striker striker is indicted on counts one and four one of the earliest members of the nazi party joining in 1921 he took part in the munich push from 1925 to 1940 he was go lighter of franconia elected to the reichstag in 1933 he was an honorary general of the sa his persecution of the jews was notorious he was the publisher of their stomach an anti-semitic weekly newspaper from 1923 to 1945 and was its editor until 1933 crimes against peace striker was a staunch nausea nazi and supporter of hitler's main policy there is no evidence to
show that he was ever within hitler's inner circle of advisors nor during his career but he closely connected with the formulation of the policies which led to war he was never present for example at any of the important conferences when hitler explained his decisions for his leaders although he was a gaul lighter there is no evidence to prove that he had knowledge of these policies in the opinion of the tribunal the evidence fails to establish his connection with the conspiracy of common plan to wage aggressive war as that conspiracy conspiracy has been elsewhere defined in
this judgment crimes against humanity for his 25 years of speaking writing and preaching hatred of the jews striker was widely known as jew beta 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 each issue of destoma which reached a circulation of 600 000 in 1935 was filled with such articles often lewd and disgusting striker had charge of the jewish boycott of april the 1st 1933 he advocated the nuremberg decrees of 1935. he was responsible
for the demolition on august 10th 1938 at the synagogue in nirenberg and on november the 10th 1938 he spoke publicly in support of the jewish program which was taking place at that time but it was not only in germany this defendant advocated his doctrines as early as 1938 he began to call for the annihilation of the jewish race twenty three different articles of destroma between 1938 and 1941 were produced in evidence in which extermination root and branch was preached typical of his teachings was a leading article in september 1938 which termed the jew a germ
and a pest not a human being but a parasite an enemy an evil doer a disseminator of diseases who must be destroyed in the interests of mankind other articles urged that only when world jury had been annihilated would the jewish problem have been solved and predicted that 50 years hence the jewish graves will proclaim that this people of murderers and criminals has after all met its deserved faith striker in february 1940 published a letter for one of dershturma's readers which compared jews with swarms of locusts which must be exterminated completely such was the poisoned striker
injected into the minds of thousands of germans which caused them to follow the national socialist policy of jewish persecution and extermination a leading article of their stroma in may 1939 shows clearly his aim a punitive expedition must come against the jews in russia a punitive expedition which will provide the same fate for them that every murderer and criminal must expect death sentence and execution the jews in russia must be killed they must be exterminated root and branch as the war in the early stages proved successful in acquiring more and more territory for the reich striker
even intensified his efforts to incite the germans against the jews in the record are 26 articles from der sterma published between august 1941 and september 1944 12 by striker's own hand which demanded annihilation and extermination in unequivocal terms he wrote and published on december 25 1941 if the danger of the reproduction of that curse of god in the jewish blood is to finally come to an end then there is only one way the extermination of that people whose father is the devil and in february 1944 his own article stated whoever does what a jew does
is a scoundrel a criminal and he who repeats and wishes to copy him deserves the same fate annihilation death with knowledge of the extermination of the jews in the occupied eastern territory this defendant continued to write and publish his propaganda of death testifying in this trial he vehemently denied any knowledge of mass executions of jews but the evidence makes it clear that he continually received current information on the progress of the final solution his press photographer was sent to visit the ghettos of the east in the spring of 1943 the time of the destruction of
the warsaw ghetto the jewish newspaper israelite and borgenblatt which striker received and read carried in each issue accounts of jewish atrocities in the east and gave figures on the number of jews who had been deported and killed for example issues appearing in the summer and fall of 1942 reported the death of 72 729 jews in warsaw 17 542 in lots 18 000 in croatia 125 000 in romania 14 000 in latvia 85 000 in yugoslavia 700 000 in all of poland in november 1943 striker quoted verbatim an article from the israelites of odenblatt which stated
that the jews had virtually disappeared from europe and commented this is not a jewish lie in december 1942 referring to an article in the london times about the atrocities aiming at extermination striker said that hitler had given warning that the second world war would lead to the destruction of jury in january 1943 he wrote and published an article which said that hitler's prophesy was being fulfilled that world journey was being extirpated and it was wonderful to know that hitler was freeing the world of its jewish tom minters in the face of the evidence before the
tribunal it is idle for striker to suggest that the solution of the jewish problem which he favored was strictly limited to the classification of jews as aliens and the passing of discriminatory legislation such as the nuremberg laws supplemented if possible by international agreement on the creation of a jewish state somewhere in the world to which all jews should emigrate strikers 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 conclusion the tribunal finds that stryker is not guilty on count one but he is guilty on count four you
