The New Adventures of Hitler
The New Adventures of Hitler was the title of a satirical comic series that appeared in 1989 in the Scottish art and culture magazine "Cut" and was reprinted in 1990 in the magazine "Crisis" (issues 45-49) by the IPC. The artistic makers of the series were the author Grant Morrison and the draftsman Steve Yeowell. The comic was controversial almost from the start. Public controversy arose in Great Britain at the latest after the tabloid daily newspaper The Sun had published a report on “The Adventures of Hitler” . Morrison became suspect because of his humorous use of the character Adolf Hitler's Nazi sentiments. The publicized threat from editor Pat Kane to quit the magazine if Morrison did not abandon his original plans for the plot caused further negative sensation. A planned re-publication as an anthology has not yet materialized.
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"The New Adventures of Hitler" tells of the - fictitious - "youth adventures of Adolf Hitler" in Great Britain. The premise of the action is a legend popular in Great Britain, which says that in the last few years before the outbreak of the First World War, Hitler temporarily lived with his half-brother Alois Hitler and his family - consisting of his wife and son - in the English port city of Liverpool .
This - historically inaccurate - claim, made in 1939 by Hitler's sister-in-law Bridget Dowling , is unceremoniously accepted as true in "The New Adventures of Hitler" and used as an excuse to tell a number of bizarre stories that deal with deal with the, usually very macabre, entanglements arising from Hitler's activities in Liverpool. The starting point for most of the stories is the young Hitler's attempts to realize any eccentric plans or strange views that come to mind - which usually has the most chaotic consequences possible. Often his ideas and actions represent nothing more than distorted anticipations of the later political goals and actions of real Hitler as a German dictator.
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- ↑ Brigitte Hamann: Hitler's Vienna , p. 282. According to Dowling, Hitler - at that time a shabby young man ("a shabby young man") lived in Great Britain from November 1912 to April 1913.