Antisemitic Fairy Tales

The Perfect Weapon



Can the Grimm’s Fairy Tales indeed be used as antisemitic weapon? Yes, they can – at least some of them (most not). (But there were others that came handy).

It is known that the Grimm Brothers wrote disrespectfully about the Jews (the following examples taken from the cited book by Oliver Geister).


Double portrait of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. © Stadt Kassel (only for editorial use). http://www.expedition-grimm.de/de/presse/pressefotos.html


Examples:

… alle Judenwörter, wenn wir sie in unserem christlichen Sprachhaushalt brauchen wollen, klingen unedel und schmutzig: sie rühren aus dem gemeinen Umgang  mit dem schachernden, wuchernden, trödelnden, fleischschächenden Volke her.

... all Jewish words, if we want to use them in our Christian linguistic household (vocabulary treasure chest), sound ignoble and dirty: they stem from the common interaction with the haggling, usurious, dawdling, Shechita-practicing people.

Ich bemerke nur, dass die Juden immer mehr überhand nehmen, ganze Tische und Plätze sind damit angefüllt, da sitzen sie mit der ihnen eigenen Unverschämtheit, fressen Eis und legen es auf ihre dicken und wulstigen Lippen, dass einem alle Lust nach Eis vergeht. Getaufte Juden sind auch nicht zu sehen, aber erst in der 5ten oder 6ten Generation  wird der Knoblauch zu Fleisch.

I only notice that the Jews are getting more and more out of hand, whole tables and places are filled with them, there they sit with their own (idiosyncratic) impudence, eat ice cream and put it on their thick, bulgy lips, so that one loses all desire for ice cream. Baptized Jews are also not to be seen, but only in the 5th or 6th generation does garlic turn into meat.

Ich musste ein Huhn essen, das so zäh und hartherzig war wie ein alter Jud

I had to eat a chicken that was as tough and hard-hearted as an old Jew.

Reference: Oliver Geister: Märchen in dunklen Zeiten (2021- Geschichte des Märchens im „Dritten Reich“

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