous serpent may not slip away.
Better that one strangles it to death
Than that our misery begin anew.
March 1935 (Issue #10)
Title: Legion of Shame
Caption:
Ignorant, lured by gold,
They stand disgraced in Judah’s fold.
Souls poisoned, blood infected,
Disaster broods in their wombs.
August 1935 (Issue #37)
Title: Loyalty
Caption:
The sword will not be sheathed.
The Stürmer stands as ever
in battle for the people and the fatherland.
It fights the Jews because it loves the people.
November 1935 (Issue #48)
Title: Unfruitful
Caption: “She belongs to the church, she belongs to Satan. Both are lost to the German race.”
July 1936 (Issue #20)
Title: The Decent Jew
The cartoon shows a Jew politely asking for room on the bench, after which he shoves the previous inhabitant off. The poem notes that Jews behave the same way in other situations.
July 1936 (Issue #28)
Title: Insatiable
The lead article is on the Moscow show trials. The cartoon caption: “Far be it from the Jews to enslave a single people. Their goal is to devour the entire world.”
October 1936 (Issue #41)
Title: The Answer to the Scribes and Pharisees
The Nazis conducted several campaigns against the Church during the 1930’s. The cartoon is titled “The ‘Holy’ Scripture.” The accompanying article complains that German schoolchildren learn more about Jewish history than they do of German history.
October 1936 (Issue #44)
Title: Priests and Pastors
This was another anti-Christian story. On an altar of the Star of David stands the Inquisition and hammer and sickle, with graves and skulls in the background.
November 1936 (Issue #46)
Title: The Economy and Jewry
This issue accuses Jews of every manner of economic misdeed. The cartoon is titled “Demon Money.” A Jewish monster, engraved with the Star of David and the symbols for the American dollar and British pound has its claws on the planet.
November 1937 (Issue #47)
Title: The Land of Freedom
The cartoon caption: “Where one is ruled by the Jews, freedom is only an empty dream.”
July 1939 (Issue #19)
Title: The End of Judah
The approaching tidal wave of 1940 is about to carry off the Jews.
December 1939 (Issue #52)
Title: Victory — Peace
The headline in red calls for the death penalty for a Jew accused of sexual relations with a German woman. The caption of the cartoon suggests that peace will prevail once the German sword has defeated the Jews.
April 1942 (Issue #14)
Title: Anxiety
The cartoon shows the world’s Jews fearful of the truth. The headline is on the racial defilement theme.
December 1942 (Issue #51)
Headline: The Mobilization of the People
The cartoon shows a photograph of a Jew captioned “Satan.” Streicher regularly used the old religious argument that the Jews were in league with the Devil. This issue appeared as the last German troops in Stalingrad surrendered.
February 1943 (Issue #9)
This is the freedom they promise us
The freedom we see where Judah rules,
Behind prison walls and bars,
Within a dark prison sits
A humanity that longs for true freedom
And longs for rescue and release.
17 June 1943 (Issue #25)
Title: Time
Caption: Pan-Judah sees that time is running out. What does it have to gain? As time passes, the strength of that is growing that will bring order out of chaos.
3 February 1944 (Issue #5)
Title: Jewish Slaves
Caption: They are enslaved and ruined by the Jews. Their joy and very soul is taken from them. They long for Germany, where work enobles, Where everyone recognizes its worth.
6 April 1944 (Issue #14)
Title: Why?
Caption: Why, for what purpose is the blood flowing? Behind the scenes, the Jew grins. That makes the answer clear: They bleed for the Jews.
18 May 1944 (Issue #29)
Title: The Jewish Beast
Caption: Defense.
14 September 1944 (Issue #37)
Title: Vermin
Caption: Life is not worth living When one does not resist the parasite, Never satisfied as it creeps about. We must and will win.
28 September 1944 (Issue #39)
This promotional flyer from the 1930s has a cartoon depicting “The livestock Jew.” The text:
“Do you know him? Millions of German people’s comrades know him. They have all personally experienced what he is. He took everything they had.
There are many even today who are swindled by Jews. These are the ones to whom we are speaking. You must get to know him, the livestock Jew, and the Jew in general, if you are to understand the importance of the racial question.
People’s comrade! Be educated by reading the Stürmer. It is the best expert on the Jews. Read the Stürmer regularly and thoroughly and you will understand: The Jews are our misfortune!”
A second flyer from the period:
“This is how he came to Germany! They all looked like this when they came to Germany from the East. But things soon changed. They stuck their crooked noses into everything; they took over everything and before long they were in charge. Their goal is to establish Jewish world domination.
It is, therefore, absolutely necessary that each German learns the true face of Pan-Jewry so that he can understand how great the danger is that threatens our people from this race.
People’s comrade! The Stürmer educates you about Jewish racial laws. Read it regularly and thoroughly and you will soon be persuaded that the Jews are our misfortune.”