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The Toadstool - A striker book for young and old is a program written by Ernst Hiemer anti-Semitic children's book that was published in 1938 by Julius Streicher in Nuremberg publishing Der Stürmer. The 64 -page book contains the lyrics, which are written in the style of Nazi propaganda, also anti-Semitic drawings by Philipp Rupprecht ( under the stage name Fips )

Content

The book is intended to educate children in the spirit of National Socialist propaganda. It begins with an introductory narrative in which a mother tells her son when picking mushrooms from the fact that it " toadstools " give also among the people. The toadstool among the people was the Jew. It is close to 15 chapters, each dealing with an " aspect " of Judaism. Each chapter ends with a short poem in which the content of the chapter is taken together. For example, it describes what one - can recognize a Jew - in the sense of Nazi racial doctrine. It is also alleged about the Jewish religion, that according to the teachings of Judaism, only the Jews were men. The book also includes stories in which Jewish doctors pass on German girls or Jewish lawyers and traders cheat German. Furthermore, the thesis is established, Communism and Judaism hung with each other. The Toadstool concludes with the claims that there could be no " decent Jew " and that there could be no salvation of mankind without the solution of the Jewish question. The last chapter of the book deals primarily with the person of Julius Streicher.

Reception

The children's book was a kind of harbinger of incipient persecution of Jews in the Third Reich. It spread to common prejudices and anti-Semitic resentments, which were based on the then race theory. The book was aimed ostensibly at young readers and gave them tips on how one can recognize a Jew, for example, by its smell, which is described in the book as " disgusting " and " sweet ".

The book had a circulation of 60,000. Occasionally it was used as a textbook. It is now considered a prime example of the anti-Semitic agitation, which is aimed primarily at children and young readers by the party leadership highly praised. Nevertheless, the book was characterized on the basis of his bold and implausible exaggerated anti-Semitism in parts of the SS and the SD is not positive but even as " harmful to minors ".