Streicher, Fips & Der Stürmer
Mark Bryant looks at the cartoons that adorned one of the Nazis’ most reviled newspapers.
Julius Streicher was notorious not only as the fanatical bull-necked, whip-wielding ‘Beast of Nuremberg’, who organized the first annual Nazi rally in the city in 1927, but also as the founder of the virulently anti-semitic and anti-Communist weekly newspaper, Der Stürmer. First published in 1923, it ran for twenty-two years and became one of the most widely read publications in Germany, selling half a million copies a week at its peak and being praised by Hitler himself. It began as a small-format four-page local scandal sheet, but later developed into a sixteen-page national illustrated tabloid. From 1930 it regularly carried photographs, but the most prominent feature of the paper from December 1925 onwards was its front-page cartoons signed ‘Fips’ – the pseudonym of Philipp Rupprecht.
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