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<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\nNEW YORK \u2014 Long before becoming a beloved children\u2019s author, Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel wielded his pen for more sober reasons: He wanted to alert the American public to the horrors of the Third Reich.<\/p>\n
In fact, Geisel belonged to a small but determined cadre of American editorial cartoonists who, as early as 1933, sounded the alarm about Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Now the work of these legendary cartoonists is featured in Dr. Rafael Medoff and Craig Yoe\u2019s new book, \u201cCartoonists Against the Holocaust.\u201d<\/p>\n
But beyond resurrecting these cartoons from history\u2019s margins, the book upends the narrative that Americans were unaware of the mounting barbarism.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a popular misconception that what Hitler was doing was not known to the American public until the camps were liberated,\u201d Dr. Rafael Medoff, founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, told The Times of Israel. \u201cWhen you look at the newspaper coverage at the time you see a great deal was known long before that. And the number of editorial cartoons further illustrates how widely known Hitler\u2019s atrocities were before the end of the war.\u201d<\/p>\n
That cartoonists addressed the threat of Nazi Germany so early fits in with how they view their role in society, said Yoe, an Eisner Award-winning comics historian and the former creative director for Jim Henson\u2019s Muppets and Nickelodeon.<\/p>\n