Justice & Law Quote by Julius Streicher

Streicher’s line is propaganda doing its ugliest work: laundering genocide into “quotation.” By pinning a lurid claim on “the Talmud,” he borrows the prestige of textual authority to make hatred sound like scholarship. The phrasing is built for a crowd, not a library. “It is written” signals inevitability; no need to argue, only to accept. “Only the Jew is human” flips victim and perpetrator, recasting Jews as the true dehumanizers so that anti-Jewish violence can be sold as self-defense, even moral hygiene.

The subtext is a legal and emotional permission slip. If Jews supposedly view non-Jews as animals, then stripping Jews of rights becomes not only permissible but prudent: why extend protections to a group imagined as fundamentally hostile to “real” humanity? Streicher isn’t trying to interpret rabbinic literature; he’s trying to create a paranoid consensus where complexity itself looks like complicity. The rhetoric depends on a familiar technique: pick a sacred text most listeners won’t read, summarize it in a grotesque paraphrase, then treat disbelief as naive.

Context matters because this isn’t an isolated slur from a “soldier.” Streicher was a central Nazi agitator (publisher of Der Sturmer), convicted at Nuremberg for incitement. The quote fits a broader Nazi pattern: portray Jews as both subhuman and secretly dominant, an enemy so contradictory it can be blamed for anything. It’s a sentence engineered to make mass cruelty feel like common sense.