Althouse: "Hansi, the Girl Who Loved the Swastika" is only #9 on the list of "10 Most Ridiculous Comic Book Nazis."

November 3, 2014

"Hansi, the Girl Who Loved the Swastika" is only #9 on the list of "10 Most Ridiculous Comic Book Nazis."

What was I looking for when I found that?

You might guess that I'm going back to Saturday's topic: "Mary Burke's use of the swastika in her ad does the very thing defenders of the ad will say she's accusing her antagonist of doing."

But you would be wrong.

I just did a Google image search for "airplane as a cartoon villain" to try to find a funny picture for the Air-Force-One-as-Metaphor post. If you search only for "airplane as a cartoon character," you get a lot of smiley, nice airplanes. I guess people don't want kids to get the idea that planes are scary.

13 comments:

tim maguire said...: The people of Dresden probably think airplanes are scary.; 11/3/14, 8:59 AM
DanTheMan said...: In the Little Einsteins show, there is an evil airplane, Big Jet.
It's a Russian MiG. I guess that slipped past the PC police at Disney.; 11/3/14, 9:15 AM
n.n said...: Fluki, the Girl who loved the Hammer and Sickle, doesn't even make the top 10, despite exceeding the popularity of all the Nazi girls combined. It must be ideological discrimination.; 11/3/14, 9:34 AM
tom swift said...: "Hansi" is actually mildly interesting ... at least compared to the usual run of comics.; 11/3/14, 9:34 AM
Anonymous said...: "She's a Nazi who's 100% for the Third Reich, until the war ends and she finds herself in the USA, where she gets married and becomes a born-again Christian and Scott Walker's mother!; 11/3/14, 9:35 AM
Wince said...: Would the Japanese be homophobic for finding the Enola Gay scary?; 11/3/14, 9:37 AM
Anonymous said...: "Rudolph, the Autistic Savant Nazi Who Counted the Dead"

Kommander Schmidt: "Hans,what are the latest numbers of dead at Camp Be--"

Rudolph: Fourteen dead! Fourteen dead!

Hans: Uh... Yes, fourteen Guards died from an outbreak of dysentery...

Rudolph: Fourteen dead! Fourteen dead!

Kommander Schmidt: "And how are we doing on the Russian front?"

Hans: Well sir, we lost three tanks and part of a b--"

Rudolph: "Forty-seven dead! Forty-seven dead!"

Kommander Schmidt: "Is that correct, Hans?"

Hans: "Sir, I'm afraid it is..."

Rudolph: "Forty-seven dead! Forty-seven dead!"

Kommander Schmidt: "And what is this I hear of violence in Paris...?

Rudolph: "Nine dead! Nine dead!"

Kommander Schmidt: "The resistance killed NINE of our men?"

Hans: "Actually sir, we had a soldier go berserk at a Paris brothel and kill nine French whores..."

Rudolph: "Nine dead French whores! Nine dead French Whores!"

Kommander Schmidt: "So, all told, how many people did we lose yesterday?

Rudolph: "One-hundred-and-four dead! One-hundred-and-four dead!"

Kommander Schmidt: "Hans, is this true?"

Hans: "Yes, sir, it was that number, exactly."

Kommander Schmidt: "Does this count the French whores?"

Hans: "Rudolph?"

Rudolph: "It doesn't count the French whores! If you count the French whores there are one-hundred-and-thirteen dead! One-hundred-and-thirteen dead if you count the French Whores!

Kommander Schmidt: "Thank you for your precision, Rudolph, the Third Reich values it highly. In fact, you are being promoted to a... delicate position..."

Next Issue: "Rudolph, the Autistic Savant Nazi Who Counted the Dead Goes to Auschwitz!"; 11/3/14, 9:38 AM
traditionalguy said...: I never learned if Hansi enjoyed her meeting with the Russian Army. That must be shown in the Charles Atlas ad on the back.; 11/3/14, 9:46 AM
Coconuss Network said...: Freaky for girls named Hansi, like girls named Isis.; 11/3/14, 9:59 AM
n.n said...: EDH:

The Enola Gay was perceived as a pleasant surprise. Little did they know of the semantic change that awaited them.; 11/3/14, 10:13 AM
Michelle Dulak Thomson said...: Yes, yes, the Enola Gay. Newly reborn as the Ebola Gay...

Re: Airplanes as cartoon villains: Surely there were some aircraft Transformers among the Decepticons? Um, Starscream? I think.; 11/3/14, 10:36 AM
Tari said...: I remember this cartoon from the Christian bookstore when I was a child. In middle school I read the real book, by Maria Hirschmann, who was the "Hansi" of the story. I wouldn't recommend it as "well-written" but it was a good story nonetheless.

http://www.amazon.com/Hansi-The-Girl-Loved-Swastika/dp/0842312900; 11/3/14, 12:19 PM
jaed said...: On the topic of scary airplanes, have we forgotten the "Air Force One Buzzes Manhattan" incident?; 11/3/14, 12:36 PM