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When Mickey Mouse was sent to a Nazi concentration camp


In 1942, Horst Rosenthal was sent to the Vichy concentration camp Gurs, where he drew a comic-book that survived him: Mickey au Camp de Gurs, it tells the story of Mickey Mouse being snatched from the street and sent to Gurs, and features a tour of Gurs that uses a brave face of humor to cope with enormous suffering.


Two more of Rosenthal’s comics from Gurs survive; Rosenthal did not. He was sent to Auschwitz and killed on arrival.


Alister Wedderburn, a researcher at the Australian National University’s department of International Relations, has documented Rosenthal’s story in a new paper in Millennium: Journal of International Studies entitled
Cartooning the Camp: Aesthetic Interruption and the Limits of Political Possibility
(Sci-Hub mirror).






(Thanks, Xeni!)

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