World War II

DECEITFUL TOYS

azi indoctrination began with the systematic brainwashing of German youth from early childhood—a practice made vivid in a permanent exhibit at Germany’s Bunker Museum of Hagen. “Our visitors are thoroughly shocked about the deceitful toys that are displayed in our exhibit,” called , curator Michaela Beiderbeck told . “Few people today are aware of just how much children were manipulated in the Third Reich.” Following Hitler’s ascent to power in 1933, German toy manufacturers voluntarily produced Nazi-themed items to

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