Trust no Fox A child’s introduction to anti-Semitism THIS WAS a piece of anti-semitic history, the foul children’s book produced by the presses of Julius Streicher , who was hanged at Nuremberg in 1946. Eighteen-year old author Elwira Bauer penned this children’s poetry book (“a picture book for large and small”) entitled Trau keinem Fuchs auf grüner Heid und keinem Jüd auf seinem Eid ( Stürmer Verlag, Nuremberg, 1936) — Trust No Fox on his Green Heath and No Jew on his Oath.

For a fine English translation of this book, which was written in the German original in copperplate Gothic handwriting, see the German Propaganda archive of Calvin University . Very few copies of this work have survived. One is offered for sale on the website of Third Reich Auctions . Our vendor is also asking $3,500 for his copy.

Academic institutions studying the origins and propagation of anti-Semitism are expected to snap it up. [ Contact vendor ] More anti-Semitic caricatures: The Boss . . . The doctor . . . Offering Candies