Nazi who originated Donald Trump Jr.’s Skittles metaphor was hanged at Nuremberg

The Intercept’s Naomi LaChange presents the curious origins of Donald Trump Jr.’s tweet comparing Syrian refugees to poison Skittles. “The concept dates back at least to 1938 and a children’s book called Der Giftpilz, or The Toadstool, in which a mother explains to her son that it only takes one Jew to destroy an entire people.”