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bitterness and extremism. In an article appearing in
Der Stürmer on 19 March 1942 he complained that Christian teachings
have stood in the way of "racial solution of the Jewish question in
Europe", and quoted enthusiastically as the twentieth century
solution the Führer's proclamation of February 24, 1942 that "the
Jew will be exterminated." And on November 4, 1943 Streicher
declared in Der Stürmer that the Jews "have
disappeared from Europe and that the Jewish 'Reservoir of the East' from
which the Jewish plague has for centuries beset the people of Europe,
has ceased to exist." Streicher now has the effrontery to tell us
he is "only a Zionist"-he says he wants only to return the
Jews to Palestine. But on May 7, 1942 his newspaper, Der Stürmer,
had this to say:
"It
is also not only a European problem! The Jewish question is a world
question! Not only is Germany not safe in the face of the Jews as long
as one Jew lives in Europe, but also the Jewish question is hardly
solved in Europe so long as Jews live in the rest of the world."
And the Defendant Hans Frank, a
lawyer by profession, I say with shame, summarized in his diary in
1944 the Nazi policy thus: 'The Jews are a race which has to be
eliminated; whenever we catch one, it is his end." (2233-PS, 4
March 1944, P. 26). And earlier, speaking of his function as Governor
General of Poland, he confided to his diary this sentiment: "Of
course I cannot eliminate all lice and Jews in only a year's time"
(2233-PS, Vol. IV, 1940, P. 1158). I could multiply endlessly this
kind of Nazi ranting but I will leave it to the evidence and turn to
the fruit of this perverted thinking.
The
most serious of the actions against Jews were outside of any law, but
the law itself was employed to some extent. There were the infamous
Nuremberg decrees of September 15,1935 (Reichsgesetzblatt
1935, Part. I, P. 1146). The Jews were segregated into ghettos and put
into forced labor; they were expelled from their professions; their
property was expropriated; all cultural life, the press, the theater,
and schools were prohibited them; and the SD was made responsible for
them (212-PS, 069-PS). This was an ominous guardianship, as the
following order for "The Handling of the Jewish Question"
shows:
"The competency
of the Chief of the Security Police and Security Service, who is
charged with the mission of solving the European Jewish question,
extends even to the Occupied Eastern Provinces ....
"An
eventual act by the civilian population against the Jews is not to
be prevented as long as this is compatible with the maintenance of
order and security in the rear of the fighting troops . ...
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