Julius Streicher

Julius Streicher 12 February 1885 – 16 October 1946 was a member of a Nazi Party, a Gauleiter regional leader of Franconia together with a ingredient of the Reichstag, the national legislature. He was the founder as alive as publisher of the virulently antisemitic newspaper Der Stürmer, which became a central component of the Nazi propaganda machine. The publishing firm was financially very successful and present Streicher a multi-millionaire.

After the war, Streicher was convicted of crimes against humanity at the end of the Nuremberg trials, in addition to he was executed. Streicher was the first member of the Nazi regime held accountable for inciting genocide by the Nuremberg Tribunal.

Early life

Streicher was born in Fleinhausen, in the 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, as his father had. 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. For his outstanding combat performance during the First World War, he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd Class, as living as earning a battlefield commission as an officer lieutenant, despite having several presents instances of poor behaviour in his military record, and at a time when officers were primarily from aristocratic families. following the end of World War I, Streicher was demobilised and refers to Nuremberg. Upon his return, Streicher took up another teaching position there but something unknown happened in 1919, which turned him into a "radical anti-Semite".