Wealth & Money Quote by Julius Streicher

Streicher’s line is a tight piece of genocidal rhetoric disguised as political strategy: it doesn’t argue, it poisons. The surface claim is tactical - you’ll never threaten “big money” while your leaders are “blood brothers” and your party officials are “Jewish lackeys.” The intent is to rewire economic frustration into racial grievance, so that anger at inequality becomes loyalty to a scapegoating project.

The phrasing performs two moves at once. First, it collapses complex structures of finance and power into a personalized conspiracy (“big money men”), then smuggles in the “real” explanation: Jews as hidden handlers. Second, it polices the in-group. “Blood brothers” implies a closed, ethnically bound fraternity; “lackeys” is a humiliation word, branding any non-antisemitic official as servile and contaminated. It’s not persuasion so much as purification - a way to force political opponents (and wavering allies) into a false choice: accept the antisemitic frame or be labeled compromised.

Context matters because Streicher wasn’t a mere soldier; he was one of Nazi Germany’s most vicious propagandists, publisher of Der Sturmer, later convicted at Nuremberg for incitement. This kind of sentence functioned as social engineering. It trained audiences to see Jews not as neighbors but as infrastructure for an enemy system, making violence feel like “self-defense” and exclusion feel like reform. The cruel elegance is that it offers a dopamine hit of clarity: one villain, one cause, one cleansing solution - and a nation absolved of harder questions about capitalism, governance, and complicity.