Elvira Bauer. Trau Keinem Fuchs auf Grüner Heid; und Keinem Jüd bei seinem Eid! Ein Bilderbuch für Gross und Klein [“Trust No Fox in the Green Grass, nor a Jew at his Oath! A Picture Book for Young and Old.”]

Estimate: $1,500–$2,000
Hammer price: $1,400

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author

(HOLOCAUST)

printer

Stürmer-Verlag

Place

Nürnberg

Publication

1936

Description

Rhyming German Gothic text (Sütterlinschrift) in red and black, with illustrated color plates on facing pages.

summary

This infamous production issued by Gauleiter Julius Streicher is illustrated with notorious imagery designed to inculcate children with extreme anti-Semitic values. The female author, Elvira Bauer, was an 18-year old kindergarten teacher, her book was distributed free of charge by the Stürmer-Verlag to pre-schools throughout Germany.

pp. 44. Original linen-backed color pictorial covers, rubbed at edges. Rectangular 4to.

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