Edited sentence: Having said that his crimes were minor compared with his fellows.He was despised by his fellows especially Keitel and Jodl who objected to having to share a dock with him.He was guilty of holding very unpleasant views and of publishing a vile anti-Semitic newspaper with a limited readership.He was there as a substitute for the dead Himmler.Indeed he glorified in his actions and remained utterly unrepentant to the end.Julius Streicher did himself few favours at Nuremburg.Julius Streicher died more for being a vile individual and for being a symbol of the most revolting aspects of the Third Reich than for what he actually did which was trivial when compared with many of those in the dock beside him.Many observers have commented that Streicher (along with Hess) was insane at the time of the trial and should not have been tried for that reason alone.Streicher’s presence at Nuremburg elevated him to a position in death which he certainly did not merit in life.The Nuremburg trials were intended to be for the architects and principal players of the Nazi State.This vile nonentity was thus elevated to the scapegoat par excellence for the crimes of the entire German Nation.Unlike many of his fellow defendants he made no attempt to excuse his conduct or absolve himself from responsibility.Unlike the others he played no part in the excesses of the Third Reich after 1938 and little  attempt was made to demonstate that his publication caused or incited the Holocaust