A thousand to one says this is where Ian Fleming got Ernst Stavro Blofeld's pseudonym in YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE. I've never tried to read May--I gather he's about as readable, or not, as Fenimore Cooper--but his popularity is amazing.
This is extremely unfair and blatantly wrong. May was a pacifist and deplored the demise of the American Indian. How on earth can such a view have been an inspiration to Hitler. May would have condemned Hitler's policies without hesitation. This article is academic nonsense with a catchy title.
By the way, there are some good modern translations that make the Winnetou books very readable by modernizing the old style German phrasing of the originals. Remarkably, there were no English translations until about 10 years ago, but these are now also becoming available (see Amazon).
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Ooh, ooh, I know. Karl May, right?
A thousand to one says this is where Ian Fleming got Ernst Stavro Blofeld's pseudonym in YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE. I've never tried to read May--I gather he's about as readable, or not, as Fenimore Cooper--but his popularity is amazing.
This is extremely unfair and blatantly wrong. May was a pacifist and deplored the demise of the American Indian. How on earth can such a view have been an inspiration to Hitler. May would have condemned Hitler's policies without hesitation. This article is academic nonsense with a catchy title.
By the way, there are some good modern translations that make the Winnetou books very readable by modernizing the old style German phrasing of the originals. Remarkably, there were no English translations until about 10 years ago, but these are now also becoming available (see Amazon).
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