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| |  | | Julius Streicher | | | context : | Nazi Germany  | | judgement place : | IMT - Nurenberg | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Streicher was executed by hanging on 16 October 1946 | | position : | Head of the Nazi Party in Franconia and Newspaper Editor |
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| | | | Julius Streicher was arrested on 23 May 1945.
Charged under Count 1 (Common Plan or Conspiracy), and 4 (Crimes against Humanity), he pleaded not guilty.
Streicher’s defence was to argue that all he did was to write, write and write, and never to take action.
The Nuremberg International Military Tribunal did not follow his line of argument. Streicher was indeed acquitted on Count 1, it being considered that that he had never been in attendance, for example, in important meetings during which Hitler disclosed his plans to his principal chiefs of staff. On the other hand, the judges condemned him for Crimes against Humanity. In the opinion of the Tribunal “the fact of Streicher’s incitement to murder and extermination, at a time when the Jews in the East were being massacred under unspeakable conditions, was manifestly persecution for political and racial reasons in keeping with war crimes as set forth in the Statute, and a Crime against Humanity”.
The Tribunal therefore found Streicher guilty on Count 4 of the Indictment and condemned him to death on 1st October 1946.
Streicher did not wish to appeal the sentence but his lawyer proceeded to do so. The appeal to the Control Council was rejected on 10 October 1946.
Julius Streicher was executed by hanging on 16 October 1946. His last words were “Heil Hitler”. | |    | | Trial Watch would like to remind its users that any person charged by national or international authorities is presumed innocent until proven guilty. | |  |  | | nationality : | | | Germany | | | date of birth : | | | 12.02.1885 | | | judgement period : | | | 20.11.1945 - 10.10.1946 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity | | | profile last modified : | | | 21.12.2004 |
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