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...Industrialist Gustav Krupp von Bohlen was there, and so were Militarists Keitel, Jodl, Raeder and Doenitz. There were Financiers Funk and Schacht, ex-Foreign Ministers von Neurath and von Ribbentrop and the cloak-&-dagger diplomat, Franz von Papen; there were names once famous in the Nazi hierarchy -Hess and Streicher, Ley and Rosenberg, and Gauleiter Seyss-Inquart (Netherlands) and von Schirach (Austria). And along with the familiar names were others: Sauckel, the slave-herder; Hans Fritzsche, the propagandist; ex-Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick; Ernst Kalten-brunner, originator of mass execution by gas, and Albert Speer. the brilliant, ruthless organizer...
Some of the Nazis resented their enforced association with such low characters as bald, bewhiskered Jew-baiter Julius Streicher and the disconsolate ex-führer of the Labor Front, Robert Ley. But all were forced to eat their plain meals together...
Reactions differed at the first showing. Goring exclaimed: "That's the type of film we used to show our Russian prisoners." Streicher sat on his chair's edge, clasped and unclasped his hands. Field Marshal Kesselring's face blanched. Hans Frank, the butcher of Poland's Jews, stuffed his handkerchief in his mouth and gagged. Ribbentrop left the room with head bowed. But he walked straight to the dining room...
...Julius Streicher, onetime Führer of Franconia and publisher of the pornographically anti-Semitic Stunner, who had contributed as much as any one individual to the torment of European Jewry. Jailed, he maintained that he had tried only to get the Jews out of Germany and into Palestine. But, gazing at his jailers, he would scream in the next breath: "Jews, Jews, Jews-Since I was taken all I have seen is Jews...
...Julius Streicher, the obscene and sadistic Jew-baiter who became Gauleiter of Franconia...