Herge was a Nazi
 

Is this true?

I was informed of this tonight, I love the Tintin books, and when I was growing up always thought that Captain Haddock would make a cracking Uncle, however a BBS'er has since told me that in fact he was a baaaddd man.

I was happy in my ignorance, I loved Tintin In America , but now it feels somewhat tainted for me.

Mind you this was the same BBS'er who told me a rumour about the the band Queen and some midgets which I am still not sure about.

Help

Dissapointed Of Canvey Island, Essex.

The SS recruited in Belgium however, I'd be suprised.

Probably just kept his head down.

The occupation of Brussels ended on September 3, 1944. Tintin's adventures were interrupted toward the end of The Seven Crystal Balls when the Allied authorities shut down Le Soir. During the chaotic post-occupation period, Hergé was arrested four times by different groups. He was publicly accused of being a Nazi/Rexist sympathizer, a claim which was largely unfounded, as the Tintin adventures published during the war were scrupulously free of politics (the only dubious point occurring in The Shooting Star, which showed a rival scientific expedition flying the Flag of the United States). In fact, the stories published before the war had been unequivocally critical of fascism; most prominently, King Ottokar's Sceptre showed Tintin working to defeat a thinly-veiled allegory of the Anschluss, Nazi Germany's takeover of Austria. Nevertheless, like other former employees of the Nazi-controlled press, Hergé found himself barred from newspaper work. He spent the next two years working with Jacobs, as well as a new assistant, Alice Devos, adapting many of the early Tintin adventures into colour.

Tintin's exile ended on September 6, 1946. The publisher and wartime resistance fighter Raymond Leblanc provided the financial support and anti-Nazi credentials to launch Tintin magazine with Hergé. The weekly publication featured two pages of Tintin's adventures, beginning with the remainder of The Seven Crystal Balls, as well as other comic strips and assorted articles. It became highly successful, with circulation surpassing 100,000 every week.

Tintin had always been credited as simply "by Hergé", without mention of Edgar Pierre Jacobs and Hergé's other assistants. As Jacobs' contribution to the production of the strip increased, he began demanding a joint credit. Hergé refused and ended their hitherto fruitful collaboration. Jacobs then went on to produce his own comics for Tintin magazine, including the widely-acclaimed Blake and Mortimer.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herg%C3%A9

Told you.

:sob: :sob: :sob:

Herge was a racist, allegedly.

'Tintin in the Congo' (or similar) was a bit dodgy.

But then again, the world was a different place then.

Indeed. It was Mars.

:D

Saw a very interesting docu on him last night and he wasn't a nazi, but was jailed for incorrectly being seen as a nazi sympathiser, a couple of his books actually had anti Nazi Germany messages in them.

I enjoyed it anyway.

Check out Tintin redubbed on youtube.

Usual spiteful crap from some handwringer that could never get the books from the library and wasnt allowed to watch Kids TV in the Summer Holidays ;)

So was walt disney

Fred Quimby no doubt swung to the right with his obsessive portrail of Black Female Servants :rolleyes:













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If you enjoyed the books when you were young and didn't feel a need to pull on a black shirt, persecute Jews, gays etc and organise your friends into listening to you rant and rave at huge rallies after reading them, who gives a flying •••• what his politics were?

"Tintin et moi" - excellent documentary - have it on dvd.

(He wasn't jailed as such - rounded up on 4 separate occasions.)

Fat and untidy bloke was he?

Told him what?

That article said that he wasn't a Nazi, and wrote books with an anti-fascist message.

Can a mod change the title please.........'wasn't' in place of was

thanks.

Chat with my Dad over Xmas included trying to remember the stories about T S Eliot and other literary giants having alleged facist sympathies. Plus someone like Ezra Pound? But we couldn't remember who.

and Carl Jung.

Some bloke called Hitler was a bit of a sympathiser apparently.