(Anti-Semitic Children's Book) BRAUER, Elvira. Trau Keinem Fuchs auf Gruner Heid und Keinem Jud auf Seinem Eid!: Ein Bilderbuch fur Gross und Klein [Trust No Fox on His Green Heath and No Jew on His Oath!: A Picture Book for Large and Small]. Nurnberg: Sturmer-Verlag, (1936). FIRST EDITION, Second printing, denoting the 26–40 thousand statement of the print run on the limitation parameters. Oblong 8vo (7-7/8" x 9-3/4"). Plain endpapers. [44] pp. Illustrated with 21 full-page color plates reproducing antisemitic caricatures by prominent Third Reich cartoonist Philipp Rupprecht ("Fips"). Bound in the original publisher's tan cloth-backed, color pictorial paper-covered boards with all edges tinted red.
The physical condition of the item is graded VERY GOOD + (utilizing the standard antiquarian book grading scale for works on paper). The color pictorial boards show routine rubbing to the extreme edges and corners, with some expected discoloration and handling soil to the tan cloth spine and fore edge. Internally, the text block and full-page color plates remain bright, crisp, and clean, presenting in fine structural condition.
Julius Streicher's Sturmer-Verlag and the Indoctrination of Youth
This work represents the first of three notorious children's books published by Julius Streicher's infamous Sturmer Publishing House. Written by Elvira Bauer, an 18-year-old kindergarten teacher, and paired with the vivid, aggressive caricatures of Philipp Rupprecht, the book was explicitly designed as an ideological primer for German school-children. Melding standard nursery rhyme cadences with extreme political indoctrination, each page pairs a nursery-style poem with a full-page color illustration contrasting idealized, robust Aryan figures against exaggerated, hostile caricatures of Jewish citizens. These productions represent some of the most aggressive psychological efforts of the Third Reich, weaponizing the traditional German bilderbuch (picture book) format to codify state-sponsored racial theories within early childhood education and primary school curricula.
Ephemeral Propaganda Distribution and Institutional Censorship
While widely distributed during the late 1930s as standard instructional primers across Germany, copies of Bauer's work suffered an exceedingly low survival rate following the Allied occupation and the subsequent de-Nazification programs of the post-war era, during which the vast majority of Sturmer imprints were systematically destroyed or heavily restricted with surviving examples frequently found heavily damaged, defaced, or historical altered by previous owners to obscure the volume's original context.
THIS CONTROVERSIALLY SIGNIFICANT AND SCARCE PIECE OF THIRD REICH PROPAGANDA REMARKABLY PRESERVES ALL TWENTY-ONE FULL-PAGE COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS BY PHILIPP RUPPRECHT IN AN UNMUTILATED, VERY GOOD + STATE, REPRESENTING A CRITICAL ACQUISITION FOR INSTITUTIONAL SPECIAL COLLECTIONS OR EXTRAORDINARY PRIVATE COLLECTIONS DEVOTED TO THE HISTORY OF NAZI PROPAGANDA, ANTI-SEMITISM, TWENTIETH-CENTURY GERMAN HISTORY, OR THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.
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