"Just as it is often very difficult to tell the poisonous from the edible mushrooms, it is often very difficult to recognize Jews as thieves and criminals…"
A mother and her young boy are gathering mushrooms in the German forest. The boy
finds some poisonous ones. The mother explains that there are good mushrooms and
poisonous ones, and, as they go home, says:
"Look, Franz, human beings in this world are like the mushrooms in the forest. There
are good mushrooms and there are good people. There are poisonous, bad mushrooms
and there are bad people. And we have to be on our guard against bad people just as we
have to be on guard against poisonous mushrooms. Do you understand that?"
Yes, mother," Franz replies. "I understand that in dealing with bad people trouble may
arise, just as when one eats a poisonous mushroom. One may even die!"
"And do you know, too, who these bad men are, these poisonous mushrooms of
mankind?" the mother continued.
Franz slaps his chest in pride:
"Of course I know, mother! They are the Jews! Our teacher has often told us about them."
The mother praises her boy for his intelligence, and goes on to explain the different
kinds of "poisonous" Jews: the Jewish pedlar, the Jewish cattle-dealer, the Kosher
butcher, the Jewish doctor, the baptised Jew, and so on.
"However they disguise themselves, or however friendly they try to be, affirming a
thousand times their good intentions to us, one must not believe them. Jews they are and
Jews they remain. For our Volk they are poison."
"Like the poisonous mushroom!" says Franz.
"Yes, my child! Just as a single poisonous mushrooms can kill a whole family, so a
solitary Jew can destroy a whole village, a whole city, even an entire Volk."
Franz has understood.
"Tell me, mother, do all non-Jews know that the Jew is as dangerous as a poisonous
mushroom?"
Mother shakes her head.
"Unfortunately not, my child. There are millions of non-Jews who do not yet know the
Jews. So we have to enlighten people and warn them against the Jews. Our young
people, too, must be warned. Our boys and girls must learn to know the Jew. They must
learn that the Jew is the most dangerous poison-mushroom in existence. Just as
poisonous mushrooms spring up everywhere, so the Jew is found in every country in the
world. Just as poisonous mushrooms often lead to the most dreadful calamity, so the
Jew is the cause of misery and distress, illness and death."
German youth must learn to recognise the Jewish poison-mushroom. They must learn
what a danger the Jew is for the German Volk and for the whole world. They must learn
that the Jewish problem involves the destiny of us all.
"The following tales tell the truth about the Jewish poison-mushroom. They show the
many shapes the Jew assumes. They show the depravity and baseness of the Jewish race.
They show the Jew for what he really is:
The devil in human form!