Nazi Picture Book in Sutterlin Script
Trau keinem Fuchs auf grüner Heid und keinem Jud bei seinem Eid! (cover title) / Ein Bilderbuch für Groß und Klein (title page)
Notes: An anti-Semitic children's book published by the Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer with a title translating as Trust No Fox on His Green Heath and No Jew on His Oath!: A Picture Book for Young and Old. Typographically, the book is very interesting as it is printed in two colors of Sütterlin script, a distinctly German handwriting typeface designed by Ludwig Sütterlin and taught in Nazi schools in the late 1930s. It was abandoned along with all black letter typefaces when the Nazis romanized the German alphabet in the 1940s.
This picture book went through at least seven editions totalling some 70,000 copies. The author of the anti-Semitic nursery rhymes and accompanying racist (but otherwise stylistically promising) illustrations was an 18-year-old student who apparently never published another book.
[44] pages, including 21 color illustrations. As a nod to the publisher, two of the illustrations are of Julius Streicher and his Der Stürmer newspaper.
Edition + Condition: Fourth printing (51.–60 tausend). A very good copy in stiff boards with a coarse linen spine and illustrated paper on the front and back cover.
Publication: Nürnberg (Nuremberg): Stürmer Verlag, 1936.
Item No: #362967
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