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Professional Tool. In contrast to some Nazis who have been addicts of drink, drugs, homosexuality or women, Himmler seems almost normal. He has never paid much visible attention to the neurotic mysticism of Hitler or to the abstruse ideologies of Rosenberg. Unlike the bestial Julius Streicher, he does not appear to delight in brutality for its own sake. He simply uses terror with absolute cold-bloodedness and efficiency as his main professional tool...
...Guide for the Bedevilled is written with ample hatred. Author Hecht's love for the Jews is expressed in phobic language suggestive of Nazi Julius Streicher's obscene anti-Jewish paper, Der Stürmer. Hechtic sample: Anti-Semites are "Spiritual harelips, tormented homosexuals, lonely sadists . . . bile peddlers . . . invalids whose . . . bladders drip and whose hearts are a sackful of worms . . . religious zanies who woo God by spitting in His eye . . . mincing and bepimpled, clapper-tongued and swivel-brained . . . lame ducks...
Startled readers wondered whether the strange book was a landmark, the first appearance of the Streicher mind in the U. S. Few recognized the name of the author, Theodore N. Kaufman. But in 1939 it had appeared as chairman of the American Federation of Peace, which urged Congress either 1) to keep the U. S. out of Europe's wars, or 2) to sterilize all Americans so that their children might not become homicidal monsters. In step with the times, Sterilizer Kaufman had simply transferred his basic idea to the enemy...
...motion picture camera and a printing press for the front. The first blood I saw was that of the children of Getafe, terribly cut in pieces by Nazi bombs. Two weeks later I saw the pictures of those unhappy children published in the German anti-Semitic newspaper of Mr. Streicher, and I had to read the incredible, cynical text beyond the pictures: "Look how the Reds in Spain kill their own children !" It was this cynicism of the enemy (and not an insane passion of mine for the "smell of blood") which decided me to enter the brigades which your...
...Jews, Strasser "finds the Streicher-Stiirmer form of anti-Semitism ... as stupid as it is repugnant, but . . . would retain, in dignified form, measures of restriction against the excessive spread of Jewish influence...