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Re: anti-German feeling of JV

From: volker dehs <volker.dehs~at~web.de>
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 12:59:50 +0200
To: "JulesVerneForum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

> I am not trying to feed the fire, and even if the
> subject can feel a little bit worrying, I know that
> the german goverment of 1940-ies (I prefer to blame
> them and not the german people) banned the Begum-novel
> as "non-german litterature".

I think it's right, but I have in my collection a copy of the first german traduction of "Begum" (Hartleben, published for the first time in 1879 and quite good with only a few omissions) which was lent in the ... SS-Library of Vienna. Hard to explain, but a fact.
>
> But I have a question: Was Michel Vernes movie "Begums
> 500..." supposed to be used for political reasons in
> the last years of the WW1? I know the war was over
> when the movie was ready, but anyway..? I guess the
> novel was still used as a horn in side of the germans.
>
That's a good question, and I think it's a possible explanation for Michel's choice. Unfortunately, the film has not yet be found and searching commentaries in the newspapers is hard to realize...

With kind regards

-- 
Volker Dehs, Am Mühlengraben 10, D-37083 Göttingen. Tel.: 0162 / 47 38 630
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