On this date, October 16, 1946, Nazi
War Criminal, Julius Streicher was executed by hanging. I will post information
about him from Wikipedia.
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Julius Streicher as a defendant before the International Military Tribunal.
(November 24, 1945)
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Gauleiter
of Franconia
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In
office
1929 – 16 February 1940 |
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Leader
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Preceded by
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None
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Succeeded by
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Hans Zimmermann
(Acting, 1940) Karl Holz (acting from 1942, permanent from 1944) |
Personal
details
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Born
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12 February 1885
Fleinhausen, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire |
Died
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16 October 1946 (aged 61)
Nuremberg, American Occupied Zone, German Realm |
Political party
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National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP)
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Spouse(s)
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Kunigunde Roth (m. 1913, died 1943)
Adele Tappe (m. 1945) |
Children
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2
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Profession
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Teacher, publisher, activist
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Religion
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Former Roman Catholic
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Julius Streicher
(12 February 1885 – 16 October 1946) was a prominent Nazi prior to World War
II. He was the founder and publisher of Der Stürmer newspaper, which
became a central element of the Nazi propaganda machine. His publishing firm
also released three anti-Semitic books for children, including the 1938 Der
Giftpilz ("The Toadstool" or "The Poison-Mushroom"),
one of the most widespread pieces of propaganda, which purported to warn about
insidious dangers Jews posed by using the metaphor of an attractive yet deadly
mushroom. After the war, he was convicted of crimes against humanity and
executed.
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Julius
Streicher in 1935
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Early life
Streicher
was born in Fleinhausen, Kingdom of Bavaria, one of nine children of the
teacher Friedrich Streicher and his wife Anna (née Weiss). He worked as an
elementary school teacher like his father, and in 1911 he began his political
career, joining the Democratic Party. He would later claim that because
his political work brought him into contact with German Jews,
he "must therefore have been fated to become later on a writer and speaker
on racial politics." In 1913 Streicher married Kunigunde Roth, a baker's
daughter, in Nuremberg. They had two sons, Lothar (born 1915) and Elmar (born
1918).
Streicher
joined the German Army in 1914. He won the Iron Cross and reached the rank of
lieutenant by the time the Armistice was signed in November 1918.
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Julius
Streicher mug shot
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Early politics
In
February 1919 Streicher became active in the anti-Semitic
Deutschvölkischer Schutz und
Trutzbund (German Nationalist Protection and Defense Federation), one
of the various radical-nationalist organizations that sprang up in the wake of
the failed German Communist revolution of 1918.
Such groups fostered the view that Jews had conspired with "Bolshevik"
traitors in trying to subject Germany to Communist rule. In 1920 he turned to
the Deutschsozialistische Partei (German-Socialist Party), a group whose
platform was close to that of the young NSDAP, or National
Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei (National Socialist German Worker's
Party). The German Socialist Party (Deutsch-Sozialistische Partei, DSP)
was created in May 1919 as an initiative of Rudolf von Sebottendorf as a child of the Thule
society, and its program was based on the ideas of the mechanical engineer
Alfred Brunner (1881–1936) – including socialist ideas like the takeover of the
financial sector by the state and the cutting-back of the "interest-based
economy". Leading members of the DSP were Hans Georg Müller, Max
Sesselmann and Dr. Friedrich Wiesel, the first two being editors of the Münchner Beobachter. Julius Streicher founded
his local branch in 1919 in Nuremberg. Streicher's arguments were primitive,
vulgar, and crude but he believed in what he said and was an uninhibited, wild
agitator, to whom masses would listen; which was what mattered to the party.
The DSP was officially inaugurated in April 1920 in Hanover. Streicher sought
to move the German-Socialists in a more virulently anti-Semitic direction – an
effort which aroused enough opposition that he left the group and brought his
now-substantial following to yet another organization in 1921, the Deutsche
Werkgemeinschaft (German Working Community), which hoped to unite the
various anti-Semitic Völkisch movements.
National Socialism
In
1921, Streicher finally found his mentor. He visited Munich in order to hear
Adolf Hitler speak, an experience that he later said left him transformed:
"Have you already heard Adolf Hitler speak?" I had been asked for quite some time. ... It was on a winter's day in 1922. And there I sat in a public meeting, an unknown among unknowns. ... It was the last hour before midnight when his speech ended ... It was an immense wealth of ideas that in a more than three hour long speech came from his mouth, clad into the beauty of a gifted oratory. ... When he was standing on the podium with a face radiant with joy and looking at the stormy enthusiasm, I felt that there had to be something special in Hitler! ... Everybody could feel it: this man speaks on behalf of a divine appointment, as a messenger sent from heaven at a time when hell had opened to devour everything.
In
1921, Streicher joined the Nazi Party and merged his personal following with
Hitler's, more than doubling the party membership.
In
May 1923 Streicher founded the newspaper, Der
Stürmer (The Stormer, or, loosely, The Attacker). From
the outset, the chief aim of the paper was to promulgate anti-Semitic
propaganda. "We will be slaves of the Jew," the paper announced.
"Therefore he must go."
In
November of that year, Streicher participated in Hitler’s first effort to seize
power, the failed Beer Hall Putsch in Munich. Streicher marched with Hitler in
the front row of the would-be revolutionaries and braved the bullets of the
Munich police. His loyalty earned him Hitler's lifelong trust and protection;
in the years that followed, Streicher would be one of the dictator's few true
intimates.
As
a reward for his dedication, when the Nazi Party was legalized again and
re-organized in 1925 Streicher was appointed Gauleiter of the Bavarian
region of Franconia (which included his home town of Nuremberg).
