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Hello to you all!
<p>Frank wrote:
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<pre>do you really want to tell us there haven't been any
MM newspaper strips in Germany in the 30s? If that's true it is quite
surprising...</pre>
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<p><br>Then be surprised. Beside of the Swiss "Micky Maus Zeitung" there
were no MM newspaper strips in German in the 30s. You may think, that in
the country where once Wilhelm Busch drew "Max und Moritz" (the spirital
ancestors of "The Katzenjammer Kids" and other early U.S. newspaper strips)
there should have been a tradtion in original German strips. But under
the rule of Hitler and Goebbels Nazi Germany had very few comic strips
by German artists. The most famous of those few was E.O. Plauen's "Vater
und Sohn" ("Father and Son").
<p>In their "Comic-Handbuch" (published in West-Germany in 1978,
now out of print) Wolfgang J. Fuchs and Reinhold Reitberger give a hint,
that there was a limited publication of Disney comics in the so called
Third Reich. They write (p. 24/25), that in some Austrian comic books (giveaways),
which were especially published by some stores and shops for the children
of their customers, sometimes one could find Disney comic strips. Unfortunately
Fuchs/Reitberger don't tell details about the kind of Disney strips that
were printed in titles like "Kiebitz", "Schmetterling", "Papagei" and "Teddy
Bär". These Austrian giveaways were also wide-spread in Germany until
the publishing came to an end in 1941 because of shortness of printing
paper during the war. Maybe someone else of the DCML can tell us more about
these things.
<p>Greetings
<br>Erik</html>