THE STUERMER IN THE YOUTH HOSTEL
How German boys and girls are being made familiar with the Jewish question.

LETTER FROM "DER STUERMER", No. 16, April 1936, page 8.

Dear "Stuermer",

The children of the "National Socialist Youth Hostel" at Grossmoellen in Pomerania also want to send you their greetings. We read your reports every week with great interest. The "Stuermer" is and will be a welcome guest in our house. With its help we get to know the Jew as he is. We also have a simple "Stuermer" case. We cut out the pictures from the "Stuermer" and fix them to a special notice board in our day room. There the boys and girls can get to know exactly what the Jews look like.

Now we want to tell you of another method, which we use to expose the Jew to all children. Every Sunday night the leader of our hostel presents a play about the Jews with his hand puppet-show. We have a puppet which represents a proper Jew. He has a nose like the Devil. When the Casper comes we call on him to chase away the nasty Jew. But whenever during the game the Jew asks us to help him, we then simply call for Casper.

Today we saw a play on how the devil persuades the. Jew to shoot a conscientious National Socialist. In the course of the play the Jew did it too. We all heard the shot. We would have all liked to jump up and arrest the Jew. But then the policeman came and after a short struggle took the Jew along. You can imagine, dear "Stuermer", that we heartily cheered the police-man. In the whole play not one name was mentioned. But we all knew that this play represented the murder by the Jew Frankfurter. We were very sick when we went to bed that night. None felt like talking to the others. This play made it clear to us how the Jew sets to work.

Now we act regularly in plays about the Jews which the leader of our home reads to us from the "Stuermer". We can hardly wait for the next Saturday to come around again. We greet you, dear "Stuermer" with a loud "Heil Hitler."

The boys and girls of the National Socialist
Youth Hostel, Grossmoellen.

[Note: "By assassinating the Nazi official Wilhelm Gustloff on 4 February 1936, the student, David Frankfurter wanted to avenge the murder of Jews in Germany." (I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1933-41, p. 454)]