Der Stürmer was a weekly Nazi newspaper published by Julius Streicher from 1923 to the end of World War II in 1945. It was a significant part of the Nazi propaganda machinery and was vehemently anti-Semitic. Unlike the Völkischer Beobachter, the official party paper which gave itself an outwardly serious appearance, the tabloid-style Der Stürmer often ran obscene materials such as pornography, mixed with extremely anti-Semitic caricatures and open, undisguised hate propaganda. Most of its readers were young people and people from the lowest strata of German society.

Der Stürmer was most notorious for its anti-Semitic cartoons, most of which portrayed Jews as ugly characters with exaggerated facial features and misshapen bodies. At the bottom of the title page there was always the motto "Die Juden sind unser Unglück!" ("The Jews are our misfortune!").

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• Simon Wiesenthal Center Multimedia Learning Center Online
• Caricatures from Der Stürmer
• Der Stürmer: "A Fierce and Filthy Rag"