(Times of Israel) Cathryn J. Prince - Long before becoming a beloved children's author, Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) belonged to a cadre of American editorial cartoonists who, as early as 1933, sounded the alarm about Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Their work is featured in Dr. Rafael Medoff and Craig Yoe's new book, Cartoonists Against the Holocaust, which upends the narrative that Americans were unaware of the mounting barbarism. "The number of editorial cartoons...illustrates how widely known Hitler's atrocities were before the end of the war," said Medoff, founding director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.
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