Jews out! (Game)

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Jews out! is an anti-Jewish board game from the time of National Socialism that was published by Günther & Co. in Dresden at the end of 1938 . The board game was touted as an “extremely cheerful and contemporary parlor game ”. According to Spiegel Online , however, it should be "among the most tasteless things the toy industry produced in the" Third Reich "".

The game is a mixture of non Ludo and Coppit is. Game goal is on a Schedule by cube certain way strutting between a Jewish house within the medieval walls and a meeting place outside on the board stylized city represented six as Jews to bring the declared hats to a collection point in Palestine . Jews were represented on the game board by hat-wearing anti-Jewish caricatures or as hat-wearing wooden figures.

According to Barbara Rogasky, more than a million editions were sold in 1938, although she does not give any sources. In 2018, the historian André Postert from the Hannah Arendt Institute in Dresden found out that the manufacturer had sold 1 million games, but that large discounts had to be granted in 1938 to get rid of the game. In their study, Morris-Friedman and Schädler pointed out that the game was criticized by the National Socialists, for example the SS-Kampf- und Werbeblatt Das Schwarze Korps , and remained a slow seller.

Only two surviving copies of the game are known. In 2004, in the book Territories of the Self by Maja Suderland, the assumption was made that these board games were " thoroughly removed as evidence of widespread anti-Semitism before denazification ".

literature

Andrew Morris-Friedman, Ulrich Schädler: “Jews Out!” - History's most infamous board game , in: Board Game Studies. International Journal for the Study of Board Games 2003/6, pp. 47-58.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Morris-Friedman, Schädler (2003): https://www.academia.edu/2149566/_Juden_Raus_Jews_Out_History_s_most_infamous_board_game , accessed on March 29, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b Nazi toys: When Hitler came into the children's room , spiegel.de, December 17, 2018
  3. ^ FAZ : Thirteen gates lead to paradise , accessed on August 2, 2008.
  4. ↑ http://www.erinnern-gedenken.de/ausstellung1/10index.html , accessed on August 2, 2008.
  5. ↑ Barbara Rogasky: The Holocaust. A book for young readers . Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3-87134-350-6 , p. 41.
  6. ↑ "... so that you collect a lot for the Jews!" , Saechsische.de , December 13, 2018
  7. ^ Morris-Friedman, Schädler (2003)
  8. ↑ Google Books : Maja Suderland: Territories of the Self . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt 2004. p. 57 .