In the early years of the party’s rise, Gauleiter were essentially party
functionaries without real power; but in the final years of the Weimar
Republic, they became paramilitary commanders. During the 12 years of the Nazi
regime itself, party Gauleiter like Streicher would wield immense power,
and be in large measure untouchable by legal authority.
Streicher
was also elected to the Bavarian "Landtag" or
legislature, a position which gave him a margin of parliamentary immunity – a safety net that
would help him resist efforts to silence his racist message.
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1934 Stürmer issue: "Storm above
Judah" - criticizing institutional churches as "Judaized"
organizations. Caption: I called the Jews a cursed people, but you have made
out of them the Elect Nation.
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German citizens, public reading of Der
Stürmer, Worms, 1933
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Rise of Der Stürmer
Beginning
in 1924, Streicher used Der
Stürmer as a mouthpiece not only for general antisemitic attacks, but
for calculated smear campaigns against specific Jews, such as the Nuremberg
city official Julius Fleischmann, who worked for Streicher's nemesis, mayor Hermann Luppe. Der Stürmer
accused Fleischmann of stealing socks from his quartermaster during combat in World War I.
Fleischmann sued Streicher and successfully disproved the allegations in court,
where Streicher was fined 900 marks);
but the detailed testimony exposed other less-than-glorious details of
Fleischmann's record, and his reputation was badly damaged anyway. It was proof
that Streicher's unofficial motto for his tactics was correct: "Something
always sticks."
The
slanderous
attacks continued, and lawsuits followed. Like Fleischmann, other outraged
German Jews defeated Streicher in court, but his goal was not necessarily legal
victory; he wanted the widest possible dissemination of his message, which
press coverage often provided. The rules of the court provided Streicher with
an arena to humiliate his opponents, and he characterized the inevitable
courtroom loss as a badge of honor. Der
Stürmer's infamous official slogan, Die Juden sind unser Unglück
(the Jews are our misfortune) was deemed unactionable under German statutes,
since it was not a direct incitement to violence.
Streicher's
opponents complained to authorities that Der Stürmer violated a statute
against religious offense with his constant promulgation of the "blood libel" – the medieval
accusation that Jews killed Christian children to use their blood to make matzoh. Streicher
argued that his accusations were based on race, not religion, and that his
communications were political speech, and therefore protected by the German
constitution.
Streicher
orchestrated his early campaigns against Jews to make the most extreme possible
claims, short of violating a law that might get the paper shut down. He
insisted in the pages of his newspaper that the Jews had caused the worldwide
Depression, and were responsible for the crippling unemployment
and inflation
which afflicted Germany during the 1920s. He claimed that Jews were white-slavers
and were responsible for over 90 percent of the prostitutes
in the country. Real unsolved killings in Germany, especially of children or
women, were often confidently explained in the pages of Der Stürmer as
cases of "Jewish ritual murder."
One
of Streicher's constant themes was the sexual violation of ethnically German
women by Jews, a subject which served as an excuse to publish semi-pornographic
tracts and images detailing degrading sexual acts. These "essays"
proved an especially appealing feature of the paper for young men. With the
help of his notorious cartoonist, Phillip
"Fips" Rupprecht, Streicher published image after image of Jewish
stereotypes
and sexually-charged encounters. His portrayal of Jews as subhuman and evil is
widely considered to have played a critical role in the dehumanization and
marginalization of the Jewish minority in the eyes of common Germans – creating
the necessary conditions for the later perpetration of the Holocaust.
Streicher
also combed the pages of the Talmud and the Old
Testament in search of passages that painted Judaism as harsh or cruel. In
1929, this close study of Jewish scripture helped convict Streicher in a case known
as "The Great Nuremberg Ritual Murder Trial." His familiarity with
Jewish text was proof to the court that his attacks were religious in nature;
Streicher was found guilty and imprisoned for two months. In Germany, press
reaction to the trial was highly critical of Streicher; but the gauleiter
was greeted after his conviction by hundreds of cheering supporters, and within
months Nazi party membership surged to its highest levels yet.
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Ruined Ohel Yaakov shul in Munich
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Eisenach synagogue,
Germany, destroyed by the Nazis during Pogromnacht on the
9th November 1938
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Streicher in power
In
April 1933, after Nazi control of the German state apparatus gave the Gauleiters
enormous power, Streicher organised a one-day boycott of Jewish
businesses which was used as a dress-rehearsal for other anti-Semitic
commercial measures. As he consolidated his hold on power, he came to more or
less rule the city of Nuremberg and his Gau Franken.
Among the nicknames provided by his enemies were "King of Nuremberg"
and the "Beast of Franconia." Because of his role as Gauleiter of
Franconia, he also gained the nickname of Frankenführer.
To
protect himself from accountability, Streicher relied on Hitler's protection.
Hitler declared that Der Stürmer was his favourite newspaper, and saw to
it that each weekly issue was posted for public reading in special glassed-in
display cases known as "Stürmerkasten". The newspaper
reached a peak circulation of 600,000 in 1935.
Streicher
later claimed that he was only "indirectly responsible" for passage
of the anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws of 1935, and that he felt slighted
because he was not directly consulted.
Streicher
was ordered to take part in the establishment of the Institute
for the Study and Elimination of Jewish Influence on German Church Life,
that was to be organized together with the German
Christians, the Ministry of Public
Enlightenment and Propaganda, the Reich Ministry of Education and the Reich Ministry of
the Churches. This anti-Semitic standpoint concerning the bible can be
traced back to the earliest time of the Nazi movement, e.g., Dietrich
Eckart's (Hitler's early mentor) book Bolshevism from Moses to Lenin: A
Dialogue Between Adolf Hitler and Me, where it was claimed that
"Jewish forgeries" had been added to the New
Testament.
