Der Stürmer (, "The Attacker") was a weekly tabloid-format Nazi newspaper published by Julius Streicher, the prominent NSDAP official, from 1923 to the end of World War II in 1945, with brief suspensions in publication due to legal difficulties. It was a significant part of the Nazi propaganda machinery and was vehemently anti-Semitic. Unlike the Völkischer Beobachter (translatable as The People's Observer), the official party paper which gave itself an outwardly serious appearance, the tabloid-style Der Stürmer often ran obscene and tasteless materials such as anti-Semitic caricatures and propaganda-like accusations of Blood libel against Jews, sexually explicit, anti-Catholic, anti-communist, anti-capitalist and anti-"reactionary" propaganda too.