Discussion on Anti-Semitic Children's Game

Children's game, but it's teaching children to hate.

It's called Jews Out.

And Ben, you brought it along from the Wiener

Library, which is Britain's Holocaust

archive.

It's a horrifying thing, isn't it?

It, it is a very horrifying thing. Uh, and as you say, it's because it's directed

at children, and it's about indoctrinating children

into this view of

Jews as something pestilential and, and unwanted and to be got rid

of. Uh-

And the- these are the... th- these characters are meant to symbolize

the Jews

here, these horrible caricatures-

That's right

... in their homes and their businesses. And the object is, is how does it work?

It's to, to round them up.

It's to round them up. So you roll dice, and these figures, which

represent the sort of German policemen, go marching around the town.

And when they land on the circles where the, the yellow cones are, the

cones actually then sit on top of the hats of the policemen and are brought

back to what's called the collection point or the Sammelplatz, and

then you set out to get another one.

And it's a sort of race to be the first to round up six.

And then when you get six, it's off to Palestine, as it says here.

So notionally, for, for the Jews you've rounded up, they

are sent away to

Palestine.

And this was created when, this game?

This was created in 1938, and it was not produced

by the Nazi Party but was a commercial undertaking, so made for

profit.

Was it popular?

I believe it was very popular. It was a commercial success.

Uh, although now it's a great rarity.

And it's so important not to forget that things like this

existed.

Yes, that's right. Some people nowadays try to deny

that the Holocaust ever

happened, and the whole purpose of our collection

is to make

sure that those suggestions will always fail

because we have the evidence in front of us.