In
1938, Streicher ordered the Great Synagogue of
Nuremberg destroyed as part of his contribution to Kristallnacht;
he later claimed that his decision was based on his disapproval of its architectural
design.
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Julius Streicher in custody
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Fall from power
Streicher's
excesses brought condemnation even from other Nazis. Streicher's behaviour was
viewed as so irresponsible that he alienated much of the party leadership;
chief among his enemies in Hitler's hierarchy was Reichsmarschall Hermann
Göring, who loathed him and later claimed that he forbade his own staff to
read Der Stürmer.
In
spite of his special relationship with Hitler, after 1938 Streicher's position
began to unravel. He was accused of keeping Jewish property seized after
Kristallnacht in November 1938; he was charged with spreading untrue stories
about Göring – such as alleging that Göring's daughter Edda was conceived by artificial insemination, and he was
confronted with his excessive personal behaviour, including unconcealed
adultery, several furious verbal attacks on other Gauleiters and
striding through the streets of Nuremberg cracking a bullwhip (this last is
portrayed in the 1944 Hollywood film The
Hitler Gang). In February 1940 he was stripped of his party offices and
withdrew from the public eye, although he was permitted to continue publishing Der
Stürmer. Streicher also remained on good terms with Hitler.
Streicher's
wife, Kunigunde Streicher, died in 1943 after 30 years of marriage.
When
Germany surrendered to the Allied armies in May 1945, Streicher said
later, he decided to commit suicide. Instead, he married his former secretary, Adele
Tappe. Days later, on 23 May 1945, Streicher was captured in the town of Waidring, Austria, by a
group of American officers led by Major Henry Plitt – who was Jewish. At first
Streicher claimed to be a painter named "Joseph Sailer," but after a
few questions, quickly admitted to his true identity.
During
his trial, Streicher claimed that he had been mistreated by Allied soldiers
after his capture. By his account they ordered him to take off his clothes in
his cell, burned him with cigarettes and made him extinguish them with his bare
feet, allowed him to drink only water from a toilet, made him kiss the feet of
Negro soldiers and beat him with a bullwhip. He further claimed that some of
the soldiers also spat at him and forced his mouth open to spit in it.
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| Julius Streicher at the Nuremberg Trials. From the National Archives. |
Trial and execution
Julius
Streicher was not a member of the military and did not take part in planning
the Holocaust,
or the invasion of other nations. Yet his pivotal role in inciting the
extermination of Jews was significant enough, in the prosecutors' judgment, to
include him in the indictment of Major War Criminals before the International
Military Tribunal – which sat in Nuremberg, where Streicher had once been
an unchallenged authority. Most of the evidence against Streicher came from his
numerous speeches and articles over the years. In essence, prosecutors
contended that Streicher's articles and speeches were so incendiary that he was
an accessory to murder, and therefore as
culpable as those who actually ordered the mass extermination of Jews (such as Hans Frank and Ernst Kaltenbrunner). They further argued that he kept
them up when he was well aware Jews were being slaughtered.
He
was acquitted of crimes against peace, but found guilty of crimes against
humanity, and sentenced to death on 1 October 1946. The judgment against him
read, in part:
"... For his 25 years of speaking, writing and preaching hatred of the Jews, Streicher was widely known as 'Jew-Baiter Number One.' In his speeches and articles, week after week, month after month, he infected the German mind with the virus of anti-Semitism, and incited the German people to active persecution. ... Streicher's incitement to murder and extermination at the time when Jews in the East were being killed under the most horrible conditions clearly constitutes persecution on political and racial grounds in connection with war crimes, as defined by the Charter, and constitutes a crime against humanity.”
During
his trial, Streicher displayed for the last time the flair for courtroom
theatrics that had made him famous in the 1920s. He answered questions from his
own defence attorney with diatribes against Jews, the Allies, and the court itself,
and was frequently silenced by the court officers. Streicher was largely
shunned by all of the other Nuremberg defendants. He also peppered his
testimony with references to passages of Jewish texts he had so often carefully
selected and inserted (invariably out of context) into the pages of Der
Stürmer.
Streicher
was hanged in the early hours of 16 October 1946, along with the nine other
condemned defendants from the first Nuremberg trial (Göring, Streicher's
nemesis, committed suicide only hours earlier). Streicher's was the most
melodramatic of the hangings carried out that night. At the bottom of the
scaffold he cried out "Heil Hitler!". When he mounted the platform, he
delivered his last sneering reference to Jewish scripture, snapping
"Purim-Fest 1946!". The Jewish holiday Purim celebrates the escape by
the Jews from extermination at the hands of Haman,
an ancient Persian
government official. At the end of the Purim story, Haman is hanged, as are his
ten sons. Streicher's final declaration before the hood went over his head was,
"The Bolsheviks
will hang you one day!" Joseph Kingsbury-Smith, who covered the
executions, said in his filed report that after the hood descended over
Streicher's head, he also apparently said "Adele, meine liebe Frau!"
("Adele, my dear wife!").
The
consensus among eyewitnesses was that Streicher's hanging did not proceed as
planned, and that he did not receive the quick death from spinal
severing typical of the other executions at Nuremberg. Kingsbury-Smith, who
covered the executions for the International News Service, reported
that Streicher "went down kicking" which may have dislodged the
hangman's knot from its ideal position. Smith stated that Streicher could be
heard groaning under the scaffold after he dropped through the trap-door, and
that the executioner intervened under the gallows, which was screened by wood
panels and a black curtain, to finish the job. U.S. Army Master Sergeant John C. Woods was the main executioner, and not only insisted he had performed
all executions correctly, but stated he was very proud of his work.
