Der Pudelmopsdackelpinscher 1940 by Ernst Hiemer Original Book

Offered for sale is a very nice copy of the first edition from 1940 in half cloth, hardcover.

In the opinion of Prof. Mary Mills, it is even “more dangerous than either Don't Trust a Fox in a Green Meadow or the Word of a Jew or The Poisonous Mushroom,” these being the other two Antisemitic children's books published by Stürmer. Realizing that children are basically very interested in the world of nature that surrounds them, Hiemer constructs little stories centered upon what are generally considered to be despicable traits in certain animals and insects and concludes each story by transferring the undesirable characteristics to the human world via the Jews. The Jews are the drones of society because do not work but rather live from the labor of others.

Like the cuckoo, Jews are depicted as stealing other people's homes. They are the foreigners who threaten to displace the Germans from Germany. As hyenas strike disabled animals, Jews are portrayed as preying upon disadvantaged Germans/Christians. Other animals included in these comparisons are the chameleon (the great deceiver), the locust (the scourge of God), the bedbug (the blood sucker), the sparrow (good-for-nothings), the poodle-mops-dachshund-pincher (an inferior race created by cross-breeding various types of races), the poisonous snake (the viper of humanity, and the tapeworm (the parasite of humanity). 

Rare 1st edition !!!

The scarcest of the three Sturmer children books, and an important work in the study of Nazi Antisemitic ideology and imagery. 

Hardcover

• 95 pages
• line drawings by Willi Hofmann

In good exterior and very good interior condition
Boards slightly rubbed and stained, shelfwear along edges, occasionally very faint finger stains at margins, owners inscription on front free endpaper, otherwise ok with minor traces of use and age.
One of the better copies around.

All pages are complete and tight in the binding.

Approx/Measurements: 8-1/4" x 5-3/4"  ~0.45 lbs.