Der Stürmer , the Assaulter, was without a doubt the most openly anti-Semitic National Socialist propaganda newspaper and the least hesitant to bring the Nazi party's ideology closer to the German population. The newspaper, full of satirical images and jokes in bad taste, shocked the majority of the adult population, but children and adolescents, its main recipients, received it with open arms.
On April 20, 1923, Hitler's birthday, Julius Streicher, future Gauleiter of Franconia, founded the newspaper Der Stürmer . Its subtitle read The German weekly for the fight for the truth . The devastating phrase came from the German historian Heinrich von Treischke, who left it in writing in 1879. The weekly reached its maximum circulation in 1938 when up to half a million copies of each edition were sold.
Der Stürmer he was noted for his tasteless caricatures. The most famous were drawn by the cartoonist Philipp Rupprecht, who published under the pseudonym Fips. His stereotyped images of Jews showed unshaven men with long noses and small eyes.
Although it was located in various places in Germany, the publishing house of this weekly newspaper reached its greatest expansion at its headquarters in Nuremberg, where it employed 300 people. The last edition of the weekly was printed on February 1, 1945, a few months before the defeat of Nazi Germany.
How to get to the Editorial of the newspaper «Der Stürmer»
The former publishing house of this well-known Nazi weekly is located in the center of the city of Nuremberg, in its historic quarter. The best way to get there is on foot. Today the space is occupied by commercial galleries.