Portrayals
Julius
Streicher was played by Rolf Hoppe in the German film Comedian Harmonists.
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Last words of Julius Streicher, 10/16/46,
quoted in The Quest for the Nazi Personality - Page 157 by Eric A. Zillmer -
History – 1995
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- Heil Hitler! (when asked to state his name) You know my name well. Julius Streicher! The Bolsheviks will hang you one day! (to the hangman) Purim festival, 1946! I am now by God my father! Adele, my dear wife.
- Last words, 10/16/46, quoted in "The Quest for the Nazi Personality" - Page 157 by Eric A. Zillmer - History - 1995
- I have to repeat again and again: He who knows the Talmud, knows the Jew! The laws of the Talmud are contrary to the German system of laws. You should acknowledge the importance of discussing this matter in connection with the judiciary budget. Once you know what the Talmud orders the Jew to do, you will understand today's state of affairs.
- Ich muss es immer wieder sagen: Wer den Talmud kennt, kennt den Juden! Die Gesetze des Talmuds sind unserer deutschen Rechtsordnung entgegengesetzt. Erkennen Sie daraus, wie wichtig es ist, dass diese Frage im Zusammenhang mit dem Justizetat besprochen wird. Wenn Sie wissen, was der Talmud dem Juden befiehlt, dann werden Sie auch unseren Zustand von heute begreifen.
- 05/01/1925, speech in the Bavarian regional parliament; debate about the budget of ministry of justice ("Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938)
- We handed the most important belongings of our people -- the railroads and the banks -- to aliens who 2000 years ago had turned the temple into a house of usury. Back then there was a man who had the bravery to drive out these scoundrels with a whip! If today a national socialist is seen with such a temple-whip, he's thrown into jail.
- Wir haben unsere wichtigsten Volksgüter, die Eisenbahnen und die Banken, den Fremdlingen überlassen, die schon vor 2000 Jahren den Tempel zu einem Wucherhaus gemacht haben. Damals hatte schon einer den Mut besessen, mit einer Peitsche dieses Gesindel auszutreiben! Wenn heute ein Nationalsozialist mit einer solchen Tempelpeitsche angetroffen wird, wird er ins Gefängnis geworfen.
- 05/01/1925, speech in the Bavarian regional parliament; debate about the budget of the ministry of justice ("Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938)
- When one listens to your speeches
it sounds as if you had always fought against capitalism. The truth is
that it was you who gave all the power to capitalism. In this republic
capitalism has grown as it had never before. You can think about the old
state as you will, one thing is certain: it was not as rotten as the one
you brought about! ...
What shall one say when Reich president Ebert in his letters addresses the Jewish scoundrel Barmat as "My dear Barmat" and closes with the greeting "Yours Ebert"? Despite all the veneration that I feel for this man, whom by the way I respect more as a master saddle-maker than as a Reich president, I simply have to be astonished. Gentlemen, where is the "beauty and dignity"? - Wenn man Euch reden hört, dann
habt Ihr immer den Kapitalismus bekämpft. In Wirklichkeit habt Ihr den
Kapitalismus erst in den Sattel gehoben. In dieser Republik hat sich der
Kapitalismus ausgewachsen wie niemals zuvor. Mag man über den alten Staat
denken wir man will, eines steht fest: so verlumpt war er nicht wie der,
den Ihr uns gebracht habt! ...
Was soll man dazu sagen, wenn ein Reichspräsident Ebert den jüdischen Schurken Barmat in Briefen mit "Mein lieber Barmat" anredet und ihn am Schlusse mit "Dein Ebert" grüßt? Bei aller Ehrfurcht, die ich vor dem Mann habe, den ich übrigens als Sattlermeister weit mehr schätze denn als Reichspräsident, muss ich mich doch sehr wundern. Meine Herren, wo ist da "Schönheit und Würde"? - 01/23/1925, speech in the Bavarian regional parliament ("Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938)
- Moreover I want to tell Dr.
Süßheim -- who wants to portray every anti-Semite as a psychopath -- about
his racial fellow Dr. Otto Weininger, who as an honest Jew wrote
down his thoughts in the book "Sex and Character":
"Jewry seems to be somewhat anthropologically related to the Negroes and the Mongolians. To the Negro points the readily curling hair, to an admixture of Mongolian blood points the very Chinese or Malayan formed skull, that one finds so often among Jews, which matches the usually yellowish complexion ... The fact that excellent men have almost always been anti-Semites (Tacitus, Pascal, Voltaire, Goethe, Kant, Jean Paul, Schopenhauer, Grillparzer, Richard Wagner) can be explained in the following way: they, who have so much more in their own nature than other men, can also better understand Jewry." - Ferner möchte ich Herrn Dr.
Süßheim, der jeden Antisemiten als Psychopathen hinstellen möchte, seinen
Rassegenossen Dr. Otto Weininger nennen, der als ehrlicher Jude seine
Gedanken in einem Buch "Geschlecht und Charakter"
niedergeschrieben hat:
"Das Judentum scheint anthropologisch mit den Negern wie mit den Mongolen eine gewisse Verwandtschaft zu besitzen. Auf den Neger weisen die so gern sich ringelnden Haare, auf Beimischung von Mongolenblut die ganz chinesisch oder malaiisch geformten Gesichtsschädel, die man oft unter Juden antrifft, und denen regelmäßig gelbe Hautfärbung entspricht, hin ... Daß hervorragende Menschen fast stets Antisemiten waren (Tacitus, Pascal, Voltaire, Goethe, Kant, Jean Paul, Schopenhauer, Grillparzer, Richard Wagner) geht eben darauf zurück, daß sie, die soviel mehr in sich haben als andere Menschen, auch das Judentum besser verstehen als diese." - 12/9/1925, Streicher's pleading when sued because of ani-Semitic slurs; courthouse in Nuremberg ("Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938)
- The Roman historian Tacitus
once said, that the health and the disease of a state can be measured in
the number of its laws. If we Germans nowadays look at the huge number of
laws, we have to say, that it's not health, but death that we're
approaching. ... It is strange that it is Social Democracy of all
movements, which in the old state complained about exceptions, that now
issues exception laws itself. These exception-laws are means of force and
are created in the parliaments with the help of supranational financial
powers. ...
