Trust No Fox on his Green Heath and No Jew on his Oath
ein Bilderbuch für Gross und Klein) is an antisemitic children's picture book published in November 1936 in Nazi Germany.
[1][2][3][4] The book was written and illustrated by Elvira Bauer [de] (1915 – after 1943), a kindergarten teacher, art student, and Nazi supporter.
[5] It was the first of three children's books to be published by Julius Streicher, the editor of the infamously antisemitic newspaper Der Stürmer,[6] 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."
[12] The Nazi Party believed that they, by using propaganda, could unite the German people as a nation supporting their beliefs.
The number of boycotts of Jewish business, throughout the 1930s, showed the antisemitic tendency within the German population.
[14] Historian Richard Grunberger argued that many in Germany wanted to see social change, and the idea of "folk community" was popular at the time.
[15][16] After enacting the "editorial law" (Schriftleitergesetz) and other antisemitic publishing legislation, all forms of publication were censored by the Reich Chamber of Culture (Reichskulturkammer), and non-"Aryans" were forbidden from working as journalists, strengthening antisemitism among Gentiles in Germany.
But since it unfortunately exists, and is in the hands of the German children, we should use it, too, as the strongest imaginable method of propaganda against the Reich of Hitler and Streicher.
")[24] refers to a rhymed antisemitic folk wisdom attributed to Martin Luther: "Trau keinem Wolf auf wilder Heiden / Auch keinem Juden auf seine Eiden / Glaub keinem Papst auf sein Gewissen / Wirst sonst von allen Drein beschissen"[3] ("Trust no wolf in wild heathland / Also no Jew on his oath / Believe no Pope on his conscience / Otherwise, you will be screwed by all three").
The German, who has blond hair, is standing tall with a spade in his hand and a muscular body.
The illustration on this page depicts a man with scruffy hair, a big nose and a dark coat;[31] he is surrounded by flames which links him to the Devil in the previous section.
In this section, Bauer told a story of a Jew who converts to being a Christian, but on a Friday he eats a goose.
The illustration is a colorful picture of a farmyard and the Jew taking animals from a German.
One of the pictures also shows the Jew with a fox, a common link used by the Nazi propaganda to represent them as sly and stealthy.
The story taught Gentile children that a Jew will take all their money and produce and leave them with nothing.
Bauer believed that a Jew will always go to Hell when they die, and the Jewish doctor is trying to stop that.
The colorful illustrations include depictions of Jews in a huddle next to crows, apparently plotting, while Der Stürmer is on the wall behind them.
The final part of this section idealized the removal of Jews in German society, creating a perfect "Fatherland."
By linking the fox with a Jew, it reinforced the idea that Judaism is a disease, like rabies.
