Julius Streicher (12 February 1885 – 16 October 1946) was the Gauleiter of Franconia from 1925 to 16 February 1940, preceding Karl Holz. He was a famous author and propagandist of Nazi Germany who wrote "The Poisonous Mushroom" to spread anti-Semitic propaganda. After the war, he was charged with crimes against humanity in the Nuremberg Trials and executed.
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Julius Streicher was born on 12 February 1885 in Fleinhausen, Bavaria in the German Empire. He served in World War I in the Imperial German Army and ended the war as a Lieutenant, joining the far-right Freikorps during the German Revolution. Streicher became an author after World War I's end, and after being inspired by Adolf Hitler at a 1922 rally, he joined the Nazi Party and merged his views with Hitler's. He founded the Der Sturmer propaganda magazine, which stated that Jews sought to enslave the Aryan race, and he took part in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch in Munich. In 1925, when the Nazi Party was legalized, Streicher became the gauleiter of Franconia, at that point a powerless political functionary. He felt slighted when he was not consulted about the passage of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935, and his excesses and irresponsible behavior led to his fall from grace with other Nazi leaders. Streicher was executed by hanging in 1946 for crimes against humanity and his role in the Holocaust.
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