August 20, 2007 at 4:58 pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6955249.stm
Fascinating – some wartime German childrens games are up for auction.
“The games include Bombers Over England, a form of bagatelle or primitive pinball where players score points for “bombing ” British cities, shipping or lighthouses. Another, based on Snakes and Ladders, sees players take their U-boats from a German port to the Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow, sink British warships, and try and make it back home. Another is a game where players drop weighted paratroopers onto a representation of the English countryside.
The games also include one possibly made in liberated Belgium in late 1944, where players throw crude darts at a board denoting German cities and representations of the Nazi regime. The bullseye is Adolf Hitler”.
By: JägerMarty - 21st August 2007 at 13:56
Those naughty Germans:D
By: QldSpitty - 21st August 2007 at 09:40
Unsettling…
Ah yes.All the rage at kids birthday parties.Grow up to be the perfect soldier and all that..Funny how anything that comes from Germany in WW2 is automatically nasty Nazi…