Dr. "Kill Those Axis Scum" Seuss

Dr. Seuss, if you somehow don't know, is an accomplished children's book writer and cartoonist. He has 46 books published, some of which you may have heard of. He's the man behind The Lorax, Fox in Socks, The Cat in the Hat, and many more radical children's books.

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But those are the works of Dr. Seuss, one of many pseudonyms donned by Theodor Seuss Geisel (note the lack of the "Dr." prefix). Before Horton heard Whos, when green eggs and ham were considered unsanitary, and before the Nazis invaded Poland, Geisel wrote about proper boat lubrication. Contracted by General Oil, Geisel's first widely read literary achievement was a 30-page motorboat-care booklet entitled Secrets of the Deep. 

And then World War II started.

And little boat-polishing Geisel was no more.

Geisel was transformed into a colossal, furious, patriotic, and blatantly racist tornado. Which in the corse of a couple years, spit out more than 400 pro-war propaganda pieces. And that was before anyone even asked him to. In 1942, he joined the US army as commander of the animation department of the First Motion Picture Unit (yes that was a thing). Once in power, he spewed out even more anti-axis propaganda. This included such films as Your Job in Germany, Private Snafu, and Our Job in Japan (the latter of which won the Academy Award for best Short Film). 

Here's one of his masterpieces, a four minute long episode of Private Snafu entitled The Goldbrick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCMVpFUWXq4

Here are also a couple of my favorite cartoons:

"Would you kill Hitler in a box?"

"Would you kill them with some socks?"

After the war (and after receiving several prestigious awards for his Anti-japanese works), Geisel moved to California with his wife and started writing children's books. And the rest is history.