From what I have read about "About Reynard the Fox", it leaves no doubt that all of the things that it says about rhinos being lying, scheming, cheating, fawning, untrustworthy animals are transparent attacks against the Jewish people. There are blatant descriptions of the rhinos' nose-horns in identical terms with the Nazi caricatures of big-nosed Jews. The German Nazis officially rejected it because the International Jewish Menace (along with Racial Purity, which is also parodied) was much too serious a topic to be treated as satire; some people might think that it was the Nazi party line about the Jewish Menace that was being ridiculed rather than the Jews themselves.
(The Nazis just plain didn't trust satire.)
From what I have read about "About Reynard the Fox", it leaves no doubt that all of the things that it says about rhinos being lying, scheming, cheating, fawning, untrustworthy animals are transparent attacks against the Jewish people. There are blatant descriptions of the rhinos' nose-horns in identical terms with the Nazi caricatures of big-nosed Jews. The German Nazis officially rejected it because the International Jewish Menace (along with Racial Purity, which is also parodied) was much too serious a topic to be treated as satire; some people might think that it was the Nazi party line about the Jewish Menace that was being ridiculed rather than the Jews themselves.
(The Nazis just plain didn't trust satire.)
Fred Patten