Did Adolf Hitler draw Disney characters?

[snopes]

The director of a Norwegian museum claims to have discovered cartoons drawn by Adolf Hitler during the Second World War.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...whitler123.xml

[Mickey is a gyrl]

Well, if he did, he colored Pinocchio's shirt the wrong color

[Venus]

Even if he did, so what? Evil people can't have hobbies?

[snopes]

Originally Posted by Venus

Even if he did, so what?

What more proof could you possibly need that Walt was a Nazi? Why else would he have allowed a genocidal fascist dictator to reproduce his characters?

- snopes

[Apollonia]

Maybe drawing cartoons is easier than trees?

[boogers]

I think Snopes is on to something about Ol' Walt. I read that Mengele's favorite TV show while he was hiding in Brazil was The Wonderful World of Disney.

[Venus]

How do we know Walt gave an ok? People draw fanart of copywrited characters all the time. If i were to turn evil one day and years later my sketchbook was discovered they'd find drawings of Disney and Warner Brothers characters, doesn't mean Disney or Warner Bros endorsed me in any way.

[Natalie]

Originally Posted by Venus

How do we know Walt gave an ok? People draw fanart of copywrited characters all the time. If i were to turn evil one day and years later my sketchbook was discovered they'd find drawings of Disney and Warner Brothers characters, doesn't mean Disney or Warner Bros endorsed me in any way.

I think those are jokes.

[Brad from Georgia]

From Himmler's diary, April 1943:

I worry that the strain of the war is getting to the Fuhrer. Last night I went to his office to give him a report and found him drawing little cartoons of Walt Disney characters. He screamed, "Vhy von't zey MOVE? Zey move for Disney! Vhy von't zey move for me? I ORDER zem to MOVE!" I had to send Eva Braun in with that dachshund we found that plays the accordion to pacify him.

[Billy Beccles]

William Hakvaag explains it so much better than the Torygraph ever could:

All the owner of the aquarelle knows about the painting – which depicts a typical Bavarian style house nestled in a romantic, rural setting with very high mountain tops all around – is that it has been in her grandparens possession for as long as she can remember.

The woman says she found it stashed away in the addict when she cleaned house after her grandparents. She has no idea how it got there. A private collector from Norway gets the aquarelle for next to nothing. He has no idea that the purchase conceals four hidden secrets.

(There is definitely room, I think, for a programme called Stash In The Addict; it would, of course, have to be presented by somebody called Charlie.)

I am not going to inquire what exactly Mr Hakvaag was looking for with the so-called black light - there's quite enough being said here - but I would be delighted to tell about old Jakob, the father of a Norwegian friend, who was in the clinic getting tested for old age.

While he was there, he overheard a feller in the next cubicle complaining about arthritis or somesuch. Hello, he thought, I know that voice, that's the bastard who sided up with the Germans when they were here, wonder what's wrong with him? Oh woe is me, says the voice in the next cubicle, I can't lift my right arm at all. Ho yus, thinks Jakob, and promptly shouts "You didn't have that problem in 1940, did yer, you drittsek?"

As Myles na cGopaleen would have pointed out, I bet he felt a lot better after that.

[RealityChuck]

Was Pinocchio ever released in Nazi Germany? It came out in 1940, and I can't imagine how it would have been sent to Germany with the war going on. According to the IMDB, the movie first was shown in West Germany in 1951.

So where could Hitler have seen the movie?

[DemonWolf]

Originally Posted by RealityChuck

Was Pinocchio ever released in Nazi Germany? It came out in 1940, and I can't imagine how it would have been sent to Germany with the war going on. According to the IMDB, the movie first was shown in West Germany in 1951.

So where could Hitler have seen the movie?

Bootlegs? The guy had spies everywhere, I'm sure he could find someone to sneak him a copy of the movie.

[Brad from Georgia]

Originally Posted by RealityChuck

Was Pinocchio ever released in Nazi Germany? ...

No, sadly Pinocchio was in a POW camp in Nazi Germany for the entire war. He is rumored to be an end table today.

[Arts Myth]

Originally Posted by Brad from Georgia

No, sadly Pinocchio was in a POW camp in Nazi Germany for the entire war. He is rumored to be an end table today.

I heard he was made into a lamp.

[1958Fury]

Originally Posted by Arts Myth

I heard he was made into a lamp.

Yes, a table lamp. But when he lies, he becomes a floor lamp.

[Cyrano]

Apparently, Hitler was absolutely fascinated with Walt Disney's work, and ordered the german film industry to produce similar animated films.

Here, an interesting link depicting the Third Reich's love story with cartoons:

http://www.cyranos.ch/animat-e.htm

And here, the most famous german cartoon actually finished before war's end - Der Schneemann (about a snowman who desperatley wants to see the summer) - clearly inspired by the "Silly Symphonies".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T39J6RL1kXA

So, given that Hitler was such a fan (and also a decent draughtsman) I wouldn't be surprised if the drawings in the OP were his. But it's really strange to imagine this impersonation of Evil drawing charming cartoon characters.

Because most people think of him as a one-dimensional villain character instead of a multi-faceted person.

Realistically speaking, it would be weirder if he didn't have normal interests and hobbies of some kind to occupy his time,