Auction 99 Part 2 Rare and Important Items
"The Mongrel" – Illustrated Antisemitic Children's Book – Nuremberg, 1940 – "Animal Fables" from Nazi Germany
Der Pudelmopsdackelpinscher [literally: "The Poodle-Pug-Dachshund-Pinscher"], by Ernst Hiemer. Illustrations by Willi Hofmann. Nuremberg: Der Stürmer-Buchverlag, 1940. German.
A children's book published by the Nazi weekly "Der Stürmer". Eleven antisemitic "animal fables"; each "fable" describes a different allegorical animal – snakes, bacteria, hyenas, bedbugs, worms, locusts – all of which are analogies for Jews (at the end of each story is a short passage describing Jews with characteristics similar to the animal). The book's title – "The Poodle-Pug-Dachshund-Pinscher" – Is taken from a story describing Jews as a mixture of small and weak dogs.
This book is the third and last of the children's books published by "Der Stürmer", and is considered the most extreme of the three. In several places in the book, there are explicit references to the idea of exterminating the Jews: "The tapeworm and the Jew are both parasites for our species... If we want to be strong and healthy again, there is only one solution: extermination [Ausrottung]" (p. 83); "As long as Jews live in the world, there will be a Jewish danger in the world" (p. 91); "We call on all the children of the world!... The end of the Jewish parasite nesting in humans will free the world once and for all...!" (p. 95; this sentence concludes the book).
95, [1] pages. 20.5 cm. Good condition. Some stains. Small tear to margins of last two leaves. Cover stained and slightly worn, with minor abrasions to spine and edges.