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Jings: Oor Wullie on Nazi hit list.......see - http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/57712.html
Probably one of my favourite stories of the year so far:
Jings: Oor Wullie on Nazi hit list.......
| Quote: | They hardly ranked with the other political protagonists that the Nazis destined for the firing squad such as George Orwell, but Oor Wullie's creators were also listed for execution, a TV documentary suggests.
They were put on a Nazi hit list because Wullie continually poked fun at Hitler in his comic strip. The schoolboy pelted suspected Nazis with catapults and cap-guns and even formed a boys' national defence corps to take on the "Gerries".
He also dealt with food shortages and blackouts and raised funds for the Red Cross during the second world war to do his bit for his country.
Now a documentary, celebrating Wullie's 70th birthday, claims that illustrator Dudley D Watkins and DC Thomson managing director Robert D Low were targeted for their jibes.
The pair, who regularly featured the Fuhrer in the strips, were monitored by Hitler's regime and were found on a hit list for having "gross disrespect".
According to the Imperial War Museum's book, Invasion 1940, the Nazi Invasion Plan, the Sonderfahnungliste GB was the blacklist of individuals singled out for arrest and imprisonment as enemies of the Reich if the Nazis had won the war. It was considered that to be one of the 2280 on the list was to be under sentence of death.
The BBC programme reveals: "If there was one person for whom Wullie reserved a special hatred it was the Nazi leader himself, Adolf Hitler.
"Again and again Wullie would insult the name of the dictator, so much so that after the war Wullie's guardians, Robert D Low and Dudley D Watkins, were allegedly discovered on a Nazi hit list for gross disrespect to the Fuhrer."
The spiky-haired boy first appeared on March 8, 1936, and has since starred in 3600 comic strips and 31 annuals. A hardback version of the first Oor Wullie book, published in 1941, recently sold at auction for £4015.
The mischievous schoolboy became so popular he even saw off competition from William Wallace and Sean Connery to be named top Scots icon of all time.
In the programme to mark the anniversary, editor David Donaldson, artist Peter Davidson, and writer Tom Morton reveal the secrets behind keeping Wullie's spirit alive. They admit that they have had to tailor his antics for modern life by banning catapults, some of Wullie's most dangerous tricks and making him an ex-smoker.
Happy Birthday Oor Wullie is on BBC One Scotland tomorrow at 9.30pm |
Somebody gona' tape this for me?
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Wolf of Badenoch
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"Jings,crivvens an help ma boab"
Oor Wullie wid hae been mair than a match for wee Adolf. 
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Celyn
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Heheheh. Catapults and cap-guns, Oh my!  Imagine Oor Wullie showiung "gross disrespect". Shock, horror, help ma boab.
I don't think I was even sure that "Oor Wullie" was still going, since a life without the "Sunday Post" is so much nicer than one with, but I suppose I'm glad he is. (And I'm suddenly wondering if wee Jeemie the mouse is still around)
Is Tom Morton really writing it now? Jings, I should go and take a look - it'll be full of motorbikes and whisky and guitars.
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