“Young people, where is your sense of self? Mickey Mouse is the shabbiest, most miserable ideal ever invented. Mickey Mouse is a recipe for mental enfeeblement. Healthy instinct should tell every decent girl and decent boy that those filthy, dirt-caked vermin, the greatest carriers of bacteria in the animal kingdom, cannot be made into an ideal animal type. [...] Down with Mickey Mouse, and up with the swastika!”
Nazi propaganda circa 1931, via the wildly fascinating A Mickey Mouse Reader
