Monday, August 22, 2016

The Cowboy Novels that Obsessed Hitler


BY Alan Gilbert
 
The adventure stories of Karl May set in the American Southwest have charmed millions of Germans, but especially Hitler, who patterned Nazi policies on their plots.

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  1. It would pay any reader of Westerns to have a look at The Inconvenient Indian, by Thomas King (2012). It throws a whole new light on print and film portrayals of cowboys and Indians.

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