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Streicher, let me give you some advice. I work in a Jewish bank. I have learned to be silent at times when my German heart gladly would have spoke. The Jews are few in number but great in the economic and political power they have achieved, and their power is dangerous. You, my dear Streicher, are still young and cocky, and don't mince words. But never forget what I am telling you: the Jews have great power, and that power is dangerous, very dangerous.

Julius Streicher#26

PoliticsEconomicsStereotype

About this quote

What does it mean?
A colleague warns Streicher that Jews, though few, wield dangerous economic and political power, urging caution.
In plain terms
He tells Streicher that Jewish power is dangerous and to be careful.
What can you take from it?
Beware of attributing monolithic power to any group.

Where it applies

  • political meetings
  • propaganda sessions

Putting it to work

  • warning
  • censorship

Questions to consider

  • What are the consequences of portraying a minority as a threat?
  • How can such narratives be countered?

Another view

The statement perpetuates harmful stereotypes about Jewish influence.

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  2. A Gauleiter of Franconia whose occupation was to pour forth filthy writings about the Jews, but who had no idea that anybody would read them.

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  3. I also never read a work of Streicher or of that stupid journal Der Sturmer. I saw only one page of it and that sufficed. That paper was forbidden in my house.…

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