In the old state an interest rate of more than 6 percent was deemed usury. Today this usury is legalized. It was YOU, the men of the left -- who always pretend to fight against capitalism and exploitation -- who accomplished this. It will be your downfall! - Der römische Geschichtsschreiber
Tacitus hat einmal gesagt, dass man die Gesundheit und die Krankheit
eines Staates nach der Zahl seiner Gesetze ermessen könne. Wenn wir
Deutsche heute die große Zahl unserer Gesetze betrachten, dann müssen wir
sagen, dass wir nicht der Gesundheit, sondern dem Tode entgegengehen. ...
Es ist sonderbar, dass ausgerechnet die Sozialdemokratie, die sich im
alten Staat immer über Ausnahmen aufgeregt hat, jetzt selbst
Ausnahmegesetze erläßt! Diese Ausnahmegesetze sind Zwangsmittel und
werden in den Parlamenten mit Hilfe überstaatlicher Finanzmächte
geschaffen. ...
Im alten Staate galt ein Zinsfuß von mehr als 6 Prozent als Wucher. Heute ist dieser Wucher gesetzlich genehmigt. Das haben SIE, meine Herren von der Linken, die Sie immer vorgeben, Kapitalismus und Ausbeutung zu bekämpfen, fertiggebracht! Daran werden Sie zugrunde gehen! - 04/20/1926, speech in the Bavarian regional parliament ("Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938)
- If you know these things, the question has enormous importance: who will be the judge in the future? It is not trivial, who is the judge. It's not sufficient to dress somebody in a robe, put a beret on his head and open the lawbook! It's a big difference whether a German or a negro takes place on the judgement seat. Sure, you can teach a negro the German language, the schematic application of laws and paragraphs -- and yet the negro will always judge like his blood commands!
- Wenn man diese Dinge weiß, dann ist die Frage von ungeheurer Bedeutung: Wer soll künftig Richter sein? Es ist nicht gleichgültig, wer Richter ist. Damit, dass einer die schwarze Robe anlegt, das Barett aufsetzt und das Gesetzbuch aufschlägt, ist es nicht getan! Es ist ein großer Unterschied, ob ein Deutscher oder ein Neger auf dem Richterstuhl sitzt. Gewiß, Sie können einen Neger die deutsche Sprache, die schematische Anwendung der Gesetze und Paragraphen lehren -- trotzdem wird der Neger immer so richten, wie es ihm sein Blut gebietet!
- 04/20/1926, speech in the Bavarian regional parliament ("Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938)
- And further, I tell you that the Jew is right, when he acts as he does – because we are too timid to be as German as the Jew is Jewish! ... It happened at the time of the [Bavarian] Soviet Republic: When the unleashed subhumans rambled murdering through the streets, the deputies hid behind a chimney in the Bavarian parliament.
- Und weiter sage ich Ihnen noch, dass der Jude recht hat, wenn er so handelt, wie er handelt - weil wir Deutsche zu feige sind, so deutsch zu sein, wie der Jude jüdisch ist! ... Es war zur Zeit der Räteherrschaft. Als das losgelassene Untermenschentum mordend durch die Straßen zog, da versteckten sich Abgeordnete hinter einem Kamin im bayerischen Landtag.
- 05/25/1927, speech in the Bavarian regional parliament ("Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938)
- Who are the moneylenders? They are those who were driven out of the Temple by Christ Himself 2000 years ago. They are those who never work but live on fraud.
- Wer sind aber die Geldverleiher? Es sind die, welche schon vor 2000 Jahren von Christus aus dem Tempel gejagt wurden. Es sind die, welche niemals arbeiten, sondern nur vom Betruge leben.
- 06/01/1927, speech in the Bavarian regional parliament ("Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938)
- Social Democracy preached against capitalism for half a century. After the November revolution the Reds had the opportunity to direct capitalism into the proper paths: but nothing happened!
- Die Sozialdemokratie hat ein halbes Jahrhundert den Kampf gegen den Kapitalismus gepredigt. Nach der Novemberrevolution hatten die Roten Gelegenheit, den Kapitalismus in richtige Bahnen zu leiten: aber es geschah nichts!
- 06/01/1927, speech in the Bavarian regional parliament ("Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938)
- In Soviet-Russia the Jew is forging the tool with which he wants to enslave Europe.
- In Sowjet-Rußland schmiedet sich der Jude das Werkzeug, mit dem er Europa versklaven will.
- 04/25/1928, speech in the Bavarian regional parliament ("Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938)
- A moment ago a deputy of the communist party pleaded for the abortion of developing life. ... In Russia there has been a soviet rule for ten years already. ... Where is the promised paradise after these ten years? Where is the foretold happiness? Is that supposed to be the happiness that in Russia the abortion has been legalized?
- Vorhin ist eine Abgeordnete der Kommunistischen Partei in ihrer Rede für die Abtreibung des keimenden Lebens eingetreten. ... In Rußland besteht seit zehn Jahren die Sowjetherrschaft. ... Wo ist nach diesen zehn Jahren das vielgepriesene Paradies geblieben? Wo ist das verheißene Glück? Besteht vielleicht das Glück darin, daß in Rußland die Möglichkeit der Abtreibung zum Gesetz erhoben wurde?
