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Idk, I think the story is about blood relations being more important. During a famine, the father doesn't want to send his biological kids away (to starve) but their stepmom does. Then the stepmom decides to try to cook and eat them, but she's tossed into the oven instead. Miraculously they find their father again and they all survive the famine. Non fictional stories like this show up in famines all the time, from the Holodomor to the Chinese great leap forward. Germany itself had gone through several, including a massive depopulation from the 30 years war. This makes the most sense to me.
And you'd be wrong. jews are REGULARLY called out through history in writings of even fictional nature.
They are, I know that, but you have to understand the historical reality of famines and the hard choices they brought. Look at the story again. The starving kids literally see a house make of food.
Really, why bury the jew-naming in allegory (or in some picture that may have had little to do with the original story, at a time when the star of David was not always synonymous with jews) when they have explicit references to their untrustworthiness in folk tales?
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