The Poisonous Mushroom: CI & National Socialism

[EzraLB]

Some of you may be familiar with the children's book, "The Poisonous Mushroom," published in National Socialist Germany, I believe, by Julius Streicher. In it, there is a chapter entitled, "What Christ Said About The Jews," and it clearly illustrates an understanding of Two Seedline CI. The teacher points to the cross and tells her students:

“Children, look there! The Man who hangs on the Cross was one of the greatest enemies of the Jews of all time. He knew the Jews in all their corruption and meanness. Once He drove the Jews out with a whip, because they were carrying on their money-dealings in the Church. He called the Jews: killers of men from the beginning. By that He meant that the Jews in all times have been murderers. He said further to the Jews: 'Your father is the Devil!' Do you know, children, what that means? It means that the Jews descend from the Devil. And because they descend from the Devil they can but live like devils. So they commit one crime after another.”

In the title story, "The Poisonous Mushroom," a child learns to separate the wheat from the tares--two mushrooms look alike but one is poisonous. Clearly, there is an allusion here to the Garden of Eden and eating the fruit of the Tree Of Knowledge Of Good And Evil:

“Look, Franz, human beings in this world are like the mushrooms in the forest. There are good mushrooms and there are good people. There are poisonous, bad mushrooms and there are bad people. And we have to be on our guard against bad people just as we have to be on guard against poisonous mushrooms. Do you understand that?”

“Yes, mother,” Franz replies. “I understand that in dealing with bad people trouble may arise, just as when one eats a poisonous mushroom. One may even die!”

A full English translation of the book can be found here:
http://research.calvin.edu/german-propa ... /thumb.htm

[Joe]

I have read some pages of that book but I was unaware of those parts, it is clear the Germans knew what they were dealing with.

I have found a version that you can flip through with the illustrations and text.
https://archive.org/stream/ThePoisonous ... 1/mode/2up

[wmfinck]

Melissa found "The Poisonous Mushroom" on Amazon.com last year. She got a paper copy. There were a few other similar books as well. We were surprised it could be purchased from Amazon. Here it is: http://www.amazon.com/Poisonous-Mushroom-Julius-Streicher-Sturmer/dp/B000FFX124/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8