- 02/22/1929, speech in the Bavarian regional parliament ("Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938)
- You may baptize as long as you want, but the Jew remains a Jew, the Chinese a Chinese and the Negro a Negro.
- Sie mögen taufen, solange sie wollen: der Jude bleibt Jude, der Chinese Chinese und der Neger Neger.
- 02/22/1929, speech in the Bavarian regional parliament ("Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938)
- Can't you feel that the German
people has carried for seven years from one station of pain to another a
huge cross? Can't you feel that it is persecuted, hounded and whipped
bloody like the Nazarene? If you cannot feel that it is gasping under the
weight of the cross which was burdened on it and that it walks on its way
to Golgatha -- then you're not worth that God the Lord will again let the
sun of his mercy shine upon you. ...
Help us so that in this decisive hour the German people will be freed from the weight of the cross of the yoke of Jewry! Help us, so that a mighty man who's been gifted by God can give us back our freedom and that it will again be a proud people in a German country! Take care that Germany is freed from the chains she has been bound with for seven years. Put an end to this slavery! Our people shall again be great, proud and beautiful! - Fühlt Ihr denn nicht, dass das
deutsche Volk sieben Jahre lang von einer Leidensstation zur anderen ein
Riesenkreuz geschleppt hat? Fühlt Ihr nicht, dass es gejagt, gehetzt und
blutig gepeitscht worden ist wie jener Nazarener? Wenn Ihr nicht fühlt,
dass unser Volk sich keuchend unter der Last des Kreuzes, das man ihm
auflud, auf dem Weg nach Golgatha schleppt, dann seid Ihr nicht wert,
dass unser Herrgott Euch noch einmal mit seiner Gnadensonne bescheint.
...
Helft in dieser entscheidungsvollen Stunde mit, dass das deutsche Volk von der Kreuzeslast des jüdischen Joches befreit wird! Helft mit, dass ein starker, von Gott begnadeter Mann ihm die Freiheit schenkt und dass es wieder ein stolzes Volk in deutschen Landen wird! Sorgt, dass Deutschland von der Kette, die es sieben Jahre lange tragen musste, frei wird. Deshalb heraus aus der Sklaverei! Unser Volk muss wieder groß, stolz und schön werden! - 03/07/1932, speech in the convention center (Kongresshalle) in Nuremberg ("Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938)
- In spite of the fact that the
Jews do not even refrain from attacking Christendom, they are protected by
those who wear the cassock. The Christendom of the early time was
different to the one of today.
The first Christians were fighters, who wanted to free their people from the Jewish ignominy. Then the Jew crept into that community and had the originally pure Christendom ridiculed by mankind. The first Christians were willing to die to defend the Christian doctrine. - Obwohl die Juden auch nicht vor
Angriffen auf das Christentum zurückschrecken, werden sie noch von denen
geschützt, die das Priesterkleid tragen. Das Christentum der ersten Zeit
war ein anderes als das heutige.
Die ersten Christen waren Kämpfer, die ihr Volk von der jüdischen Schmach befreien wollten. Dann stahl sich der Jude in diese Gemeinschaft ein und machte aus dem ursprünglich reinen Christentum ein Gespött der Menschheit. Die ersten Christen waren bereit, für die Erhaltung der christlichen Lehre zu sterben. - 04/21/1932, speech in the Hercules Hall in Nuremberg ("Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938)
- You are blinded and you serve the God of the Jews, who is not the God of love but the God of hatred. Why don't you listen to Christ Himself, who said to the Jews: "Ye are of your father the devil!"
- Ihr seid verblendet und dient dem Gott der Juden, der nicht der Gott der Liebe, sondern der Gott des Hasses ist. Warum hört Ihr nicht auf Christus, der zu den Juden sagte : "Ihr seid Kinder des Teufels!"
- 04/21/1932, speech in Nuremberg, Herkulessaal ("Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938)
- That's why the peoples have to
die -- so that the Jew can live. He drives the peoples to war to make a
profit from the fratricide of the white race.
In the World War 11 million gentiles had to die. The Jew was the winner. - Deswegen müssen die Völker
sterben, damit der Jude leben kann. Er hetzt die Völker zum Krieg, um aus
dem Brudermord der weißen Rasse Gewinn zu ziehen.
Im Weltkrieg mussten 11 Millionen Nichtjuden sterben. Der Jude aber war der Sieger. - 05/20/1932, speech in the Hercules Hall in Nuremberg ("Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938)
- They are hated because they
satisfy their greed according to Talmudic principles. In the Jewish
lawbook "Talmud" the Jews are told that the possessions of
gentiles were "ownerless property", which the Jew was allowed to
obtain through deceit and cheating. Whatever the "profession"
may be called where the Jew earns his money, everywhere he remains a Jew.
