Though he held no real government post, Nazi publisher Julius Streicher received a death sentence from the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II. A key early member of the Nazi Party, Streicher was convicted on the charge of crimes against humanity for publishing a fanatically anti-Semitic newspaper in Germany for more than two decades. Streicher was born in 1885 near Augsburg, Germany, and in 1909 he became a schoolteacher. He served in the German army during World War I as a lance corporal and then lieutenant and returned to the north Bavarian city of Nuremberg and his career as a teacher afterward. There he founded the German Social Party in 1919, a nationalist, anti-Semitic organization, which he allowed to merge into the National Socialist (Nazi) Party in 1921 after meeting Adolf Hitler. In 1923, he founded Der Stormer ("The Stormer," or "Militant"), a newspaper that viciously attacked German Jews...