The book was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by the Katz Family.
The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to the modern era, in Europe, Russia, and the United States. The collection was amassed by Peter Ehrenthal, a Romanian Holocaust survivor, to document the pervasive history of anti-Jewish hatred in Western art, politics and popular culture. It includes crude folk art as well as pieces created by Europe's finest craftsmen, prints and periodical illustrations, posters, paintings, decorative art, and toys and everyday household items decorated with depictions of stereotypical Jewish figures. Phillipp Rupprecht (1900-1975) was born in Nuremberg, Germany. He served in the German Navy during World War I. In 1920, he left Germany for Argentina, where he worked as a waiter and cowboy for several years. In the mid-1920s, he returned to Germany and worked as a cartoonist for the Fränkischen Tagespost, a Socialist newspaper. After drawing a cartoon of the Lord Mayor of Nuremberg, Hermann Luppe, Rupprecht was hired as an illustrator for the antisemitic newspaper Der Stürmer, by Julius Streicher, publisher of the paper and a regional leader of the Nazi party. While there, Rupprecht worked under the pen name Fips and became known for his variations on the antisemitic stereotype of the bearded, bulging eyed, large-nosed Jew. In 1938, he illustrated the antisemitic children's book, Der Giftpilz (The Poison Mushroom), published by the Stürmer publishing house. He joined the German Navy in 1939, but was released to create propaganda for the Nazi party. Rupprecht stayed at the paper until the last issue was published on February 22, 1945, and his career ended with the defeat of Germany in May. After the war, Rupprecht was captured by the United States Army and held in the 7th Army Internee Camp #74 in Ludwigsburg, Germany. He was put on trial as part of the de-Nazification process and sentenced to six years hard labor. Rupprecht was released from Eichstätt prison on October 23, 1950. He married twice, had four children, and worked in Munich as a painter and decorator until his death.
Book; 64 p. (unpaginated) ; colored plates with captions ; Sutterlin script ; 27 cm. [10.625 x 8.250] Notes: Cloth book with a cover cartoon image of mushrooms with mens' faces; the central figure has a Star of David badge. Title page: Der Giftpilz : ein Stürmerbuch für Jung u. Alt von Ernst Hiemer Bilder von Fips Verlag Der Stürmer Nürnberg ; Notes: Alle Rechte Vorbehalten / Copyright 1938 by Verlag"Der Stürme" , Nürnberg / Printed in Germany, Made in Germany ; Offsetbrud er Spamer N a. G in Leipzig ;
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Infamous antisemitic children's book, Der Giftpilz [The Poisonous Mushroom or Toadstool] with illustrations by Fips. It was similar to a previous book, Ein Bilderbuch für Gross und Klein (see record 2016.184.220) by the publisher, Stürmer Verlag, a division of the viciously anti-Jewish newspaper, Der Stürmer, owned by Nazi Party stalwart Julius Streicher. The book explains how Jews are like poisonous mushrooms and should be eradicated. Fips was the pen name of Philip Rupprecht, the paper's well known antisemitic cartoonist. Fips and Streicher were arrested by the US Army in May 1945. Fips was tried by a German denazification court and sentenced to six years hard labor. Streicher was tried by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, convicted, and executed per the ruling that his repeated articles calling for the annihilation of the Jewish race were a direct indictment to murder and a crime against humanity. The book is one of the more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic artifacts and visual materials.
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