Struwwelhitler Die Englische Struwwelpeter-parodie Aus Dem Jahre 1941

by Robert Spence, Philip Spence

Hard to Find book

Genres: Comics, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, World War II, Germany

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1941

About the author

Librarian note:
There is more than one author with this name

Reviews

[Manny · Rating 3 out of 5]

When the children have been good
That is, be it understood,
Good at killing, good at lying,
Good at on each other spying
When their fourteen Pas and Mas
Grandmammas and Grandpapas
Great grandparents too are sure
That their Aryan stock is pure
They shall have the pretty things
Krupp Von Bohlen kindly brings.

(The whole thing is available here. Thank you Matt for telling me about this!)

[Matt · Rating 3 out of 5]

Look who's back!



This is nasty and mean, but not as nasty or mean as I hoped it would be. Those “Nazi Boys” all get their come-uppance all right, but it could have been harder. The illustrations are great though. Almost identical to the original ones from Struwwelpeter with lots of small details – a labor of love.

Thanks to Manny for providing the link to the PDF in his review.


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

[Steffi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wie schon bei Nazi-German in 22 Lessons zündet die Satire hier nicht immer. Hier kommt hinzu, dass die Reime doch immer wieder arg holpern. Dankenswerterweise steht der englische Originaltext stets daneben, sodass man sich davon überzeugen kann, dass es sich dabei nicht um ein Übersetzungsproblem handelt.

Dennoch kann ich nicht verhehlen, dass ich Satire als propagandistische Waffe gegen Faschisten sehr zu schätzen weiß und ich werde die Augen hinsichtlich ähnlicher Publikationen offenhalten.

[Meem Arafat Manab · Rating 4 out of 5]

পড়লাম। সচরাচর এ ধরনের বই পড়া হয় না। এ ধরনের বই মানে কী?
একে ত পদ্য পড়া হয় না, দুইয়ে ইবুক জাতীয় কিছু পড়া হয় না। এটা পড়ে ফেললাম ছোটোখাটো আছে বলে।
প্রোপাগাণ্ডা বই, কেউ কেউ বিদ্বেষপূর্ণ বললে অবাক হবো না। তবে একচল্লিশ সালে কীই বা প্রোপাগাণ্ডার কাতারে পড়ত না!
বেশ মজা করে লিখা, রসবোধ যথেষ্ট ভালো। আলাদা করে কোনোটার কথা বলবো না, এখানে পদ্য আছেই মাত্র গোটাদশেক। নিজের উদ্যোগে পড়ে নিতে পারবেন, বেশিক্ষণ লাগবেও না। তবে যেই জর্মন বইরে পচায়ে এটা লেখা, সেটা পড়ি নাই বলে কতখানি সফলভাবে ওটারে ব্যঙ্গ করা হইছে বলতে পারি না। হেরমান বলুন, গোবেলস বলুন আর ফুএরার বলুন, ধুয়ে দিছে সময় থাকতে থাকতেই।
এত কম সময় লাগে পড়তে যে কোনো ক্লেশ নাই। হাতের নাগালেই আছে, অনলাইনে অজস্র কপি, একটু গুগল গুতালেই হবে।

[Daren · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent artwork in this propaganda parody on the original Struwwelpeter.

Available in pdf here, as other reviewers have provided.

[robinie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just like the original story "Der Struwwelpeter", this was so much fun to read! Considering this was written while the Second World War was still going on (1941), this was surprisingly discerning. The authors totally saw through Hitler & Co. Here is a little excerpt:

Mamma comes homes, here Goebbels stands
And looks quite sad, and shows his hands -
"Ah!" said Mamma, "So, Gobby then
No more can hold his poison pen.
No more will echo roof and rafter
To 'Angriff' nor to 'Beobachter'."

There is a lot of political events hiding in between the lines which I found to be awesome. It's nothing you haven't heard before but it gives a lot of room for discussion and interpretation. I definitely loved this book! I would have loved it even more if the authors had parodied all the nations, not just Germany and Italy. Nevertheless, a great read!

[Astrid · Rating 3 out of 5]

La parodia de Der Struwwelpeter de Hoffmann a hechos y personajes del Eje de la segunda guerra mundial. Mantiene la prosa del original, y su versión traducida, el libro es bilingüe, mantiene la rima. No me he logrado reír, pero aún así me parece que está muy bien logrado.
Se disfruta más si se tiene leída la versión original y conocimiento de los hechos y personajes históricos.

[Adam Barrett · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a really clever parody of Struwwelpeter. Witty, catchy, and humorous, it makes appropriate fun of the Nazi regime at a time when the world really needed it, 1941. I purchased this book at the Dachau concentration camp bookstore so it has an even more "gottcha" factor for me in that.

[Ilse Madelief · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book! I think I would have liked it better if I knew a bit more about the history, so I would have more context haha. Would like the visit the Struwwelpeter museum someday :)

[Marcus · Rating 3 out of 5]

Propaganda from World War II, a satire of the original illustrated Struwwelpeter poetry book.

[Grada (BoekenTrol) · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved this book. The drawings match the stories just like the original. I liked the story of Little Musso Head in Air very much, but the best for me was The Story of the Nazi Boys.

The idea (vivid imagination) of Stalin painting Hitler red... So funny! If you can lay hands on it: I recommend it!

[bxa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sharp good-awful satire - would deserve five stars ... but for the sometimes really too doggerel German translation. Admittedly, translating German rhymes into English ones back into German (and doing so after soaking up and trying to re-emit the cynical political English) is quite a challenge, but still ...

Overall a brilliant read with pointy caricature Struwwelhitler pictures.

[Chris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Brilliant piece of counter-propaganda, with clever rhymes and amusing (and gruesome!) illustrations. I also love that the proceeds went to the war effort. Difficult to imagine a time when the citizens of Western nations banded together for a common and noble cause. In comparison, our generation has only banded together to bomb brown people for spurious reasons.

[Stefan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliante Satire

[Mariela · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was perfect. Clever from the start to the end. Overall, this book is genius!

[Caz · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is absolutely brilliant. Too bad I only found out about it last year. It should honestly be read in schools!