Hitler Mouse Banned in Germany

This may be the calmest, most sprightly-toned article ever about a picture being banned from publication, likely because everyone knows swastikas are the iconographic can't-go-there of German publishing so a ban wouldn't be surprising, but I still sort of admire the calm way Tom Scott faces the exclusion of a cartoon featuring a mouse in a Nazi outfit from a new German edition of his 1996 book The Great Brain Robbery. He talks about how the picture came about, how the imagery is recognizable enough that no caption has ever been needed in previous editions in several countries, and how the excision make for a potentially strange double-standard considering the cartoons that survived.

I'm not sure this is an important story or 100 percent relevant to this site's day to day mission, but I'm afraid no one can resist the hypnotic pull of Hitler Mouse.
 
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