Such criminal behavior must inevitably provoke the hatred of Jews
(anti-Semitism) and fighting repulsion. The fight that the Nazarene led
2000 years ago against the Jewish usurers resulted in a gruesome way of
suffering and his slaughter at Calvary. The judgement passed by Jesus on
the Jews marks the Jewish people for all time:
"Ye are of your father the devil! He was a murderer from the beginning." (John 8:44-45) - Sie werden gehasst, weil sie
ihre Gier nach Geld nach talmudischen Grundsätzen befriedigen. Im
jüdischen Gesetzbuch "Talmud" wird den Juden gesagt, dass der
Besitz der Nichtjuden "herrenloses Gut" sei, den der Jude durch
Wucher, durch Betrug und Übervorteilung an sich bringen dürfe. Und wie
der "Beruf" auch heißen mag, in dem der Jude sein Geld
verdient, überall ist und bleibt er Jude. Solch verbrecherisches
Verhalten muss zwangsläufig den Hass gegen die Juden (Antisemitismus)
erzeugen und Abwehrkämpfe heraufbeschwören. Der Kampf, den der Nazarener
vor 2000 Jahren gegen die jüdischen Zinseintreiber führte, endete mit
einem grauenvollen Leidensweg und seiner Hinschlachtung auf Golgatha. Das
Urteil, das Jesus Christus über die Juden fällte, kennzeichnet das Volk
der Juden für alle Zeiten:
"Ich habt zum Vater nicht Gott, sondern den Teufel. Er war ein Verbrecher und Menschenmörder von Anfang an". (Joh. VIII | 44,45.) - Foreword to the book "Juden stellen sich vor", Stürmer publishing house, 1934
- The way that Adolf Hitler chose to follow to rescue the German people was an inner and outer one. Inwards he overcame the Jewish power by destroying Marxism and the secret lodges. Thereby he removed the hindrances which prevented building a German people's community. Outwards he broke the slave chains of Versailles by rebuilding the People's Army, bringing home those of the German people that had been ripped out, defeating Jewry's vassals and laying the foundation for a Europe that is liberated from Jewish financial power.
- Der Weg, den Adolf Hitler zur Rettung des deutschen Volkes zu gehen sich entschlossen hatte, führte nach innen und nach außen. Nach innen überwand er die Machtpositionen des Juden durch Ausrottung des Marxismus und durch die Vernichtung der Geheimbünde. Damit wurden die Hemmnisse weggeräumt, die der Schaffung einer deutschen Volksgemeinschaft entgegenstanden. Nach außen zerbrach er die Sklavenketten von Versailles durch Wiederherstellung des Volksheeres, Heimholung der aus dem Reichsverband gerissenen Volksteile, Niederzwingung der Großvasallen des Weltjuden und Grundsteinlegung eines von der jüdischen Geldmacht befreiten Europas.
- Stürmer, August 22, 1940
- When the Jew says
"mankind" he is talking about himself. It is written in the
Talmud, that only Jews were human beings, gentiles on the other hand were
animals created to serve the chosen people.
If looking back and comparing the corresponding articles in the "democratic" and "neutral" countries, one is astonished at the systematic nature of the propaganda whose final goal was the creation of a state of affairs in which a war was inevitable. - Mit der "Menschheit"
meint nämlich der Jude sich selbst, die Gesamtheit der Juden. Steht doch
im Talmud geschrieben, dass nur die Juden Menschen seien, die Nichtjuden
dagegen Tiere, die dazu erschaffen wurden, damit sie dem auserwählten
Volk der Juden besser dienen könnten.
Vergleicht man zurückschauend die darauf bezüglichen Artikel in den "demokratischen" und "neutralen" Ländern, dann staunt man über die Planmäßigkeit jener Propaganda, deren Endziel die Schaffung eines Zustandes war, der zwangsläufig zum Krieg führen musste. - Stürmer, September 5, 1940
- In all peoples where Jews have lived as tolerated people or do so today, they prove to be disturbers of the inner peace and thus the destroyers of naturally grown people's communities. The Old Testament, which as the Jews claim tells their history, is at the same time the history of the peoples that the Jews destroyed physically and spiritually. The Jew does not only prove to be the disturber of the natural development within the peoples. He is also the destroyer of peace between the peoples.
- In allen Völkern, in denen Juden als Geduldete lebten oder heute noch leben, erwiesen sie sich als Störer des inneren Friedens und damit als Vernichter natürlich gewordener Volksgemeinschaften. Das Alte Testament der Bibel, von dem die Juden behaupten, dass es ihre Geschichte enthalte, ist zugleich die Geschichte von Völkern, die von den Juden materiell und geistig zugrunde gerichtet wurden. Der Jude hat sich aber nicht allein als Störer der natürlichen Entwicklung in den Völkern erwiesen. Er ist auch der Vernichter des Friedens unter den Völkern.
- Stürmer, October 17, 1940
- The Jew always lives from the blood of other peoples, he needs such murders and such sacrifices. The victory will be only entirely and finally achieved when the whole world is free of Jews.
- 1937 speech, quoted in "The Trial of the Germans" - Page 57 - by Eugene Davidson - History - 1997
- There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism.
- Der Stürmer, May 1939, quoted in "The Trial of the Germans" - Page 50 - by Eugene Davidson - History - 1997
- This is our mission at home, to approach these future decisions without hesitation, to do our duty and to remain strong. We know the enemy, we have called him by name for the last twenty years: he is the World Jew. And we know that the Jew must die.
- October 31, 1939 speech, quoted in "The Trial of the Germans" - Page 50 - by Eugene Davidson - History - 1997
- Developments since the rise of National Socialism make it probable that the continent will be freed from its Jewish destroyers of people and exploiters forever, and the German example after the German victory in World War II will also serve to bring about the destruction of the Jewish world tormentors on other continents.
- Der Stürmer, January 6, 1944, quoted in "The Trial of the Germans" - Page 57 - by Eugene Davidson - History - 1997
- My publication was for a fine purpose. Certain snobs may now look down on it and call it common or even pornographic, but until the end of the war, I had Hitler's greatest respect, and Der Stürmer had the party's complete support. At our height, we had a circulation of 1.5 million. Everybody read Der Stürmer, and they must have liked it or they wouldn't have bought it. The aim of Der Stürmer was to unite Germans and to awaken them against Jewish influence which might ruin our noble culture.
