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Holocaust Auction June 2023
Lot 350:
Infamous Anti-Semitic Book "Trust No Fox on his Green Heath and No Jew on his Oath". Original book, not a copy! Condition is excellent, almost unused! Trust No Fox on his Green Heath and No Jew on his Oath! A Picture Book for Old and Young (Original title in German: Trau keinem Fuchs auf grüner Heid und keinem Jud auf seinem Eid! ein Bilderbuch für Gross und Klein) is an antisemitic children’s picture book published in November 1936 in Nazi Germany. The book was written and illustrated by Elvira Bauer [de] (1915 – after 1943), a kindergarten teacher, art student, and Nazi supporter. It was the first of three children’s books to be published by Julius Streicher, the editor of the infamously antisemitic newspaper Der Stürmer, who was later executed for war crimes.Through stereotypical Nazi caricatures, primitive nursery rhymes and colorful illustrations, children—and adults—are told what a Jew supposedly is and looks like according to the Nazi Party; the Jews are represented as "children of the devil, " evil creatures who cannot be trusted, and a contrast to idealized "Aryans." Works of Nazi propaganda such as this were used to indoctrinate the youth of Germany in Nazi racial ideology.Trust No Fox on his Green Heath went through seven editions, and at least 70,000 copies were printed.[5] After Bauer moved to Berlin in 1943 and reported to an art school under the Reich Chamber of Culture and Fine Arts (Reichskammer der bildenden Künste) there are no known records of her later life or activities. **** IMPORTANT **** Shipping from our office in Europe.
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