Evening star., 1946-01-10
Goering Probe Found
Streicher Was Sadist
And Thief, Court Told
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NUREMBERG, Jan. 10.-Her-
mann Goering's own secret inves-
tigation of Julius Streicher in 1889
showed the notorious Nazi Jew
batter as a sadist and thief, ac-
cording to a document introduced
before the International Military
Tribunal today.
Both men listened intently from
opposite sides Of the dock in the
war crimes trials of % leading
Nazis. They did not glance at each
other.
Earlier the judges of the United
States, Russia, Great Britain and
France heard in the words of an
other defendant, Hans Frank, how
the Nazis hoped to make the Poles
Slaves Of the greater German en-
pire."
Likes to Whip People.
Goerings investigation, made
while he was still the second most
powerful man in Germany, said:
"Gauleiter Streicher likes to beat
people with q riding whip, but only
If he is in company with several
persons assisting him. Usually the
beatings are carried out with sadistic
brutality"
Streicher, through his attorney
protested vehemently against admis-
sion Of the report as evidence, but
was overruled.
Shortly after Goering made the
report in 1899, Streicher was re-
moved as gauleiter for Franconia
He retained his place as the prin-
cipal anti-Semitic among the Nazis
as editor OF Der Stuermer
The report said that under
Streicher's Aryanization program
Jews in the region we're forced to
sell their property at 10 per cent
Of its value. Goering's investigating
commission charged that Streicher
himself obtained control of a big
Jewish owned publishing house
through a forced sale"
Reads From Franks Diary.
Frank, who attempted to take his
own life at the time of his arrest,
sat stif11y in the prisoners box as
Assistant American Prosecutor 1t.
Col. william H. Baldwin, Detroit.
Mich, read from his diary a list Of
brutalities reminiscent of the Dark
Ages.
"Once we have won the war;"
read an entry in Franks diary on
January IA, 1914, then, for all I
care mincenleat can be made Of
the Poles"
Over and over again, Frank called
on his aides to be brutal and ruth
less In carrying out Hitler's program
for Poland-a program that speci-
fed low standard of living, elm
ination of the power Of the Roman
Catholic church and ban prevent
ing the intelligentsia from forming
into a ruling class.
Gibraltar Attack Planned.
Meanwhile, as the prosecution
to present its case against
the % Nazi leaders, to show their
responsibility, it appeared
unlikely that the American and
British attorneys would finish by
the end Of the week. s
In yesterdays session the court
was informed that Nazi Foreign
Minister Joachim Won Ribbentrop
told Mussolini during q 1870 con-
ference that Spain was preparing
to attack Gibraltar and that the
attack was to be Generalissimo
Francisco Franco's declaration Of
war on the Allies.
Notes from the conference were
introduced by the British prosecu-
ton. Concentrating its fire on the
former German foreign minister, the
British prosecution offered In evil
dence 4 document which showed Won
Ribbentrop told the Italian leader
Hitler was convinced conquest Of
Gibraltar was absolutely possible,
but only If the spaniards were to be
given assistance"