Pages from "The Poisonous Mushroom"
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With Your Students
Date
1938
Description
The book was designed to teach children that Jewish people were a threat to Germany and could not be part of the Nazis' so-called "national community" ("Volksgemeinschaft"). The book compares German Jews to a poisonous mushroom hidden among other mushrooms that it may resemble, but the poisonous one carries great danger for those who come in contact with it. Der Giftpilz was one of the first and most well known examples of popular children's literature that transmitted Nazi racial ideology.
Type
Written Document
Region
Global
Era
The Great Depression and WW II
Topic
Communication, Education, Jewish History, World War II
Repository
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Identifier
40001
Source
Pages are courtesy of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum Cover is courtesy of the Wiener Holocaust Library
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