Is The Theme Of Trust No Fox On His Oath By Elwira Bahler

As children, we are read stories that are designed to instill in our morals. We are trained to root for the hero and despise the villain. For instance, while we are young we are also vulnerable to believe in characteristics about the world around us and the people in it. This is no different in Nazi Germany. In the children’s book Trust No Fox on His Green Heath and No Jew on His Oath , Elwira Bauer invites her youthful audience through a series of stories to inspire them to align with the Nazi’s cause and racial theory. Bauer suggests racial theory by using caricatures of Jews to support her antisemitic narrative. Initially, her book explains the history of the Jewish people to justify their treatment in Nazi Germany

In the passage, “Once a Jew always a Jew”, Jews are characterized as irredeemable and therefore cannot be Christians. Even when Jews are baptized or become Christians they are inevitably being deceitful. In Trust No Fox on His Green Heath or No Jew on His Oath, a Jew becomes a Christian and eats meat on a Friday even though he knows it is wrong. The author accuses Jews of breaking Christian rules to convey that Jews are sinful and should be separate from Christian Germans. Religion is a very divisive tactic used to separate the “Jew” from the Christian German. In addition, Nazi Party’s Central Propaganda Office, the Reichspropagandaleitung had a monthly bulletin for speakers which stated that conversion will have no modification on the Jew’s inner nature. This is a part of the Nazi’s racial theory that believes the Jew’s nature is determined by genetics and “nature’s racial laws”. The speech implies that religion and race are interconnected. The Reichspropagandaleitung applied the link between religion and race to evoke that Jews cannot be unified with Germans in

The book describes the strong German male as the hero and the book unveils that the child can be a part of the hero’s noble cause against evil. We should feel distressed for the unfortunate German woman, Rosy that must clean for Jews and be appalled at the German woman that is married to “the Jew”. The Jewish man in the images looks like a villain or someone who would have ill intent. The book even includes accounts of the “Jew” ripping people off, selling contaminated meat and refusing to give food to a starving person that happens to be a faithful customer. The Jews are created in this story as the enemy and the German is the only force that can remove their threat to society. Bauer exposes the Jews association with the devil to portray all Jews as a source of complete evil. She even mentions that Satan himself deliberately placed the Jews in Germany. This presents the Jews intruders of Germany and allows for the Germans to treat them terribly. Specifically, with the Jews being outsiders the German people can rationalize them as genetically different and excuse the Jews ill-treatment in the 1935 Nuremberg Laws . These laws stemmed from the findings of “racial scientists” . Because of these laws, the Jews were classified as inferior and separate to the Aryan race and hence secluded from German