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1940: ‘Superman’ Poisoning American Children, Irate Nazis Claim

BERLIN, April 24 — Das Schwarze Korps, organ of Adolf Hitler’s elite SS guard, today denounced the American comic strip “Superman,” drawn by Jerry Slegel and Joe Shuster,

The paper devoted a full page to reprints of such feats of the “Superman” as his single-handed destruction of Germany’s West Wall, and concluded that the “Superman’s” creator is a Jew.

“In principle, we could overlook the fantasies of Jerry Israel Siegel, but there is a catch,” Das Schwarze Korps sald. “The clever creator of ‘Superman’ is a Colorado beetle who works in dark, incomprehensible ways. He appeals to the ideals of American children under the cry, ‘Strength, courage, justice.’ Instead of taking wise advantage of the opportunity really to further serious virtues, he sows hate, dissension. injustice, laziness and crime in your hearts. Jerry ‘Sealing Wax’ (Siegallack) stinks. It is pitiful that American children who must live in this atmosphere of the west don’t even recognize the poison they daily swallow.”

“Superman” is a feature of The Springfield Daily News. The News thinks it will continue it for a while, anyway, even risking Nazi disapproval.

2025:

… scandalized conservative media, who decried the film as a “super-woke” attempt to insinuate liberal “ideology” with viewers.

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