"War Toys of Germany " Topic
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Tango01 | 09 Apr 2016 11:24 a.m. PST |
"…Germany is using the Christmas season to develop and harden the war spirit among its children. I have been permitted to visit a curious private museum where I have seen many holiday novelties in toys and games brought from Germany through Switzerland. That children in play should desire to emulate their elders is of course natural, but it was not without amazement that I discovered the latest and most popular German toys to be small ruined houses. Last March the Kaiser's armies in retiring from the Noyon salient, pillaged, burned and destroyed all human habitations with a thoroughness probably unparalleled in history. This Christmas the boys and girls of the fatherland in their nurseries may imitate the battlefield exploits of their fathers and older brothers. I examined a whole collection of inexpensive toy ruins made of some plaster composition and ingeniously colored to represent the debris of incendiarism, ranging from the models of shattered cottages to the pretension of smoke-blackened chateau. All these astonishing miniature ruins are French in style and architecture, for naturally the tragedies at which the German children will soon be playing must all be supposed to take place beyond the German frontier. In addition to this novel invention of the Teutonic Christmas spirit are innumerable other playthings having to do with the war. I saw a savings bank labelled "Conscientious Bertha" shaped to imitate the famous 42-centimeter howitzer. ["Big Bertha"] I saw jigsaw puzzles and toy blocks showing battle scenes in all of which the Germans were bravely overwhelming their foes. New-born papier mache babies are represented as executing the military salute and singing "Die Wacht am Rhein" as they burst from colored egg shells. There are toy barbed wire entanglements, toy trenches, toy cannon and of course lead soldiers without number…" See here link Amicalement Armand |
cosmicbank | 09 Apr 2016 11:29 a.m. PST |
Great Link. Man I wish I had some of those terrible War toys from the early 1900's. All I got is Happy Friendly play soldiers and army men. |
14Bore | 10 Apr 2016 5:07 a.m. PST |
A few years ago was doing a job and had there was a antique shops next door. In his window he had the most beautiful figures that I think are the same make as the link. They were German WWI and there must have been 50 at least, a artillery piece, phone layers and equipment, barb wire and much more. I asked and the shop owner said they were German from the 1920's. |
Tango01 | 10 Apr 2016 12:52 p.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed the link my friend!. (smile) Amicalement Armand |
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