- To Leon Goldensohn, April 6, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
- Hitler promised me protection after I had participated in the Munich putsch in 1923. I am very proud that I marched alongside Hitler in that affair. Hitler was never forgetful of that fact, and his faith and confidence in me was unshaken until the end. I, in turn, never broke my oath of loyalty to him.
- To Leon Goldensohn, April 6, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
- Christ was a Jew, and God, he is supposed to have made the universe. That's a little far-fetched because if God made the world, who made God?
- To Leon Goldensohn, April 6, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
- I was all for setting up a separate Jewish state in Madagascar or Palestine or someplace, but not to exterminate them. Besides, by exterminating 4 million Jews - they say 5 or 6 million at this trial, but that is all propaganda, I am sure it wasn't more than 4.5 million - they have made martyrs out of those Jews. For example, because of the extermination of these Jews, anti-Semitism has been set back many years in certain foreign countries where it had been making good progress.
- To Leon Goldensohn, April 6, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
- The main thing I tried to stress was how badly I was treated in the American camp at Freising, but the American prosecutor and the judges ruled that my comments on my poor treatment there had to be expunged from the record because it was irrelevant. I don't think it is irrelevant when we National Socialists are accused of war crimes and of murdering 5 million Jews and millions of other innocent people such as partisans, hostages, war prisoners. Therefore, I should have been allowed to insert into the record of this trial how badly I was treated personally as a prisoner of war, after the war was over, mind you, in Freising.
- To Leon Goldensohn, June 15, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
- It is a trial within a nation but a trial of victors against the vanquished. Even before the trials started, the victors who are our judges were quite convinced that we were guilty and that we should all pay the price.
- To Leon Goldensohn, June 15, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
- I remember reports that the American and English newspapers were very happy about the fact that so many were killed in Dresden. There are many instances of barbarity and cruelty on the part of the Allies which I could tell you.
- To Leon Goldensohn, June 15, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
- It's perfectly understandable and proper for one to be anti-Semite, but to exterminate women and children is so extraordinary, it's hard to believe. No defendant here wanted that.
- To Leon Goldensohn, June 15, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
- Yes, I believe I had a part in it insofar as for years I have written that any further mixture of German blood with Jewish blood must be avoided. I have written such articles again and again; and in my articles I have repeatedly emphasized the fact that the Jews should serve as an example to every race, for they created the racial law for themselves - the law of Moses, which says, "If you come into a foreign land you shall not take unto yourself foreign women." And that, Gentlemen, is of tremendous importance in judging the Nuremberg Laws. These laws of the Jews were taken as a model for these laws. When after centuries, the Jewish lawgiver Ezra demonstrated that notwithstanding many Jews had married non-Jewish women, these marriages were dissolved. That was the beginning of Jewry which, because it introduced these racial laws, has survived throughout the centuries, while all other races and civilizations have perished.
- After Streicher was asked about his participation in the Nuremberg Race laws of 1935. Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945 - 1 October 1946, Volume 12, Secretariat of the Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany, page 315
- Germans must fight Jews, that organized body of world criminals against whom Christ, the greatest anti-Semite of all time, had fought.
- Quoted in "Hitler's Elite, Shocking Profiles of the Reich's Most Notorious Henchmen," Berkley Books, 1990
- Only the Jews had remained victorious after the dreadful days of World War I. These were the people of whom Christ said, "Its father is the devil."
- Quoted in "Anti-Judaism and the Fourth Gospel" - Page 14 - by Reimund Bieringer, Didier Pollefeyt, Frederique Vandecasteele-Vanneuville - Religion - 2001
- Anti-Semitic publications have existed in Germany for centuries. A book I had, written by Dr. Martin Luther, was, for instance, confiscated. Dr. Martin Luther would very probably sit in my place in the defendants' dock today, if this book had been taken into consideration by the Prosecution. In this book The Jews and Their Lies, Dr. Martin Luther writes that the Jews are a serpent's brood and one should burn down their synagogues and destroy them...
- Quoted in "The Destruction of the European Jews: Third Edition" - by Raul Hilberg - History - 2003
- Two niggers undressed me and tore my shirt in two. I kept only my pants. Being handcuffed, I could not pull them up when they fell down. So now I was naked. Four days! On the fourth day, I was so cold that my body was numb. I couldn't hear anything. Every two - four hours (even in the night!) Niggers came along under command of a white man and hammered at me. Cigarette burns on the nipples. Fingers gouged into eye-sockets. Eyebrows and chest hair pulled out. Genitals beaten with an oxwhip. Testicles very swollen. Spat at. "Mouth open" and was spat into. When I refused to open, my jaws were pried apart with a stick and my mouth spat into. Beaten with a whip - swollen, dark-blue whelps all over the body... Photographed naked! Jeered at wearing an old army greatcoat which they hung round me.
- Note handed to his lawyer, Dr. Hans Marx, about the torture he endured in his cell. Quoted in "Julius Streicher" - Page 42 - by Randall L. Bytwerk - 2001
- He who knows the truth and does not speak it is a miserable coward.
- Alternate version: He who knows the truth and does not speak it truly is a miserable creature.
- Quoted in "Julius Streicher" - Page 211 - By Randall L. Bytwerk
- A people that does not protect its racial purity will perish!
- Excerpt from a 1934 speech in the film Triumph of the Will
About Julius Streicher
- Bravo, Streicher!
- Rudolf Hess yells this out from his cell when Streicher refused to get dressed for his execution, 10/16/46
- This Streicher affair is a tragedy...Streicher is irreplaceable...There's no question of his coming back but I must do him justice. If one day I write my memoirs, I shall have to recognize that this man fought like a buffalo in our cause...I can't help thinking that, in comparison with so many services, the reasons for Streicher's dismissal are really very slender.
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