Front page of the Nazi publication, Der Stuermer, with a reprint of a medieval depiction of a ritual murder.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 37858

Overview

Caption: Front page of the Nazi publication, Der Stuermer, with a reprint of a medieval depiction of a ritual murder.

The headline reads, "Ritual Murder/The biggest secret of world Jewry."

The caption reads, "In 1476 the Jews of Regensburg murdered six boys. They extracted their blood and put them to death as martyrs. The judges found the bodies of the deceased in a subterranean space, which belonged to the Jew Josfal. On an altar there stood a stone plate flecked with blood."
Date: May 1939
Locale: Nuremberg, [Bavaria] Germany
Variant Locale: Nurnberg
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Virginius Dabney

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Virginius Dabney

Source Record ID: Collections: 1990.29.33
Published Source: Der Stuermer: Deutsches Wochenblatt zum Kampfe und die Wahrheit - Julius Streicher - May 1939

Keyword: CARTOONS/CARICATURES CARTOONS/CARICATURES (ANTI-JEWISH) NEWSPAPERS PROPAGANDA PROPAGANDA (ANTI-JEWISH) PUBLICATIONS PUBLICATIONS (NAZI) RITUAL MURDER STUERMER, DER
Photo Designation: ANTISEMITISM - GERMANY 1933-45 -- Propaganda -- Der Stuermer