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Board games that children used in Nazi Germany to be sold in U.K.
By The Associated Press
Tags: German, games, Nazi, auction

LONDON - An auction house in England plans to sell board games this week that German children played during World War II, winning points by destroying British cities and ships.

"We had propaganda in Britain during the war, too, but I have never found a comparable British toy that would glorify the idea of bombing German cities such as Dresden or Berlin," said historian and auctioneer Richard Westwood-Brookes.

He said in a telephone interview Monday that the rare Nazi-era board games come from an unidentified collector in Germany who was unable to sell them there because of German law. The games are to be sold on Thursday at Mullock's auctioneers in Ludlow, central England.
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Westwood-Brookes said the auction also would sell other artifacts from the Nazi era, including witness statements from Holocaust victims who were held in Nazi concentration camps.

In one of the 1940s games, battleships could travel to Britain and back, blowing up Allied ships and targets in the North Sea.

In a pinball-style game called Bombers Over England, German children scored 100 points by destroying London or the British submarine base at Scapa Flow, Scotland. Players also could win 100 points for hitting Calais, France, and lower scores for British cities such as Aberdeen (60), Birmingham (50) and Liverpool (40). They lost points by hitting Brussels, Belgium, or Amsterdam and the Netherlands.

Another game involved players having a plane piece and a parachute piece. As the plane passed over the board, the participant dropped the parachutist off, aiming for indents with point values.

Westwood-Brookes said such games are rare finds in Germany these days, in part because children and their families did not look after them.

Also, after the war German children wouldn't have wanted to pretend they were bombing London after their own cities had been smashed apart, he said.

Each game was expected to fetch 100 to 300 pounds ($200-$400).
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  1.   Neat - but over priced 22:37  |  Mark Lincoln 20/08/07
  2.   Comparable costs 23:34  |  Jacob Blues 20/08/07
  3.   I think 23:49  |  Axel 20/08/07
  4.   my bad, left out a word 23:54  |  Jacob Blues 20/08/07
  5.   nazi games 00:10  |  larry from maine 21/08/07
  6.   Nothing unuseal as Nazi Germany had it`s sympatizers in 01:08  |  ILSupporter 21/08/07
  7.   BRITAIN IS buggered.Erroded away from within.Tragic really 01:45  |  PETER SM 21/08/07
  8.   The owner is German 02:18  |  Chris Linthwaite 21/08/07
  9.   IL Supporter - Everyone had some Nazi supporters 02:37  |  Mark Lincoln 21/08/07
  10.   "The owner is German" 02:40  |  Lanzelot vom See 21/08/07
  11.   queen mum.. 02:52  |  lischen müller.. 21/08/07
  12.   to#9 03:36  |  bri 21/08/07
  13.   200 points for liquidating a Jewish Ghetto 04:00  |  Game 21/08/07
  14.   Get over it 06:16  |  Bill 21/08/07
  15.   to Peter SM: Are these games = ANTISEMITISM? 06:39  |  nobodysacred 21/08/07
  16.   NOBODY SACRED.When want to say Antisemitism I will say it. 07:11  |  PETER SM 21/08/07
  17.   No wonder, the land of the BBC and the Guardian, the land of the 07:58  |  Rut Bat-Horin 21/08/07
  18.   An infamous GRATE brittish collector prickFOOL will be bidding 08:54  |  Ari ben Yisrael 21/08/07
  19.   THERE`S ONLY ONE THING I CAN SAY.... 22:01  |  SM 21/08/07
  20.   ok 22:22  |  ok 16/09/08
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