It should be safe, then. "About Reynard the Fox" exists in two versions, both set in the Middle Ages. Van Genechten's 1941 novel (or novella; it was 98 pages) illustrated the animals of the Animal Kingdom as natural (but talking) four-legged, unclothed European forest beasts infiltrated by the scheming Jewish rhinoceroses. The Dutch animated cartoon, finished in 1943 but unseen until 2006 because the Nazis took the finished film negative to Berlin where it was lost during the 1945 fall of Berlin and only rediscovered recently, has the animals anthropomorphized as bipedal and wearing clothes, but medieval-style clothing. No swastikas, solar crosses, or anything else visually associated with the Nazi or Dutch NSB regimes. (In fact, the Nazis officially objected that Baron Reynard the fox was too solidly established through centuries of legends as a thief, liar, cheat, murderer, betrayer, and all-around villain to make a proper modern Nazi role-model.)
It should be safe, then. "About Reynard the Fox" exists in two versions, both set in the Middle Ages. Van Genechten's 1941 novel (or novella; it was 98 pages) illustrated the animals of the Animal Kingdom as natural (but talking) four-legged, unclothed European forest beasts infiltrated by the scheming Jewish rhinoceroses. The Dutch animated cartoon, finished in 1943 but unseen until 2006 because the Nazis took the finished film negative to Berlin where it was lost during the 1945 fall of Berlin and only rediscovered recently, has the animals anthropomorphized as bipedal and wearing clothes, but medieval-style clothing. No swastikas, solar crosses, or anything else visually associated with the Nazi or Dutch NSB regimes. (In fact, the Nazis officially objected that Baron Reynard the fox was too solidly established through centuries of legends as a thief, liar, cheat, murderer, betrayer, and all-around villain to make a proper modern Nazi role-model.)
Fred Patten