13 Dec.
45
I now offer Document 2662-PS, Mein Kampf,
Exhibit Number USA-256. On Pages 724-725, Hitler, in this book, speaking
of the Jew, said that if the National Socialist movement was to fulfill
its task — and I quote:
"It must open the eyes of the people
with regard to foreign nations and must remind them again and again of
the true enemy of our present-day world. In the place of hate against
Aryans — from whom we may be separated by almost everything but
to whom, however, we are tied by common blood or the great tie of a
common culture it must dedicate to the general anger the evil enemy of
mankind as the true cause of all suffering.
"It must see to it, however, that at least in our country he be
recognized as the most mortal enemy and that the struggle against him
may show, like a flaming beacon of a better era, to other nations,
too, the road to salvation for a struggling Aryan mankind."
A flood of abusive literature of all types and for all age groups was
published and circulated throughout Germany. Illustrative of this type
of publication is the book entitled Der Giftpilz. I offer in
evidence Document 1778-PS, Exhibit Number USA-257. This book brands the
Jew as a persecutor of the labor class, as a race defiler, devil in
human form, a poisonous mushroom, and a murderer. This particular book
instructed school children to recognize the Jew by caricature of his
physical features, shown on Pages 6 and 7; taught them that the Jew
abuses little boys and girls, on Page 30; and that the Jewish Bible
permits all crimes, Pages 13-17. The Defendant Streicher's periodical
Der Stürmer, Number 14, April 1937, in particular, went to
such extremes as to publish the statement that Jews at the ritual
celebration of their Passover slaughtered Christians. I offer Document
2699-PS, Exhibit Number USA-258. On Page 2, Column 1, Paragraphs 6 to 9,
1 quote: I
"Also the numerous confessions made
by the Jews show that the execution of ritual murders is a law of the
Talmud Jew. The former chief Rabbi (and later monk) Teofiti declares
that the ritual murders take place especially on the Jewish Purim (in
memory of the Persian murders) and Passover (in memory of the murder
of Christ). The rules are as follows:
"The blood of the victims is to be tapped by force. On Passover
it is to be used in wine and matzos. Thus a small part of the blood is
to be poured into the dough of the matzos and into the wine. The
mixing is done by the head of the Jewish family.