Justice & Law Quote by Julius Streicher

A smear dressed up as bureaucracy: Streicher’s genius, such as it was, lay in making paranoia sound like procedure. “Court files… located in Rome” isn’t a citation so much as a stage set. Rome functions as a coded power center - distant, secretive, supposedly authoritative - and it lets him imply that the ultimate proof exists just out of reach of ordinary verification. “There are pictures in it” adds a cheap veneer of empiricism, the old propagandist move of swapping evidence for the atmosphere of evidence. You’re meant to feel the weight of documentation without ever getting to touch it.

The phrase “ritual murder” is doing the real work. It’s a medieval blood-libel concept imported into modern legal language, turning an antisemitic fantasy into something that sounds like a docket item. Streicher is not arguing a case; he’s laundering myth through institutions - court archives, the Church - so the audience can tell itself it’s being rational, even responsible, while absorbing poison.

The subtext of “in 23 cases” is arithmetic as moral leverage: a precise number implies investigation, repetition, pattern. It’s also an invitation to think in categories rather than humans. Once you accept “cases,” you’re primed to accept “solutions.”

Context matters: Streicher was a central Nazi agitator whose project was incitement, not inquiry. By invoking “the Church itself,” he tries to recruit religious authority to sanctify state hatred, bridging two legitimizing systems - confession and prosecution - into a single story of supposed menace. The intent is clear: normalize the accusation, widen the coalition, and make persecution feel like due diligence.