Games

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Jagd auf Kohlenklau (1944)

("Hunting for the Coal Thief")

• The game had been produced during WWII as part of a Nazi propaganda campaign by Lepthian-Schiffers.
• Its main purpose was to promote energy conservation because of the war effort.
• Because of the war, things like paper became scarce. The game would encourage people to "fight the coal thief."

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Candy Land (1949)

• The game had been created by Eleanor Abbott in 1945 during the polio epidemic that swept through the U.S.
• Abbott, who herself had polio, believed that the game would make it easier on the kids who were recovering from the disease. She believed it would cheer them up.
• The game would later be picked up by Milton Bradley Company (which is now owned by Hasbro)

and would be published 1949.