Success Quote by Julius Streicher

Streicher’s line is genocide stripped of euphemism: not a call to “defeat” an enemy, but to erase a people from the world. The phrase “only entirely and finally” isn’t rhetorical flourish; it’s a blueprint for totality. By defining “victory” as impossible until Jews are gone everywhere, he turns mass murder into a logical necessity, pre-empting any compromise, surrender, or boundary. The sentence is engineered to make extermination sound like the last rational step in a war of survival.

Its subtext is equally strategic. “Free of Jews” borrows the language of cleansing and health, recasting human beings as contamination. That framing performs two functions: it dehumanizes the target and flatters the listener into imagining themselves as protectors of an endangered collective. It also widens the mandate beyond Germany’s borders, implying a global conspiracy that demands a global solution. The world becomes both battlefield and crime scene.

Context matters because Streicher wasn’t a battlefield commander so much as a propagandist who helped make annihilation thinkable. As publisher of Der Sturmer and a notorious public agitator, he specialized in pornography-like obsession with “Jewish” menace, priming ordinary resentments into permission for extraordinary violence. This quote fits the Nazi project of turning politics into metaphysics: Jews aren’t opponents with negotiable interests; they’re cast as the obstacle to history itself.

Calling him simply a “soldier” misses the real instrument here: language. Streicher’s power was to make the unthinkable sound like a victory condition, then dare his audience to see anything less as failure.