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Auschwitz Museum again calls out Amazon and Jeff Bezos for selling ‘Nazi propaganda’

The museum pointed specifically to anti-Semitic Nazi-era children’s books available on the mega retailer’s site.

By Marcy Oster February 24, 2020 11:23 am

This Jewish Woman Should Have Been a Nazi Germany Gold Medalist

In 1936, Germany barred its own high jump champion from participating in the Olympics – even though she was on track to win gold. At a championship meet one month before the Olympics, a Jewish girl named Gretel Bergmann leapt 5 feet 3 inches, and placed first at a meet of German high jumpers. Shortly […]

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This 1936 Illustrated German Children’s Book Makes Anti-Semitism Look So Cute

How did Adolf Hitler’s anti-Semitic ideas transform from the ravings of an outsider to official policy? A recent exhibit at the New-York Historical Society,“Anti-Semitism 1919-1939,” asked this question, and a 1936 children’s book supposedly about a fox ventures an answer. Trust No Fox was one of three children’s books published by the Nazi weekly Der Stuermer in […]

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