Editing Julius Streicher (section)

==Early life==
Streicher was born in [[Fleinhausen]], in the [[Kingdom of Bavaria]], one of nine children of the teacher Friedrich Streicher and his wife Anna (née Weiss). He worked as an elementary school teacher, as his father had. In 1913, Streicher married Kunigunde Roth, a baker's daughter, in [[Nuremberg]]. They had two sons, Lothar (born 1915) and Elmar (born 1918).{{sfn|Bytwerk|2001|p=5}}

Streicher joined the [[German Army (German Empire)|German Army]] in 1914. For his outstanding combat performance during the [[World War I|First World War]], he was awarded the [[Iron Cross]] 1st and 2nd Class, as well as earning a battlefield commission as an officer ([[lieutenant]]), despite having several reported instances of poor behaviour in his military record,{{sfn|Snyder|1976|p=336}} and at a time when officers were primarily from aristocratic families. Following the end of World War I, Streicher was demobilised and returned to Nuremberg.{{sfn|Bytwerk|2001|p=6}} Upon his return, Streicher took up another teaching position there but something unknown happened in 1919, which turned him into a "radical anti-Semite".{{sfn|Bytwerk|2001|p=8}}