A Not-So-Fun Fact:
Did you know that 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of the original Bambi, by Austrian writer Felix Salten?
Many of us know Bambi in its 1942 Disney movie version — the young deer who tragically loses his mother to a hunter but gets by with the help of his forest friends, among them, Thumper the Bunny and Flower the Skunk.
The OG Bambi, though, was a much darker story. In this tale, a young deer struggles to survive not only his mother’s killing, but constant attacks and unrelenting cruelty by humans from outside the forest.
The Nazi Party banned and then burned Bambi in 1935, saying it was “the work of an undesirable,” and a political allegory on the treatment of Jews in Europe.
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