Ernst Hiemer created Der Giftpilz ( The poisonous mushroom)is illustrated by Philip Rupprecht. Der Giftpilz was distributed as a book intended for children of a young age as the Nazi party had said on their platforms speeches that children were to learn about "Science of Citizenship" at a young age.This photo has a picture of a rotten mushroom and other mushrooms surrounding the main one that has a big nose the same as the mushroom in the front. Nazi’s classified Jews are portrayed as people with big noses and very ugly and the beard is also a symbolization of Hasidic Jews. There is also a star of David which is the real sign of that person being a Jew. The mushroom is not just a mushroom but is a shape of a man. Hitler thought that gingers were not aloud to be together as their children would be ‘deviant offspring’. The beard of the Jew is ginger so that there would be a bright contrast against the green background.
The expression that the creator of this book is trying to show that even though a Jew looks like a nice person on the outside, they are the ones that caused German's to fall, they were the cause of depression and hyper inflation. Hitler had a main platform which was the most important and which he thought was the way to win and that was the extermination of all Jews and their religion. The expression of the image also includes poisonous mushrooms as Jews there are normal mushrooms and they were described as Germans and they describe them in such a stereotypical way that it would not be hard to miss them. Children would be brain washed into becoming a soldier or supporter of Hitler and would start to hate Jews and others from an early age, the design of the book is short and has cartoons on it so that it makes it a an easy book for children to read. When Hitler fell some children might have noticed what type of antisemitic ideas he was proposing them with. The Nazi party believed that the influence of this book would make Germany a safer and better place. The idea of making a Jew a rotten mushroom is to exemplify the fact that Jews are all over an they spread just like rotten mushrooms.
This image has a lot of misleading information especially the Jews being the cause for the whole fall of Germany. Not all Jewish people have big noses and they don’t all have long beards and they definitely do not look that ugly. The Nazi party made Jews into a rotten mushroom so that they could understand it clearly and influence the hatered of Jews. The message clear as you can see the star of David on the mushrooms chest and Jews are poisonous. This image expresses negative message as this type antisemitic is a bad influence on children and they will grow up hating Jews but when they discover that they did nothing they will not know who to trust.
